Tractor on Motorway(before court)

niamhocxox

Juniorhurler wrote: »

Wexico? I presume you are a dub living in Wexford so. I am a farmer from Wexford and resent this stereotyping. If I came on here saying all dubs were the cause of all of our anti social behaviour in North Wexford you would be outraged, so please don't stereotype.

By the way when I dirty a road I drive back along it with a tanker of clean water and wash the road. I do this when I am finished. This means the road may be dirty for a day but will be cleaned as I cannot do my work and clean the road at the same time.

+ 1 to that anyway!

I hate people who paint all farmers with the same brush, some do clean up after thenselves you know!

-Corkie-

Berty wrote: »

Stay on the N roads and R roads. The Motorways were not built for your ease of travel.

Better idea,stay in the fields where they belong.

taintabird

squod wrote: »

A tractor pulling a low loader was said to be doing 70mph while escaping Guarda on the M1 close to Collen in todays paper. Obviously some tractor can move it when they want to.

you will find that's 70 kph which is 43.5 mph

-Corkie-

taintabird wrote: »

you will find that's 70 kph which is 43.5 mph

Maybe it was this tractor.....:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lmE17Dg23w

taintabird

Kilmac1 wrote: »

well put it this way to you barney do you eat beef? and drink milk?

He probably does but thats got nothing to do with farmers it just magically appears on the supermarket shelf

slimjimmc

vetstu wrote: »

You're wrong!. Modern tractors can have 50k boxes in them. There is no law saying you can't do below 50 on a motorway, just that the vehicle must be capable of doing it.

You mis-read Berty's post, he said "The tractor is NOT allowed on the Motorway(below km/h ability)", which is the same point as you made only he didn't mention a figure. That means he was 100% spot on correct just like you.

jimmyw

Kilmac1 wrote: »

well put it this way to you barney do you eat beef? and drink milk?

I think that is going off topic, we know they have a living to make and we do need farmers, but they do sometimes leave a mess.

Crasp wrote: »

I'm not taking sides here at all.




But on a motorbike, the mud/**** that comes out from fields and continues for a half a mile down the road is as bad as ice. I mean there is no grip on that surface. Especially in the wet.


It's not just farmers, you get the same mud at construction sites.

And potholes neglected by the council are also a very serious hazard on a bike.



It's just to inform farmers that the mud is a serious hazard. you wouldn't notice it in a car, and it would be easy to think "ah, it'll be fine" but really there is no stopping a bike on that mud, you'll be off and under the wheel of a lorry before you know it.

Absolutely, they are not the only ones to mess up the roads, but Farmers around my area just don't give a hoot.

-Corkie- wrote: »

Better idea,stay in the fields where they belong.

Thats rubbish, they have to go out on the roads sometime to get to other fields etc.They cant drive through the ditches, can they:D

I always thought that tractors were not allowed on motorways at all, but I have found out that they can if they are capable of at least 50kph.

http://www.rulesoftheroad.ie/pdf-downloads/english/rules-of-the-road%20eng.pdf
Page 119

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/site/farming-Rules-of-the-road-for-farming-to-change-12434.html

And no I am not a farmer







That tractor in the video on this thread is certainly a death trap

barney 20v

Juniorhurler wrote: »

Wexico? I presume you are a dub living in Wexford so. I am a farmer from Wexford and resent this stereotyping. If I came on here saying all dubs were the cause of all of our anti social behaviour in North Wexford you would be outraged, so please don't stereotype.

By the way when I dirty a road I drive back along it with a tanker of clean water and wash the road. I do this when I am finished. This means the road may be dirty for a day but will be cleaned as I cannot do my work and clean the road at the same time.

Firstly i am 100% born and reared in rural Wexford .... secondly,
"This means the road may be dirty for a day but will be cleaned as I cannot do my work and clean the road at the same time" substitute DIRTY for DANGEROUS and you have the truth of the matter.... it is unlawful for ANYONE to create dangerous conditions on the public roads.. why are ye farmers any different?
The situation in Wexford has improved since the sugar beet disappeared ...no longer do the drivers of Wexford have to navigate over roads covered in 3-4 inches of muck while an agri contractor loads beet over ditches into lorries parked illegally blocking the public roads with no signs to warn of danger!

Finally, you can try insult me to brush over the truth you know i am writing but this is coming from someone who has lived in the countryside all my life...
i am fully aware where my food comes from..... but i am also fully aware of the illegal activities of those who produce it!

slimjimmc

Isn't this debate about tractors dragging dirt onto roads irrelevant to the topic of tractors on motorways? By the time a tractor gets onto a motorway all the dirt has already flung off

Kilmac1

-Corkie- wrote: »

Better idea,stay in the fields where they belong.

then you'll complain cause youve no milk for your tea or breakfast and no meat.

seaniefr

barney 20v wrote: »

Firstly i am 100% born and reared in rural Wexford .... secondly,
"This means the road may be dirty for a day but will be cleaned as I cannot do my work and clean the road at the same time" substitute DIRTY for DANGEROUS and you have the truth of the matter.... it is unlawful for ANYONE to create dangerous conditions on the public roads.. why are ye farmers any different?
The situation in Wexford has improved since the sugar beet disappeared ...no longer do the drivers of Wexford have to navigate over roads covered in 3-4 inches of muck while an agri contractor loads beet over ditches into lorries parked illegally blocking the public roads with no signs to warn of danger!

Finally, you can try insult me to brush over the truth you know i am writing but this is coming from someone who has lived in the countryside all my life...
i am fully aware where my food comes from..... but i am also fully aware of the illegal activities of those who produce it!

Guys! Girls!
relax will ye 'cause by the time the EU/IMF are finished with us none of ye will have a pot to piss in and it will all be solved because ye will all be walking!

Muckie

Kilmac1 wrote: »

then you'll complain cause youve no milk for your tea or breakfast and no meat.

Have the produce transported by trucks as its meant to be.

Father was nearly killed a few years ago, when he's van skidded on muck that had fozen over outside the entrance to a field.

When we came to collect he's totalled van from the ditch, the area where
it had skidded had been cleaned :mad:

Kilmac1

Muckie wrote: »

Have the produce transported by trucks as its meant to be.

how we suppose to spread slurry and cut silage?

barney 20v

barney 20v wrote: »

Firstly i am 100% born and reared in rural Wexford .... secondly,
"This means the road may be dirty for a day but will be cleaned as I cannot do my work and clean the road at the same time" substitute DIRTY for DANGEROUS and you have the truth of the matter.... it is unlawful for ANYONE to create dangerous conditions on the public roads.. why are ye farmers any different?
The situation in Wexford has improved since the sugar beet disappeared ...no longer do the drivers of Wexford have to navigate over roads covered in 3-4 inches of muck while an agri contractor loads beet over ditches into lorries parked illegally blocking the public roads with no signs to warn of danger!

Finally, you can try insult me to brush over the truth you know i am writing but this is coming from someone who has lived in the countryside all my life...
i am fully aware where my food comes from..... but i am also fully aware of the illegal activities of those who produce it!

Look we all know its not ideal but if you knew anything about farming you would know that its 100% impossible to keep the road perfectly clean all the time if you are doing work between fields etc, be realistic.

-Corkie-

Kilmac1 wrote: »

then you'll complain cause youve no milk for your tea or breakfast and no meat.

Trucks with the proper Licence and paying proper taxes can transport this.

vetstu

Yeah, the trucks always transported it, but where does it come from??Duhh

Crasp

vetstu wrote: »

Yeah, the trucks always transported it, but where does it come from??Duhh

well not from motorways anyway.

-Corkie-

vetstu wrote: »

Yeah, the trucks always transported it, but where does it come from??Duhh

A cow????;)

Kilmac1

-Corkie- wrote: »

A cow????;)

ayee but the cow needs silage and meal which come from fields with need fertiliser and slurry!!! to make the grass grow!!!!

-Corkie-

Kilmac1 wrote: »

ayee but the cow needs silage and meal which come from fields with need fertiliser and slurry!!! to make the grass grow!!!!

LOL. True I was having a laugh at the other post. If I hated tractors and farmers I would be fecked..:)

littletiger

Saw a tractor heading north on the M9 this morning not far from the start of the Waterford end. He was straddling both the hard shoulder and inside lane. Seemed very dangerous to me.