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Tractor safety cage law?

  • 27-04-2014 5:44pm
    #1
    roadsmart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know where this is mentioned in the law? Is there an exemption for vintage? There's a fairly solid one on the 35, but it's awkward and unsightly and I'd like to take it off.


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  • #2
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    roadsmart wrote: »
    Anyone know where this is mentioned in the law? Is there an exemption for vintage? There's a fairly solid one on the 35, but it's awkward and unsightly and I'd like to take it off.

    Where-upon the Gards will take a dim view and summons you. From bitter experience. :)


  • #3
    roadsmart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    Yeah, that's why I was looking for the legislation in relation to it.


  • #4
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    According to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (Deputy Leo Varadkar) in the Oireachtas on Thursday, 17 October 2013:
    It is important to address any perception that there are no safety standards in place for vintage tractors. On the contrary, the Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1969 require all tractors used in a public place, irrespective of age, to have roll-over protective structures of an appropriate standard fitted.
    Full text here:
    http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/(indexlookupseanad)/20131017~U?opendocument

    Here's the legislation:
    S.I. No. 138/1969 - Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1969


  • #5
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,440 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    roadsmart wrote: »
    Yeah, that's why I was looking for the legislation in relation to it.

    Handiest way to find out is to go for a spin without one and see what section they summons/fine you under. Or have the tractor roll-over on you and take the squish-test. Why not just build a better-looking roll-bar?


  • #6
    roadsmart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    @rovi, Excellent info, thanks!


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  • #7
    roadsmart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    I notice that the legislation doesn't apply to pre-1970 tractors. Did he get it wrong about vintage tractors?


    (a) on and after the 1st September, 1970 to tractors which are registered on or after the 1st day of September, 1970, and

    Edit: Doh! It wasn't Varadkar that got it wrong, it was me! Yup, applies to all tractors under 7 1/4 tons since sept 1977.


  • #8
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    roadsmart wrote: »
    I notice that the legislation doesn't apply to pre-1970 tractors. Did he get it wrong about vintage tractors?


    (a) on and after the 1st September, 1970 to tractors which are registered on or after the 1st day of September, 1970, and

    Nope.

    Read on to paragraph (b):
    (b) on and after the 1st September, 1977 to every tractor.

    The EXPLANATORY NOTE at the end explains:
    The Regulations apply in two stages : — (a) initially to tractors registered for the first time on or after 1st September, 1970, and (b) as from 1st September, 1977 to older tractors.


    Effectively, it required all new tractors from 1970 to have ROPS, and gave 7 years for older stuff to be retrofitted.


  • #9
    roadsmart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    Yeah, copped that after.


  • #10
    roadsmart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    Thank you for your input, but the question was about the law, not the safety aspect of which I am well aware.


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