This week's classic tractor I'm not buying

If it's in Ireland for a while it may have been imported without paying vat in the UK another reason the registration book went missing.

Only looks to have 1 D/A spool available on it as the 2nd is allocated to the PUH.

Any reports from the bord na mona auction at the weekend?

The 1 picture is from a distance so hard to tell condition but with a loader not bad value

The reg plate may not be the issue. It may have been imported with no vat paid, lads used to bring them accross at Larne and bring them south. I am.judt surprised if it was that easy why the dealer did not do it.

If anybody buys it they would want to make sure they got a detailed receipt showing UK reg and chassis number, not just make and model.

Vat

The problem comes when you need or want the tractor at home for a few jobs or in a field down the road.

Ive an old 165 tgats not registered. Nearly cursing it as it cant be used anywhere bar home.

Have a road registered quad thats the handiest thing in the world to run down the rosd to check cattle , spread a few bags of fertiliser, do a bit of spraying. It wouldnt get the use it does if it had to be loaded onto a trailer to be moved around

Compared to the 35 from a few days ago this looks reasonable

I still couldnt do it to myself .

It still seems like a lot of bother getting the machinery across to it .

Assuming you have a good trailer to start with, there always seems to be something on the trailer here when you want it or its blocked in , so unload the trailer, load up the piece of equipment you want . Strap it down, then drive on.

Then invariably, what you want is always at the wrong farm.

I'd end up buying 2 of everything .

A friend has nearly exactly the scenario you have described.

120 acre farm taken 30 miles from home. He has an unregistered tractor at the farm as the farm tractor for all the reasons you state above but finds it an aweful drawback not being able to take it on the road.

Simple things like needing to do a run to the coop for cattle nuts .having to bring a trailer constantly for those jobs is annoying

Things that have caught him in the past. Tractor deciding not to start , having to go off and get jump leads or a new battery or a neighbour to tow start him. Tractor running low on diesel and drawing diesel to it in 5 gallon drums. Drums leaking in boot of car and missus giving out constantly about the smell. Tyre flat when he arrived and no compresser to pump it

Main tractor at home bresks down and has to borrow a tractor and low loader to bring home the unregistered tractor to do silage or slurry or to feed cattle.

As he says himself, its an aweful disadvantage not being able to take it on the road. For when he is at silage at home he reckons it would speed up things a huge smount by having the extra tractor available so as not having to be changing over implements constantly slurry too, in a thick tank, constantly swapping over the agitator and tank to take out a few loads of slurry and drawing water in.

We wouldnt have a lowloader here and wouldnt like borrowing stuff .

Ive seen the disadvantages first hand and couldnt do it to myself

Could ye get a same model from a breaker yard and use that tax book and even change the plate

Cloning the tractor ?

Ahh people do it but i wouldnt be inclined to.

Firstly its illegal.

Secondly I asked advice from a guard about doing that at one stage , he said its if or when there is an accident you are in trouble , the insurance company do a bit of investigation and refuse to payout as thats not the tractor they have insured. Could get done for fraud.

Thirdly what if someone else had the same idea with the same number plate, old logbooks do turn up. Suddenly 2 tractors on the same plate

Lastly i wouldnt go mentioning doing that here. You could get banned

Out of curiosity is the trailer braked.

I have an unbraked 6 x 4 here too. Weights at a guess 200kg. Max she can take legally is 550kg . I can take a ton behind the car with the twin axel ifor i have

The Rsa have a spot on the main road beside us where they are always camped out, any tractor , lorry or car and trailer gets pulled over for an inspection . A share of stuff gets seized with them

Ive taken a ton bag of sand in mine too on a short trip.

Interestingly enough my poor 165 with a bar type quickie loader was just able to lift it off the trailer.

A but of googling later, ton bsgs of sand have 800 to 900kg of sand in them depending on how wet they are.

To be honest, around me there are a fair few big farmers who do all their own baling

Tut tut

I know a man that bought a brand new Primera in 1994. He had her 2 weeks and the son hit a railway bridge doing a fair lock. He bought a 1 year old identical one in the UK and put her on the plates of the crashed one. He never had any issue until the NCT arrived. He couldn't sort it and ended up scrapping the car.

Absolutely

We had a few ringers about the place prior to nct days. Say there’s half dozen sets of old northern plates in the shed.

dad was always jumping stuff across the border, was very lucrative at times.