Kids driving tractors?
23 July 2010, 02:42 PM
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Kids driving tractors?
I would have thought you need a license to drive a tractor especially on the road?
Today the road is full of kids (and i really mean kids) in tractors and quads!
Today the road is full of kids (and i really mean kids) in tractors and quads!
23 July 2010, 02:48 PM
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If you are 16 and learning to drive a tractor, you are allowed to drive on the road only when you are going to or from a driving test.
Also if you are 16 & driving a tractor it must be less than 2.45m wide. It must only pull trailers less than 2.45m wide with two wheels, or four close coupled.
You have to be 17 to drive larger tractors than that.
Also if you are 16 & driving a tractor it must be less than 2.45m wide. It must only pull trailers less than 2.45m wide with two wheels, or four close coupled.
You have to be 17 to drive larger tractors than that.
23 July 2010, 02:51 PM
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Yeah my mate in sixth form used to drive a tractor before he could a car.
Jamz3k... Was it a convoy? Or were you being followed by a load of wreckless youths in tractors? Lol
Jamz3k... Was it a convoy? Or were you being followed by a load of wreckless youths in tractors? Lol
23 July 2010, 02:58 PM
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the ******* are buzzing up and down the road. One particulary tractor is fooking massive and being driven by a wee fella that is nowhere near being 16/17.
23 July 2010, 03:00 PM
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Maybe they fancy their chances in a race with you?
23 July 2010, 03:07 PM
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23 July 2010, 03:22 PM
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I used to live very close to Ballycarry many many moons ago and I can tell you that I was driving tractors on Caldwell's farm.
I seen me driving 4WD tractors with 16 tonne of silage on the back on country roads from the age of 13
Farmer also had me driving in fields during hay time and I was only 11 or 12
Now thats scarey
23 July 2010, 03:29 PM
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Started driving at the age of 12, by 14 I was hauling silage trailers with hand operated hydraulic brakes!.
The age 14 stick in my mind, I think that may be the recommended age to drive in a field.
The age 14 stick in my mind, I think that may be the recommended age to drive in a field.
23 July 2010, 04:15 PM
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me and my brother have been driving tractors since we were about 10, its good fun. he carried on into farming and i just bought some old ones to restore now as i'm a bit older. you can't beat the sound of a turbo charged leyland other then an impreza.
23 July 2010, 10:52 PM
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Motoring at its cheapest, mine is £78 pa to insure fully comp any driver, (you insure the tractor not the driver), FREE road tax, NO MOT required and runs on red. Tractors are the future !
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also if you want a quick tractor and can't afford a newer one, leylands are the ones. my 384 will do 35 mph and my 804 will do 32, though there is a 272h that is the high speed tractor, fifth gear is locked out but if your handy with some tools; speeds of up to 46 mph are available. god i'm a sad ****** lol.
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James fella,
I used to live very close to Ballycarry many many moons ago and I can tell you that I was driving tractors on Caldwell's farm.
I seen me driving 4WD tractors with 16 tonne of silage on the back on country roads from the age of 13
Farmer also had me driving in fields during hay time and I was only 11 or 12
Now thats scarey
I used to live very close to Ballycarry many many moons ago and I can tell you that I was driving tractors on Caldwell's farm.
I seen me driving 4WD tractors with 16 tonne of silage on the back on country roads from the age of 13
Farmer also had me driving in fields during hay time and I was only 11 or 12
Now thats scarey
was pretty cool being twelve/thirteen, looking back just a little scarey!
24 July 2010, 05:13 PM
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Yep Paul - the good old days when it was **** health and safety
When I think back to what I was doing I often think I quite easily could not be here today.
Drawing silage back to the farm, drive up to silage pit and reverse back to the pit which at the start when empty was a 35 foot drop
Empty trailer and start all over again
When I think back to what I was doing I often think I quite easily could not be here today.
Drawing silage back to the farm, drive up to silage pit and reverse back to the pit which at the start when empty was a 35 foot drop
Empty trailer and start all over again
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