Kids driving tractors?
 

I would have thought you need a license to drive a tractor especially on the road?:wonder:

Today the road is full of kids (and i really mean kids) in tractors and quads!

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.

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

Followed:wonder:

He was being overtaken:lol1::lol1::lol1:

I was out washing my car!:lol1: the feckers 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.

Simple answer, they did half a day at school, got pissed, and are now racing tractors up and down your street.

Maybe they fancy their chances in a race with you?

My money is on the John Deere:D

(The Alfa would probably break down before the finish line:lol1:)

well thats gonna be a fail on their part nowt beats the 1.6 TwinSPANK Alfa............other than a screwed to the ballix D-Turbo.:p

:razz::lol1:

Pmsl!!

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 :eek:
Farmer also had me driving in fields during hay time and I was only 11 or 12
Now thats scarey :D

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.

I take it they need to be insured at the very least to be on the road?

Don't know then but I would really like to think so - I was only a wee lad and just wanted to drive
B@stard farmer took advantage of that eagerness too

"OOO-ARR"

Look - should you not be at the dentist now :)
Get him to put you to sleep for the procedure, then when you wake up you'll have a sore @rse to go with your sore teeth :D

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.

We used to do tractor racing on the road :D.
They were 2 old Ford 4000's with hand throttles, wind them right up and try to launch them.

You really had to hold on for grim death though or else you'd have fallen out the back :lol1:

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 !

D

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 fecker lol.

I used to earn pocket money working through the summer holiday driving and operating a JCB and assorted dumper trucks including a 3.5 tonner like this one
http://www.wattsauctions.co.uk/Archi..._dumper_03.jpg

was pretty cool being twelve/thirteen, looking back just a little scarey!

Yep Paul - the good old days when it was fcuk health and safety :D
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 :eek:
Empty trailer and start all over again