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Mark Rand17/08/2020 21:12:02
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8.8 Vehicles used between different parts of the land

You may use red diesel in your vehicle if it is used on public roads only when moving between different areas of land occupied by the same person, for purposes relating to agriculture, horticulture or forestry, as long as this does not involve travelling on public roads for more than 1.5 kilometres.

Your vehicle must also have a ‘nil licence’, being an exempt vehicle for the purposes of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994.

Steviegtr17/08/2020 21:20:12
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My Son is one of the offenders. Hat backwards too. He is 33 next. He has been stopped once in Harrogate & got told off. He has now after many years taken it from the Sun visor & has a semi legal one on the front of his car.

Steve.

Mike Poole17/08/2020 22:59:37
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**LINK**

The tractor boy video, some bad language if you prefer to avoid.

Mike

oldvelo18/08/2020 00:12:09
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Saw a while back a photo of a whole lot of cap on back to front brigade at a motor race meeting in late afternoon sunshine holding up a hand to shade their eyes. Explains a lot.

Eric

Danny M2Z18/08/2020 06:41:13
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Posted by oldvelo on 18/08/2020 00:12:09:

Saw a while back a photo of a whole lot of cap on back to front brigade at a motor race meeting in late afternoon sunshine holding up a hand to shade their eyes. Explains a lot.

Eric

Did they arrive on skateboards?

Anthony Knights18/08/2020 07:54:38
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The question is

1 Does wearing it back to front lower the IQ? or

2 Is the persons IQ such, that they cannot work out which way round it goes?

Having said that, I have on rare occasions worn one with the peak at the back, purely to keep the sun off my neck.

Jon Lawes18/08/2020 09:27:45
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I sometimes wonder what puts young people off this hobby?

Then I read the whining ramblings on here.

not done it yet18/08/2020 10:01:56
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Posted by Jon Lawes on 18/08/2020 09:27:45:

I sometimes wonder what puts young people off this hobby?

Then I read the whining ramblings on here.

‘If the cap fits, wear it’ is an age old saying. As good now as it was 40/50 years ago, I would suggest?

My wife always says those that use fog lights (when the weather is perfectly clear) are just trying to boost their ego - to try to make up for deficiencies elsewhere...🙂

I often remind people that, by definition, half the population is below average.🙂 Even brain surgeons can be hopeless at some things. ‘Horses for courses’ and all that.

Hopper18/08/2020 10:29:46
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Posted by Anthony Knights on 18/08/2020 07:54:38:

The question is

1 Does wearing it back to front lower the IQ? or

2 Is the persons IQ such, that they cannot work out which way round it goes?

Having said that, I have on rare occasions worn one with the peak at the back, purely to keep the sun off my neck.

Well, ya wouldnt wanna be a redneck!

Anthony Knights18/08/2020 10:33:35
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ye-haaa to that!

Robert Atkinson 218/08/2020 10:58:59
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My pet motoring peeves are:

LED replacement bulbs (not applicable to vintage vehicles Tim) beeing promoted and espcially those who say "i've got them and my car pased the MOT so it must be OK"

Deletion of emissions control equipment on modern diesels. For example EGR valve blanking n DPF removal. Supposed to be checked by MOT but the testes not even allowed to pull the plastic cover off the top of the engine so how is he supposed to know? Agian lots of people proting this on car forums and denying that it's illegal.

If you wnat to know the law on trailers etc go to a carnival and ask a driver. Their packed up rides and caravans often push the regulations to the mm and kg limits
Trailer laws don't apply to "mobile plant" so when looking to transport one of my larger gas turbines on a Sankey trailer (don't meet current regulations) beind the land rover I just took the trailer body off and bolted the engine to the chassis - mobile plant (compressor / generator) problem solved. And I did get asked once, soon as I said mobile plant the copper backed off muttering to himself.

Robert G8RPI.

Hopper18/08/2020 11:11:54
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Is that legal?

Bazyle18/08/2020 11:16:13
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So how big a generator constitutes mobile plant? Presumably such plant could have a toolbox, say 6ft x 4ft just behind it.
re agricultural vehicles (small) are there differences between say a Fowler B1 with its ploughing gear and a Robey road locomotive?

Robert Atkinson 218/08/2020 13:43:58
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Posted by Hopper on 18/08/2020 11:11:54:

Is that legal?

If you are refering to the "mobile Plant" it is (was at least, it was about 16 years ago). The response of the copper indicated to me that he was aware of the "loophole" and annoyed that I had found it. If Mobile plant had "storage" commonsense is that it would be for items required for operation of the plant. It would be a matter for the courts to determine if a marginal case was mobile plant or trailer. The GTCP-85 filled the whole Sankey Chssis and only had storage for the air delivery hose so not much argument.

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