He doesn't want a metal floor to avoid this problem which he doesn't currently have..
Not sure what the council would say about 16 tons skewing round on a road.. plus it wouldn't be road registered? ?
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He doesn't want a metal floor to avoid this problem which he doesn't currently have..
Not sure what the council would say about 16 tons skewing round on a road.. plus it wouldn't be road registered? ?
S410 sorry not really answered my question I know what he is asking for and why, but my thought was how much money would it cost to get the machine road legal if its possible, it might be it cannot be made road legal well that would finish that thought, but if it could and cheaply would that not be easier? a 60+ton main battle tank is road legal, just need the correct licence! and they do slip very easily???
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times id need to move on a public road so tracking down it wouldnt be a good plan, round here an odd one would chance it on a quiet road but i try to avoid it personally, most times its best to load up and move.
to leave it that i could travel on the road id have to fit rubber pads to the tracks, they clamp on but are big coin even secondhand and i wouldnt use them tbh as they would leave her with less traction for field work where most of my work is.
for long enough any numpty could get up on a digger and drive it, they still can round their own place but anything over that your supposed to have the paperwork.
id have the license alright, and a safe pass and a ticket for the digger too which is about to expire iirc but i wont be bothering to renew it as 90% of that work has died down so its back to cleaning land now, when i do take the notion.
i thought i had a better pic of her but this one will have to do, it ill give you an idea.
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yeah, same license.
i have everything bar an artic license and a bike one below a certain cc, never got round to doing the artic one but always would of liked to have done it, but with all the crap involved in keeping it even if i had it its way too much for someone that wants to do an odd run.
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60+ton main battle tank is road legal but has rubber padded tracks this doesn't
it's a 360% digger could never be made road legal on steel tracks
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you can get these types of pads for steel tracks, but as i was saying before they are very dear even secondhand.
that would cover the track end of it but there would still be a list of other things needing sorted id imagine to be close to road legal.
i dont be on the road much at all other than loading, unloading or crossing it as if the wrong lad came upon you it could get dear but in saying that ive never heard of anyone round here getting done for marking a road either.
last year i was on a site where we came on a council mains pipe, it was right in the middle of yer mans site so he organized the Irish council to move their pipe, they got me to do the digging as i was on site with one foot on the grass and the other one on the road, there was no remarks passed.
i can tell you that if i was digging the trench for anyone other than them then there would of been words about me being on the road with a track machine.
kind of a one rule for me and another rule for you job.
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as said rubber covers no grip in the fields for road legal would be best to buy a wheeled machine but not good on wet land
seem to remember a figure of 200 miles for rubber tracks lasting on main battle tank Challenger 1 so not a lot of good road use wise
seem to remember a figure of 200 miles for rubber tracks lasting on main battle tank Challenger 1 so not a lot of good road use wise
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yeah, they are like a pair of ski's in a field.
i used to fit them to an odd digger that a civil engineering crowd had but they took them off the minute they werent needed on the job.
it was a delightful job every so often..........Not.
better off with a rubber duck for that work and thats what they bought in the end.
i used to fit them to an odd digger that a civil engineering crowd had but they took them off the minute they werent needed on the job.
it was a delightful job every so often..........Not.
better off with a rubber duck for that work and thats what they bought in the end.
