Davies Int. Southampton. With photos (Part 1)

horaces_first · 19 August 2022 18:50

Salut Buzzer
your site entertaining as ever , concerning the heavy agri tractors and trailers, over here the drivers need to have passed
an HGV test or its equivalent perhaps you can confirm Franglais ?
Keep up the banter Cheers Andy

horaces_first · 19 August 2022 18:54

P.S. the nuns are having the same problem over here
Andy

gerbil_sb152 · 19 August 2022 21:06

Hi all, yes I passed my tractor test at 16. Had to meet the examiner at the local church. He told me to drive round a set route till he signaled me to stop and also at some point he would step out for me to do an emergency stop. Brave man with me on a Nuffield 10/60 lucky it was fairly new so had pretty good brakes.

franglais · 20 August 2022 08:14

Driver licensing
Agricultural tractors require a category F licence to drive on the public road. Category B (car) licence holders automatically have category F entitlement. To drive track-laying vehicles, including tractors, on the public road requires the category H entitlement.

You can hold a category F licence from age 16. 16-year-olds may only drive tractors up to 2.45 metres wide, and tow trailers up to 2.45 metres wide and with 2 wheels, or 4 close-coupled wheels. From age 17 these restrictions do not apply.

Category F licence only applies to tractors used primarily for agriculture or forestry. Therefore, if you wish to drive a tractor that is not used primarily for agriculture or forestry, you need to hold a goods vehicle licence. That is category C1E for combinations with a maximum authorised mass (MAM) up to 12 tonnes (8.25 tonnes if licence was obtained before 1997) and CE for combinations with MAM over 7.5 tonnes (8.25 tonnes for pre-1997 licences).

Other, non-tractor agricultural motor vehicles require a category B licence, and you must also be over 21 years old to drive these.

Summary of minimum ages to drive agricultural vehicles:

age 16 (via F category): tractors up to 2.45 metres wide, towing trailers up to 2.45 metres wide and with 2 wheels, or 4 close-coupled wheels
age 17 to 20: all tractors, subject to holding relevant entitlement
age 21+: all tractors and non-tractor agricultural motor vehicles, subject to holding relevant entitlement

gov.uk/government/publicati … 20age%2016.

Looks like the tractor licence is still a thing at 16, but not for extensive road use, and not for heavier or larger tractors.

horry · 20 August 2022 08:20

gerbil sb152:
Hi all, yes I passed my tractor test at 16. Had to meet the examiner at the local church. He told me to drive round a set route till he signaled me to stop and also at some point he would step out for me to do an emergency stop. Brave man with me on a Nuffield 10/60 lucky it was fairly new so had pretty good brakes.

Gerbil, I knew a bloke who used to have a stall out side that church selling raincoats, did you know him??

His name was Max Bygraves… boom-boom see you next week [emoji106][emoji106][emoji12]

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gerbil_sb152 · 20 August 2022 08:40

Horry you should be on the stage mate. No sorry can’t make next weekend going to Barnstable for the weekend.

wrighty · 20 August 2022 19:11

Evening Buzzer

Yes were getting plenty of the wet stuff up ere (it’s torrential rain as I write this) and the grass is growing nicely, our only concern is whether there will be any trade for our mule gimmers as a lot of the southern customers will have little or no grass.
Work is underway on our building extension with the footings going in yesterday, some of the steel was brought up ready to start erecting later this next week.
Busy at work as the straw season is in full swing, talk is there might be shortage later in the winter as a lot of farms are chopping the straw to put some P+K back into the land as the price of fertiliser is still sky high…

Cheers Wrighty.

oiltreader · 21 August 2022 07:14

Hi wrighty, “Inverurie bound.” would that be Thainstone?
Cheers
Oily

wrighty · 21 August 2022 08:00

oiltreader:
Hi wrighty, “Inverurie bound.” would that be Thainstone?
Cheers
Oily

Morning Oily

I delivered to a farm near Monymusk, then loaded a trailer at Stewarts and up to Banff for a power harrow.

Cheers Wrighty.

buzzer · 21 August 2022 19:03

Hey up Wrighty you better wash your mouth out with soap talking up the prices of straw, only joking but before you know it it will happen, still no rain here and just seen the country file forecast and sure its swerved and missed us again. Probably thats why a lot of cattle are going North from the markets down here, any thing 500kl plus still holding its price here but they are going into finishing yards, the younger stuff harder to shift and money accordingly.
The boys are busy on the work front and all the drivers happy with there new Scania’s which makes for a happy crew. I was going to add another 15ft bay on to my big shed but the price has tripled since two years ago so waiting for the bloke to sharpen his pencil after fitting new batteries in his calculator cheers Buzzer