Does anybody here drive a hay transporter? This time of year there seem to be a lot of them going westbound out of Suffolk/Essex, often as far as North Wales by the looks of the signwriting on the trucks.
Don’t know about you but seeing that first bit of straw being blown about on the road, which is the sign that you’re catching a hay wagon up, always makes me feel a bit uneasy.
I passed on a couple of weeks ago, an old ERF I think with a drawbar on, carrying a load of big bales. The load on the drawbar trailer was leaning at quite an ange, and I passed as quick as I could.
The thought of that lot coming off on a busy dual carriageway doesn’t bear thinking about…
chorcheela:
Does anybody here drive a hay transporter? This time of year there seem to be a lot of them going westbound out of Suffolk/Essex, often as far as North Wales by the looks of the signwriting on the trucks.
Don’t know about you but seeing that first bit of straw being blown about on the road, which is the sign that you’re catching a hay wagon up, always makes me feel a bit uneasy.
I passed one a couple of weeks ago, an old ERF I think with a drawbar on, carrying a load of big bales. The load on the drawbar trailer was leaning at quite an angle, and I passed as quick as I could.
The thought of that lot coming off on a busy dual carriageway doesn’t bear thinking about…
Last year I:
I’ve just remembered that the last Chinese Six I saw was about 6 weeks ago, the full load of straw bales on the A-frame drawbar trailer didn’t look very stable. The lorry was an ‘E’ reg Volvo and had a deck over the cab so that the whole length of the outfit could carry the stuff, over 60 feet of it. Here it is carefully negotiating its way through the bends by the Tempsford Boatyard on the A1 North, just south of the Black Cat roundabout.
They can be seen around here (Fenland) all year round going to a straw burning power station near Ely. Probably the most commonly seen operator of them passing through here is Northern Straw, who I think are based in North Humberside. The most popular trailer used for this work nowadays seems to be the close-coupled drawbar type, rather than the A-frame; only a few use semi-trailers.
I saw a Semi-trailer parked up in a layby outside a pub on my way home last night. There are often flat or animal trailers parked overnight here but it was unusual to see one loaded with bales.
On my way to work this morning the layby was full of smoking straw and I could just make out the twisted remians of the heardboard poking ot of the top.
my first driving job was livestock and hay/straw and i dunno what was worse 20 cattle on the top deck or straw just have to take em easy on bends and roundabouts and your alright
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