Tractor Driving Age?

MightyMacks

Just out of intrest , what age did you start driving a tractor on the road?

also what would be the consequenses of a 15year old getting caught driving on the backroads by gaurds? Even if the tractor was taxed & Insured :P as my son could help me driving up and back to the farm etc.

Thanks

rancher

MightyMacks wrote: »

Just out of intrest , what age did you start driving a tractor on the road?

also what would be the consequenses of a 15year old getting caught driving on the backroads by gaurds? Even if the tractor was taxed & Insured :P as my son could help me driving up and back to the farm etc.

Thanks

tractor is only insured when driven by a licensed driver, so you'd be summonsed for having no insurance.

Username John

MightyMacks wrote: »

Just out of intrest , what age did you start driving a tractor on the road?

also what would be the consequenses of a 15year old getting caught driving on the backroads by gaurds? Even if the tractor was taxed & Insured :P as my son could help me driving up and back to the farm etc.

Thanks

Madness in my opinion!

It doesnt matter about insurance - as a 15 year old wont be covered. Its not the guards you need to worry about at all... What if there is an accident? Regardless of whose fault it is, if they want to make trouble, you'll have to pay out of your own pocket... Surely its not worth the risk...

pajero12

Not worth the risk to wait a few months!

Not far from me quite recently, A very large arable farmer was cutting barley, He had his 14 year old son drawing barley, The lad took a turn too quick and the trailer didnt come around as he met a women walking on the side of the road, The farmer had to sell the farm(About 420 acres) to pay for her medical costs!

Box09

It's pure stupidity to let a 15 year old out on the road on a tractor. No matter how capable they think they are on machines, you need good experience to drive modern machinery on roads.

emaherx

Box09 wrote: »

you need good experience to drive modern machinery on roads.

And even more to drive older machinery

Finno59

pajero12 wrote: »

Not worth the risk to wait a few months!

Not far from me quite recently, A very large arable farmer was cutting barley, He had his 14 year old son drawing barley, The lad took a turn too quick and the trailer didnt come around as he met a women walking on the side of the road, The farmer had to sell the farm(About 420 acres) to pay for her medical costs!

wow , i'd say that family was/is in some state.

BENDYBINN

pajero12 wrote: »

Not worth the risk to wait a few months!

Not far from me quite recently, A very large arable farmer was cutting barley, He had his 14 year old son drawing barley, The lad took a turn too quick and the trailer didnt come around as he met a women walking on the side of the road, The farmer had to sell the farm(About 420 acres) to pay for her medical costs!

Bull**** if ever I heard it!

Claasman

Box09 wrote: »

It's pure stupidity to let a 15 year old out on the road on a tractor. No matter how capable they think they are on machines, you need good experience to drive modern machinery on roads.

most 15 year olds being left drive on the road by the farmer/owner, would have 6 or 7 years experience anyway...

Tipp Man

Box09 wrote: »

It's pure stupidity to let a 15 year old out on the road on a tractor. No matter how capable they think they are on machines, you need good experience to drive modern machinery on roads.

I would not fully agree with this.

You could have 2 lads and because 1 is born in April and the other August then 1 can do a silage season and the other can't? The 15 year old could be a lot more experienced than the 16 year old and a better driver

The only way to get experience is to do actually do it, you can't buy experience so they have to start sometime. (and this is coming from somebody who starting driving at 5 years old but was completly forbidden from driving on the road till my 16 birthday)

HOWEVER the law states they must be 16 to drive on the road. by breaking that law you are taking huge risks, especially in todays lawsuit society. If an accident happened you could be cleaned out (as has been proven in post above). The risk of losing everything is most definately not worth it

ihatetractors

Tipp Man wrote: »

I would not fully agree with this.

You could have 2 lads and because 1 is born in April and the other August then 1 can do a silage season and the other can't? The 15 year old could be a lot more experienced than the 16 year old and a better driver

The only way to get experience is to do actually do it, you can't buy experience so they have to start sometime. (and this is coming from somebody who starting driving at 5 years old but was completly forbidden from driving on the road till my 16 birthday)

HOWEVER the law states they must be 16 to drive on the road. by breaking that law you are taking huge risks, especially in todays lawsuit society. If an accident happened you could be cleaned out (as has been proven in post above). The risk of losing everything is most definately not worth it

Tis true, there's a contractors son near me who'd be a better operator than most double his age. Been mowing ploughing and even abit of bailing since about 12 0r 13. One rule was he never drove on the road, often heard stories of him having to spend 30mins or more teaching the farmer how to drive the tractor if it needed to be moved along the road.