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    #602
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Odelay wrote: »
    Very common all over Europe and North America.

    They'd make tight turns on roads and gateways a hell of a lot easier.


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    #603
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,792 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Say my name wrote: »
    They'd make tight turns on roads and gateways a hell of a lot easier.

    Could never figure out why they aren’t used more here. The trailer follows the route of the tractor without cutting corners.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9ZPmQgiZI

    Handy also to check the rear lights without getting out of the cab.


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    #604
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 19,110 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Odelay wrote: »
    Could never figure out why they aren’t used more here. The trailer follows the route of the tractor without cutting corners.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9ZPmQgiZI

    Handy also to check the rear lights without getting out of the cab.




    Because they are dangerous.


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    #605
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Donald Trump wrote: »
    Because they are dangerous.

    Then why are they so common in america


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    #606
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    ganmo wrote: »
    Then why are they so common in america

    Split rims are also common over there. They are death traps too. Most cattle trucks still run that setup here.


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    #607
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users Posts: 19,110 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Split rims are also common over there. They are death traps too. Most cattle trucks still run that setup here.


    I think I've seen split rims on an old tanker here too. Serious risk of injury with them if you start messing with them and don't know what you are doing.

    America isn't too big on safety things. You can get a bit nervous if you are driving over there when one of their "big rigs" is motoring past you and you realize they don't have the side rails to stop you slipping in under the body (and wheels) of the trailer! You'd take them for granted here.



    For other poster wondering:

    With a 4-wheel trailer (as in front and back axle, I don't mean tandem) you have two issues.

    One is that the weight isn't on the thing towing it, and potentially being the only thing having brakes applied to it.
    Second is that there are two pivot points between where you are sitting and the weight behind you. It can swivel at the hitch and then swivel at the dolly. So if you brake, there is a whole lot more options there for where the trailer will stop, even if your tractor stops dead in one spot. An artic has a dolly too of course, but it is fixed rigid to the body of the truck (99.999999% of the time)


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    #608
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    ganmo wrote: »
    Then why are they so common in america

    Farm tractors there seem to mainly have a simple drawbar, almost never our style of pick up hitch.
    Its easier hitching up one of those wagons to a drawbar.
    Helps to have wide open spaces, reversing not so handy


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    #609
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,194 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Split rims are also common over there. They are death traps too. Most cattle trucks still run that setup here.

    Split rims allow any lad with a sledge and a bar to fit new tyres to a rim, without a tyre changing machine.

    Of course, some lads take on to do things they don't understand, and get killed


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    #610
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Split rims allow any lad with a sledge and a bar to fit new tyres to a rim, without a tyre changing machine.

    Of course, some lads take on to do things they don't understand, and get killed

    That's the issue, but I have seen them blown out under pressure and the ring/rim flying across the sky. I solid hate them.


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    #611
    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Say my name wrote: »
    They'd make tight turns on roads and gateways a hell of a lot easier.


    You'd want something like this pair

    9ZHW4vd.jpg


    with steering like this on them




    and a lot of braking tech


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    #612
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    Donald Trump wrote: »
    Would you say this yoke is plated for the oul' RSA?

    https://www.donedeal.ie/silagetrailers-for-sale/bale-trailer-24ft-long-x-8ft-wide/21167691


    Might buy it and invest in a fastrac to pull it and go drawing bales of silage for the Summer. Sure what could go wrong


    Have something similar as an exhibition trailer. Dolly front axle. 7m body and 4ft drawbar total of 27ft and the l200 is close to 17ft so 43/44ft.

    I’m more than useless reversing it I admit and it’s even difficult going forward in some places but the turning circle of a jeep is not a patch on a tractor

    That’s it in the background


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    #613
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    I’d swear I have the same chair at me desk at work :)

    https://www.donedeal.ie/view/21208291 International 685xl


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