how much weight can I carry?

Stacks Mad

With these new trailer regulations coming I just want to know for my self what my tractor can carry?

I have 6211 zetor with a home made 12x7 tipper , I have never really put much weight in it , just bringing home turf and odd jobs.

I have heard from a neighbours saying she'll take 8 ton no bother etc..

But is this true? And will the tractor be able to stop?

joeyboy12345

Knowing what the brakes are like on them older zetors i wouldnt be too hopeful!☺

Zr105

Assuming that neither the trailer or the tractor hitch are plated, your allowed to tow 3 times the book weight(tractor, plus running oils/fuel, no attachments) of the tractor, tractor data is giving the 6211 a weight of 2943kg, which means you can in theory pull 8800kg. That weight would include the weight of the trailer.

You do also need trailer brakes at that weight to comply with the new regs

micraX

Is your trailer plated and professionally welded?

Stacks Mad

No the trailer is not plated .

No there's no brakes on the trailer either.

so what's going to happen with the thousands of 10 x 6 trailers, that are home made, no brakes etc?
Surely they can still be used after January 2016?

micraX

Scrap? Or get an engineer to look/repair and plate it. You can tow a homemade trailer as long as it doesn't weight more than a third of the tractor towing it.

Kevin McCloud

I would be bringing a spare pair of underpants after experiencing 8 tonne aboard a trailer with no brakes in a 45hp tractor down a hill.

Zr105

micraX wrote: »

Scrap? Or get an engineer to look/repair and plate it. You can tow a homemade trailer as long as it doesn't weight more than a third of the tractor towing it.

It's 3 times the weight of the tractor not a third of the weight!

micraX

Zr105 wrote: »

It's 3 times the weight of the tractor not a third of the weight!

Is it 3 times the weight when it's home made?

Zr105

micraX wrote: »

Is it 3 times the weight when it's home made?

Yep if either tractor or trailer is not plated you can tow up to 3 times the book weight of the tractor, providing that you do not exceed the loadings appropriate to the number of axles.

Taken from statutory instrument No.253 of 2014,
Which covers all the new weight classifications etc;

"Substitution of Regulation 21 of the Regulations of 2003.
15. The Regulations of 2003 are amended by the substitution for Regulation 21 of the following:
“21. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), in the case of an agricultural trac- tor and agricultural trailer combination, the weight laden of the trailer, including the vertical load imposed by it on the tractor’s coupling, shall not exceed:
(a) where either of them is unplated, 3 times the tractor’s unladen weight subject to it not in any case exceeding:
(i) 13 tonnes for a rigid drawbar single axle trailer, 19 tonnes in the case of a tandem axle or 22.5 tonnes in the case of a triaxle; or
(ii) 16 tonnes for a drawbar or centre-axle trailer where the axles are separated by a distance of less than 3.0 metres, or 18 tonnes where the axles are separated by a distance of 3.0 metres or greater; or
(iii) 25 tonnes in the case of a drawbar or centre-axle trailer equipped with three axles; or
(iv) 30 tonnes for a drawbar or centre-axle trailer equipped with four axles, or
(b) where both of them are plated, the lesser of the weights declared on the manufacturer’s plate affixed to the tractor under the heading ‘Permissible Towable Weight’ or those declared on the authorisation plate affixed to the trailer under the heading ‘Weights not to be Exceeded in Ireland’."

micraX

Zr105 wrote: »

Yep if either tractor or trailer is not plated you can tow up to 3 times the book weight of the tractor, providing that you do not exceed the loadings appropriate to the number of axles.

Taken from statutory instrument No.253 of 2014,
Which covers all the new weight classifications etc;

It's once it doesn't exceed 5ton.

Zr105

micraX wrote: »

It's once it doesn't exceed 5ton.

Where does it say that?