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Combine Harvester on M50

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  • #32
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,547 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Gallant_JJ wrote: »
    Why would ya bother, hardly mass murder. I'll give ya a hand down from your high horse if needs be
    There are lots of offences that are 'hardly mass murder' ... should we ignore all those as well, and only prosecute mass murderers then? Look, driving something that slow and big on a motorway is not just against the law, it's against the law for a very good reason .. it's highly dangerous and just plain stupid.

    And would people please stop invoking this stupid childish high horse argument every time anyone suggests that maybe laws ought to be enforced, it's starting to get very annoying,


  • #33
    AugustusMaximus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭AugustusMaximus


    Gallant_JJ wrote: »
    Why would ya bother, hardly mass murder. I'll give ya a hand down from your high horse if needs be

    You are joking right ?

    Not alone that is is incredibly dangerous (speeding drivers aren't half as dangerous considering the speed differential would be substantially less) it would also cause untold traffic congestion.


  • #34
    ardmacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    It is necessary for these laws to be enforced, roads are not the place for acting the bollix. The very worthy event in Drogheda could (and perhaps did) have organised a convoy of these behemoths at (say) 6am, with Garda escort in order to get everyone there.


  • #35
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Give the guy a fair cut, He is an expert in his field.


  • #36
    brownacid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭brownacid


    Alun wrote: »
    Right, so because he's doing it for charity it somehow makes it alright to blatantly flout the rules like that does it? Can you not see how unbelievably stupid a thing it is to take something like that on a motorway?



    As far as I can tell no one justified it because he was doing it for charity. I was just suggesting that he could have possibely been on his way to Duleek for the combine thingy.


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  • #37
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,547 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    brownacid wrote: »
    As far as I can tell no one justified it because he was doing it for charity. I was just suggesting that he could have possibely been on his way to Duleek for the combine thingy.
    It was snowman707's post I was referring to ... I got a definite 'it's for charity, so stop complaining' vibe off his post. Maybe I was wrong.


  • #38
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    Alun wrote: »
    Right, so because he's doing it for charity it somehow makes it alright to blatantly flout the rules like that does it? Can you not see how unbelievably stupid a thing it is to take something like that on a motorway?

    probably safer than taking the non-motorway route via the strawberry beds and up to Clonsilla, where traffic going the opposite way would have to stop suddenly as there' wouldn't be room to pass safely....


  • #39
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    I think that I'm actually more surpised by the fact that there are more than 1,000 combine harvesters in the country! That's a lot of cutting power.


  • #40
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,098 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    trad wrote: »
    Posted by me already but


    Attachment not found.
    It not quite that simple. The regulations specify that a vehicle using a motorway must have an internal combustion engine and be capable of travelling at 50kph. Many large modern tractors with suspension can achieve this. In the UK the regulations are different and land tractors are banned from motorways (with some exceptions).

    Leaving that aside, that tractor that you have pictured is drawing an unladen low lowder. It was probably delivering an excavator to the motorway works and would therefore be exempt from the normal regulations.


  • #41
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,950 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Would bringing a works vehicle entitle him to use the hard shoulder? Presume not.

    If its an agricultural vehicle are there also not limitations on using marked gas oil in vehicles that can exceed certain speeds?


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  • #42
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,098 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    MYOB wrote: »
    Would bringing a works vehicle entitle him to use the hard shoulder? Presume not.
    No - he should have remained in the left lane.
    MYOB wrote:
    If its an agricultural vehicle are there also not limitations on using marked gas oil in vehicles that can exceed certain speeds?
    I think it depends on what the vehicle is doing rather than it's speed. AFAIK it legal to use it while bringing machinery from one place to another but not for the transportion of goods/produce/building materials etc..


  • #43
    maidhc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,733 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I think it depends on what the vehicle is doing rather than it's speed. AFAIK it legal to use it while bringing machinery from one place to another but not for the transportion of goods/produce/building materials etc..

    In the UK. Here if an agricultural vehicle has a design speed of under 50km/h and can use green diesel. Hence fast tracks sold here have a limiter not fitted in the UK.

    I think people should let the Gardai deal with these mattters. The combine shouldn't be on the motorway, but it is pathetic that people get so riled about everything they need to compain to the gardai, boards, and joe duffy.


  • #44
    bladebrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭bladebrew


    i saw a forklift driving on the skehard road in cork! its a 50km/h limit! i drive forklifts in work and the most they will go is about 10mph!,and this thing was struggling up a hill!!
    i dont know what he was doing there very built up residential area,funny though:)


  • #45
    bladebrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭bladebrew


    maidhc wrote: »
    In the UK. Here if an agricultural vehicle has a design speed of under 50km/h and can use green diesel. Hence fast tracks sold here have a limiter not fitted in the UK.

    I think people should let the Gardai deal with these mattters. The combine shouldn't be on the motorway, but it is pathetic that people get so riled about everything they need to compain to the gardai, boards, and joe duffy.

    people have to complain to the gardai or else the gardai will have no idea this is happening! they cant patrol every bit of motorway in the country just incase someone drives a combine on to it!

    i certainly wouldnt call it pathetic,


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 72 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Let's keep this on topic please.

    That IS on topic! ****! :mad:


  • #47
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,098 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    bladebrew wrote: »
    i saw a forklift driving on the skehard road in cork! its a 50km/h limit! i drive forklifts in work and the most they will go is about 10mph!,and this thing was struggling up a hill!!
    i dont know what he was doing there very built up residential area,funny though:)
    There's nothing illegal about a forklift truck on a public road (presuming it's registered, taxed, insured etc.).
    bladebrew wrote: »
    people have to complain to the gardai or else the gardai will have no idea this is happening!
    That's what maidhc was saying! You should read his post again.


  • #48
    bladebrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭bladebrew


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    There's nothing illegal about a forklift truck on a public road (presuming it's registered, taxed, insured etc.).

    That's what maidhc was saying! You should read his post again.

    i doubt this was insured or taxed,and there is nowhere to put a reg plate on a forklift!!

    "I think people should let the Gardai deal with these mattters. The combine shouldn't be on the motorway, but it is pathetic that people get so riled about everything they need to compain to the gardai, boards, and joe duffy"

    people should let the gardai deal with this,but the fact they need to complain to the gardai is pathetic,that dosent make sense,

    a motor meet must be murder:)


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 72 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I've got a brand new combine harvester, and I'll give you the key.,


  • #50
    vw4life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭vw4life


    http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/news/tillage-farmers-hoping-to-set-new-combine-record-1812981.html

    well he wasn't doin it for charity unless its takes a week to get there


  • #51
    Omcd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Omcd


    maidhc wrote: »

    I think people should let the Gardai deal with these mattters. The combine shouldn't be on the motorway, but it is pathetic that people get so riled about everything they need to compain to the gardai, boards, and joe duffy.

    Well, its not everyday you see a combine harvester on the motorway, and as a talking point it's generated a few pages here on a topic slightly different to usual mundane stuff gone over here day after day.

    As for complaining to the Gardai, I'm sure the people who monitor the traffic cameras on the M50 knew he was there, and would have alerted the Gardai if they though there was a problem. I also presume the fact that he wasn't using the slip lane meant he wasn't intending to exit at the N4, so if that's the case, eflow will probably have a few pictures of him if any authority is wanting to follow it up.

    Maybe he was there completely legally if the thing is actually capable of 50 km/h and that's the rule, although I could have sworn motorways signs here say 'No vehicles under 50km/h' which I doubt he was even close to.

    Who's Joe Duffy ?


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  • #52
    elius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elius


    What harm. Its a car park anyway. There all taxed and insured.


  • #53
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,933 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btEpF334Rtc


  • #54
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    antodeco wrote: »
    Ironically enough, out of 4 cars in that photo, only 1 is actually between the lines!
    I can only see three cars!


  • #55
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    kbannon wrote: »
    I can only see three cars!


    The cars were changing lanes because the tractor was changing lanes from the hard shoulder and as he approached J12S (before the roadworks started) he moved out into the traffic lane. My eperience of encountering a hazard on a road is to give it a wide berth.


  • #56
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    trad wrote: »
    The cars were changing lanes because the tractor was changing lanes from the hard shoulder and as he approached J12S (before the roadworks started) he moved out into the traffic lane. My eperience of encountering a hazard on a road is to give it a wide berth.
    My point was that there are only 3 cars in the pic not 4 as antodeco said! I never mentioned whereabouts on the road they were! Try reading it again!


  • #57
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    kbannon wrote: »
    My point was that there are only 3 cars in the pic not 4 as antodeco said! I never mentioned whereabouts on the road they were! Try reading it again!

    I know there are 3 cars in the picture - I took it. Maybe the poster finds it easier to spell car than vehicles.


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