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V8Druid

V8Druid

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Storrsy said:
What's a modern duck like on the road. Let's say going up an average hill what kind of speed can it maintain. Mine is deffo only about 5mph on a hill- a cyclist could over take me much to my disgust. No turbo on mine supposedly the newer 295 which the previous owner has upgraded too is only quicker on the hills but about the same on the level
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turbo'll make no real difference ... it's hydrostatic drive on a duck and dependent on oil flow
 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

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Lancs Lad said:
If registered and for road construction it is,don't forget ☺️ we had it from the horses mouth.
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starts with a B ends in X and has O,s and Ls in the middle - arisings only - no equipment
 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

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Lancs Lad said:

The new trailer towing legislation explained | JCB

Helping you to navigate the new trailer towing legislation.
www.jcb.com www.jcb.com

Your memory going ? 🤭😂
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" road construction, maintenance and repair -- any operator who wishes to tow has to apply for the VSO – and a vehicle must fulfil certain criteria to qualify .. VSOs are limited to 20mph and not permitted on motorways. If you use your engineering plant machinery for any purpose other than those described above – or without a valid VSO issued by the VCA – it will still be illegal.
  • Measure less than 8 metres in overall length.
  • Be unladen; be carrying excavated materials having completed the construction, maintenance or repair of a public highway; or be returning to collect more material.
  • Be being used solely for the carriage of materials and tools required for construction, maintenance and repair of public roads. " ............ I do not recall anything about tools in the original statement !! - the quoted page is JCB's slant on it
 
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V8Druid said:
" road construction, maintenance and repair -- any operator who wishes to tow has to apply for the VSO – and a vehicle must fulfil certain criteria to qualify .. VSOs are limited to 20mph and not permitted on motorways. If you use your engineering plant machinery for any purpose other than those described above – or without a valid VSO issued by the VCA – it will still be illegal.
  • Measure less than 8 metres in overall length.
  • Be unladen; be carrying excavated materials having completed the construction, maintenance or repair of a public highway; or be returning to collect more material.
  • Be being used solely for the carriage of materials and tools required for construction, maintenance and repair of public roads. " ............ I do not recall anything about tools in the original statement !! - the quoted page is JCB's slant on it
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Bs isn't it. Yet you see 13t 360 on tractors knowing full well they aren't complying
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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V8Druid said:
" road construction, maintenance and repair -- any operator who wishes to tow has to apply for the VSO – and a vehicle must fulfil certain criteria to qualify .. VSOs are limited to 20mph and not permitted on motorways. If you use your engineering plant machinery for any purpose other than those described above – or without a valid VSO issued by the VCA – it will still be illegal.
  • Measure less than 8 metres in overall length.
  • Be unladen; be carrying excavated materials having completed the construction, maintenance or repair of a public highway; or be returning to collect more material.
  • Be being used solely for the carriage of materials and tools required for construction, maintenance and repair of public roads. " ............ I do not recall anything about tools in the original statement !! - the quoted page is JCB's slant on it
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My point was you can actually legally tow one ...albeit only on a full moon and with jcbs blessing and providing your Duck identifies as a hydrapig
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Lancs Lad said:
My point was you can actually legally tow one ...albeit only on a full moon and with jcbs blessing and providing your Duck identifies as a hydrapig
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but only if registered and hold a VSO " any operator who wishes to tow has to apply for the VSO "
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Storrsy said:
Yes that's what I was thinking but why do they bother fitting them then?
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more donkeys per cube from a smaller lump, etc., etc.! for working the machine with

UK has a big problem with TIME .. continentals use ducks all over and accept the extra time taken to trek ..... here, if you've not arrived yesterday it's not acceptable ..
after decades of trundling about the country in mobile cranes, I learned to accept that you get there when you arrive. You may have to get up 15 min.s earlier to get there on time and a lot of ppl may curse you - but fk 'em - you've got a job to do

Used to take me 3+hrs to get to Eley Kinnocks range in New Radnor for the ROF-G&VD boys in the 45 - would leave 20 min.s earlier and have brekky at the little chef in Builth - used to get some odd looks backing that into their car park as they opened - but they paid the travel, no probs. and was usually sat at the range gates, waiting for 'em, 'fore they arrived.
 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Storrsy said:
I can't imagine trying to encourage a trailer up a hill as well as the duck! Be fine in low but high forget it
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so you go up in low and get there a few minutes later ... TIME again
 
Storrsy

Storrsy

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V8Druid said:
more donkeys per cube from a smaller lump, etc., etc.! for working the machine with

UK has a big problem with TIME .. continentals use ducks all over and accept the extra time taken to trek ..... here, if you've not arrived yesterday it's not acceptable ..
after decades of trundling about the country in mobile cranes, I learned to accept that you get there when you arrive. You may have to get up 15 min.s earlier to get there on time and a lot of ppl may curse you - but fk 'em - you've got a job to do
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Yeah I get what your saying about the time. But I'd say it would take me 1.5-2 hrs to complete the same journey that would take me 35 mins in the disco with 3 tonner behind. And when I get there I can unload the trailer and leave the digger there whereas the duck Id either have to spend all that time/wear and tear at the end of the day or get someone to come and give me a lift. I dunno just doesn't seem to work that well for me which is a shame because I really like the duck as a machine and on certain jobs I'd have it over a tracked machine
 
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