Tractor use on roads plus other tracor related questions

[carbore]

Hello,

I am seriously considering getting an old tractor for my "sprawling 5 acre country estate". Topping is the main idea but possibly hay making (although baliers look either expensive/complicated/Rusty) a loader would be nice and a backhoe ideal for my ponds/ditches. In in the sub £750 price range for the tractor.

The main question.

Can you drive a tractor on the road without a V5/Insurance for getting it home (if I buy one locally)......... id guess thats a NO

If I buy one off-farm and its got no V5 and I wanted to get a V5 is it easy?

Any links to any good tractor forms and legislation.
 

[beast5680]

ask on here http://farmingforum.co.uk/forum/YaBB.pl you may have a more answers
to get a V5 you would need either the registration mark and/or serial number

[HiFonics]

You wont get much of a tractor for £750 especially with a loader on it. To get anything worth buying you would need to spend around £1500 to £2000 imo. Even then it will be pretty rough and ready.

You need insurance to drive anything on the road, however I dont think it will cost you very much. Give the NFU a call.

[V8MoneyPit]

Have to agree with the price comment above. Our Ferguson TE20 cost £1200 and although it was in basically straight condition, it has since had all new electrics. It doesn't have a loader either. If you buy a less 'classic' tractor, you can find them a little cheaper but many will be really scabby and may cost more in the long run.

I would suggest buying the best one you can afford even if it means stretching the budget a little. It will pay off long term.

We bought a new 4' topper. Ended up with a new import one. Used ones fetch silly money, so it didn't seem worth buying one when a new one was barely any more.

Just remember, mobile phones and toppers don't mix  :oops: :oops:

Oh, and it most definately has to be insured for road use. But does it have to leave the field? If not, why bother making it road legal. Ours just lives at the field and has never needed to see the road.

You can get anything registered with the DVLA. Easier if it has already been on their records at some time in the past. But even if it has never been registered you can apply for a V5/registration.

[bravo669]

for sub 750 you're looking at a rusty ebay special with 3 wheels and half an engine. you would definitely be better off spending a bit more (1000 - 1500) for perhaps a second hand Kubota tractor, or even a quad. you can get all sorts of attachments (toppers bailers etc) for quads these days. :thumbup:

[carbore]

I have been looking for a bit and am a bit wary as I did buy an "ok" landrover that has still only done 10 miles of use in the last 10 months!

Still I did look at a grey fergie down the road that went for £630 on ebay, it was in ok condition but not running although allegedly fine (hmmmm)  I know that there may be some horrors out there but provided I dont spend too much then the risk it not too high.  Decent compact go for serious money and a bit like the topper if I pay too much I get too close to a cheap sirmoner which I would buy flat pack. Also man next door may sell me an old Zetor, they have a few old ones in the sum 1k category and they use one for various jobs and its ok so im really looking to emulate that.

If money was no object though the Kubotas look serious bits of kit and would do everything I ever wanted.

PS I think road reg is a non starter, my only issue is transport home and I think someone with a plant trailer owes me a favour. My land surround the farm so I dont need to get about on the roads.

Im almost deffo buying a topper new unless I see one very local for cheap, thing about Cornwall and ebay is as its so remote some things got some loads and so things go for peanuts.

[cooper956]

for 750 you can get a useubul old tractor but nothing that wount need a spanner to it thay are out there but you have to look and probly go find one i bought a b 275 for £350 spent a few days on it fitting new rad hoses and manifold and its been tooping  carting trailers ect for me since it did have rough wings but im welding them back togther it did have a loader but thats missing now so has brakets fitted and a loader sold for £50 on ebay.upto now got into working order with oil and filters ect and a rad at £200 its cost me £650.
 

[cooper956]

and my other tractor a little bigger at 115hp 4wd ect and  a bit more ££s than the 275 lol

[V8MoneyPit]

Ooo, that's a nice post installer you've got there matey! Another piece of kit that can cost an arm and a leg. I keep looking for one, but they all seem to go for silly money.

[bravo669]

post rammers are a godsend!! takes all the backbreaking out of fencing!! not finger friendly but who cares.....!

[carbore]

I think I may end up with a rough cut pedestrian mower, seems like the right idea as I have trees, ponds and some ares with small gates etc. My land is slightly sloped so I may get a bit tired, but ill keep fit!. Id like to hire one as they are about £800. Byt then agen I found http://www.affordabletractors.co.uk/ who have some nice looking kit for very sensibe money (compared to ebay) and its tested etc. So an Iseke could be mine for only double the cost of the rough cut mower.

I also have a very capable westward garden tractor that allomst does it , managed 4ft docks but gets wrapped up on the long wispy grass.

[stuvy]

Id seriousl have a look at the quad option a few of the farms i go to have some interesting bits of kit that they can bolt to the back of it very quickly and cheaply too!

[cooper956]

its a king hitter post driver £6k new this ones 10 years old or so but  hardly been used before we got it needs 90hp tractor on it though to be safe its quite heavey lol but it dont half make fenceing quick and easy. not worth haveing unless your contracting like we do though or you have lots of fences best  on use  smaller tractor one is the small parmiter ones  there contractor one is for biger tractors too.

[V8MoneyPit]

its a king hitter post driver £6k new this ones 10 years old or so but  hardly been used before we got it needs 90hp tractor on it though to be safe its quite heavey lol but it dont half make fenceing quick and easy. not worth haveing unless your contracting like we do though or you have lots of fences best  on use  smaller tractor one is the small parmiter ones  there contractor one is for biger tractors too.

Yes. I'd be wanting one for the Fergie, so it would need to be smaller. I put about 300 yds of posts in one day on my own, in the rain, with a manual post installer.... never again! My back ached for weeks  :roll: :lol: