Tractor for day to day transport needs

gebbel said:
Well I have never seen a tractor pulled up on the road with the owner being questioned on it's primary use. Surely they haven't the resources to be following up small fry like that!
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Also I have never heard of a revenue official dipping a tractor at a diesel checkpoint.
 
Listen folks...a tractor is designed primarily for agricultural purposes. However you also need to drive around to do this. Revenue would never be able to come a conclusion (beyond reasonable doubt) that one was using a tractor primarily in day to day transport (for non-agricultural purposes). You could drive the tractor around your garden for a couple of minutes and say you were levelling the soil to prepare for sowing some cabbage. That would justify it's purpose, and therefore justify the agricultural diesel within it.

But anyway, I think that having a tractor as your primary mode of transport (while understanding some the OP's frustrations and grievances) is ludicrous. It's just not practical.
 
Tractors are insured as tractors, there is no such thing as private/commercial with tractors.
 
You'll pick up a 15 year old fastrac for 12 or 13k. 40 mph, air-con, stereo. Personally I prefer my John Deere! I remember years ago as a 16 year old with a broken ankle in cast dropping home a girl in the early hours of the morning in a Ford 7610 after a beer or two when my father drove after me and stopped me. She hasn't spoken to me since. Presumably because I wasn't playing her favourite station on the radio. Ah the good old days.
 
I had a mate that used to come to school on a Massey 35... Teachers used to go mental at him but he parked it out in the street so they couldn't stop him.... so funny!!!

And how we p***ed ourselves when he tried to drive home after a few too many one night, bumped down a curb and got bounced out of the seat... fell right out of the back between the seat and the mud guard... the thing kept going on the hand throttle over a small ditch, through a field and only stopped when it buried itself in a thick hedge.... hahahahaha... I'm laughing about it again now...
 
I have to say that I've considered it myself, but I would advise driving one first before making a purchase. They are Dog Slow and more often than not, you cannot carry any passengers. Going Slow may be OK in city traffic, but if you are on any road with traffic moving faster than 30MPH, it could end up being a nightmare. You should clarify if you are thinking of purchasing something ancient with no-frills, or if you are willing to fork out for a more recent model with some luxuries (A/C, radio, GPS etc). Looking at the bright side.....you'll give those big 4x4's a run for their money !
 
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