Hi everyone,

 I am new to this site, and would like some help from anyone out there.   I live in a small village in Cleveland, and our local authority have put in traffic calming, including three speed cushions and gateways.   My friend who is a farmer lives central in the village, and is having damage to his agricultural machinery by going over these speed cushions as many as 20 times a day at this time of year.    My question to anyone out there is if you have had any damage to your vehicles caused by speed cushions, could you please post a reply.   I am trying to find out if anyone in the country has had problems, as we are trying to have these speed cushions removed.  Our local authority say that there is no problems anywhere else in the country, only my friend apparently, and I don't believe this, so I am trying to find anyone else who is of like mind, and having problems.    I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help.

Thanks everyone.

Treecott

In experience terms I cannot help however, you may get some infor from a site run by a guy who hates speed cameras. He has become something of an expert on these matters. His site has pictures of 'accidentally' damaged cameras and pics of police cars which are sited illegally whilst trying to catch motorists. Unfortunately, I had a quck look but can't find his site whilst typing this message and I know that if I try to leave FWI I will simply lose the work I have done, so suggest that you Google Gatso's, Speed Camera's UK etc and try to find him.

My guess is that your Local Authority will simply say that if he slowed down sufficiently the road bump would then be no greater a problem than the same vehicle and equipment running over a bump in a field.

 

There are speed bumps in two of our local villages but fortunately I don't normally have to go over them with the tractor.  The year before last I did fall foul of them when returning a borrowed bale trailer.  The trailer was actually home made by the person I borrowed it from and the twin axles were really not far enough back on the trailer so that, when unloaded, it did not really have sufficient nose weight.

When the front axle hit the first speed bump the force tried to lift the front of the trailer and it came off the pick-up hitch.  The trailer came to a halt and the car that was following me was too close and couldn't stop in time and hit the rear of the trailer.  We exchanged insurance details but I never heard any more about a claim, but just in case, I read up about speed humps, in particular about the recommended heights.  I went and measured the offending one and found it was higher than the recommendations and also that the lead-in slope was steeper than it should have been.

Well not so much vehicle damage, but back damage for definate! I would love them to be removed from some areas as it makes some places inaccessable to the disabled who need to drive, but who suffers agony with every bump. When you have a chronic pain condition, every jolt is agony!

flowerdrum:

Well not so much vehicle damage, but back damage for definate! I would love them to be removed from some areas as it makes some places inaccessable to the disabled who need to drive, but who suffers agony with every bump. When you have a chronic pain condition, every jolt is agony!

 

of this flowerdrum i can vouch for with my father who is disabled due to his severe back pain, every pothole, speedhump makes him wince in agony, also my mother a nurse of over 40 years was talking to the paramedic crews one break time and they were reporting that in rushing patients to hospital after road accidents for example it causes further pain to the patient in transit and more importantly slows down the critical first moments in recieving potentially life saving treatment, again the fire brigade must be hindered by slowing down for the humps.

But back to the point in question, i would be very suprised if speed humps are damaging your friends agricultural kit, as Peter points, out the council would say its no differant to bumps ect in the field, where i work i spend alot of time on the road with tractors with trailers and tackle on the 3 point linkage and we have never had a problem,

personally i would say, (i do not mean to be rude) but i fear maintence is not sufficient... 

We had a truck snap an axal on a speed bump over here but wasent realy the speed bumps fault as when we pulled the axal out we caould see it had been cracked for some time it just helped the enevotobal and was better it happend then when the truk was going slow than when it was going fast.

have to say i agree with bonehead that your freand is probubley hitting them at full speed causing damage they are no worse than a big bump in the feald  if he takes them slow then he and his kit will be fine and if he dosne well then axals will get snaped.

I have some our way that send you flying towards the cab roof if you are not careful but around here they call them potholes and bodged up repaired potholes! I think they had something bout speed humps on something like watchdog or the one show or something and about the damage they caused to vehicles. I have a feeling that if they are as Jacobus's too tall and steep you can claim off the council due to the fact they are illegal or something. Eith way I would have though if you could show they caused damge to your vehicles while not going over them at break neck speed then they should either sort them out and/or pay for the repairs.

wat till new years eav when every one is drunk and take the loder tractor out and do some landscaping problem solved:). yere there are some realy bad roads round here thow i dont dodge pothols last time i did i piled into a ditch:( . evan so thow if you take them SLOW then you shouldent have aney probelms

i can remember working on my uncles farm 4 years ago in a village in herts which had these speed humps, and he too had many problems with machinery (nothing to do with maintenance) even had the draw bar on the trailer snap in two. this was despite slowing down for them. anyway he managed to get the council to dig most of them up due to persistence because they were too tall and too long. just shows that pen pushers can be overcome.