[garybristow]

Just been watching some videos on Truckmount forums,the Americans seem to have better chemicals and better machines and accessories than us!!
Or am I talking out of my preverbial. !!!
Gary

[Simon Gerrard]

Yes

[Mike Halliday]

Don't we live in a global community, what do they have that we don't??

I would guess all the have is PTO Truckmounts  which I haven't seen here, most other stuff eventually ends up over here

[Buckland]

Mike - I remember a thread on here or TMers where there was talk that a PTO would be illegal if left on the public road (not sure about private property drives etc) with a vehicle engine running whereas a secondary or donkey motor is legal in UK - shame if true because it makes alot of sense and I would have tried to get hold of one to play with by now if there were any here - never heard of anyone running a Hydramaster pto for instance

dave

[Adrian Walton]

I think there may be a way around this as some vans have pto driven road compressors in them and I've seen some that have a way of removing the ignition key but still leaves the van running.

[Mike Halliday]

A PTO machine in a can would be considered a piece of plant so would (I think) be examp from tax and could be ran on red diesel

This quite a gray area with truckmounts once the machine is running and pipe leading into a home it is no longer classed a road vehicle

[PaulKing]

yes mikes right but need to be registered from new but as road fund tax is increasing and red diesel so cheap it might make new van "free" over the years. anyone fancy looking into it

i know theres a pumping equipment exception as well

[Buckland]

If you can run a diesel plant engine on red and pay for it at a tax free (or lower/subsidised rate) then the same should apply to petrol burnt in a plant engine - no sense in that at all - I feel like an appeal to the european court of something or other - bound not to be the first time this has been raised...