Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Is it possible to license your offroad toy as a tractor so you can drive it to where you want to go? Obviously there may be some speed limitations and lighting required but surely would still be safer than a tractor on the road.

Brett S wrote:Is it possible to license your offroad toy as a tractor so you can drive it to where you want to go? Obviously there may be some speed limitations and lighting required but surely would still be safer than a tractor on the road.

Im sure there was a massive thread on this in the past, and the answer was no. could be wrong

Some states have rules regarding "individually constructed vehicles" or "conditional registration".


What you're proposing would fit under these guidelines.

Or build a mini crawler...... that fits on an 8x4 trailer.

This is possible in SA at least, don't know what other states regs are.

Rules for useage are tight though, and fines apply for incorrect useage
(I once got fined $750.oo coz I was towing a load of somebody else's oranges)

Not a bad idea, but with my tractor I have to prove I am a primary producer to get conditional registration. We have special forms from our accountants for this. To get the tractor done costs bugger all a year, i think about $150 or so. You just need flashing lights and usual warning/headlights. You don't have to get it inspected just fill out a form. I would try for "plant". You may have joy here.

You would be better off to try for conditional rego as a ATV

or just buy a trailor

try and go for club rego all you need is roadworthy tyres and working lights and be a member of a club. thats what all the hotrods have

Ruggers wrote:try and go for club rego all you need is roadworthy tyres and working lights and be a member of a club. thats what all the hotrods have

its a bit more involved than that...

In Vic have to be a memeber of a club which is listed by VicRoads. Had a look today. No 4wd clubs, only car car clubs. (ie hot rod, antique, vintage.......)



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Pharb wrote:In Vic have to be a memeber of a club which is listed by VicRoads. Had a look today. No 4wd clubs, only car car clubs. (ie hot rod, antique, vintage.......)

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Cant you aproach them about setting up a 4wd division?

In Tassie 'tractors' can be registered subject to having lights, brakes etc. There's no inspection and is/was no need to prove your a primary producer.....also you can get a permit to move unregistered vehicles from A to B (used to cost 30 bucks and lasted a couple of days). This may have been tightended now, but in the past we used it to move all sorts of machinery over distances.

Tassie also has RV (Recreational Vehicle) registration, say to register your tractor/4wd to run in designated areas eg., from the shack to the beach to launch a boat etc.

You may be able to register a modified 4wd as a tractor here - depends on the definition of 'tractor'. Worth a look..... but there's little doubt the authorities would stop this if it were to become popular!

I have heard of a local bloke around here in WA that had a spray boom on the back of his 4wd ute that he used for spraying in his padocks that was caught for over width (or length cant remember). When he went to try and get it passed they said why not register it as a tractor so he did and ended up paying like a quarter of his normal licence bill.

ausyota wrote:I have heard of a local bloke around here in WA that had a spray boom on the back of his 4wd ute that he used for spraying in his padocks that was caught for over width (or length cant remember). When he went to try and get it passed they said why not register it as a tractor so he did and ended up paying like a quarter of his normal licence bill.

but then he is subject to all the conditions of the "conditional tracktor registration"

like, he can never drive it during peak hours, never on a freeway, etc etc.

this must vary from State to State cause in Tassie you see tractors on the freeways all the time and they hold up the traffic real good!

Bloke up the road has tractors that are used on the main highway to Hobart all the time, ie when he goes to and returns from his daily jobs.

Never seen him pulled over (unlike the modified 4x4s that are getting caned by the cops here nowadays)