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Seriously, the fault would be that of the overtakee? The overtakee has to see the overtaker in the mirror, where as the overtaker is going to be seeing the overtakee through the whole of the manoeuver (someone overtaking in this situation doesn't check their mirrors before they overtake ), AND has time to sound their horn to alert the overtakee.

That said, overtakee is almost certainly capable of stopping an accident through careful observation, as Adam has been doing so far - but I don't have much sympathy with someone hitting it.

I will illaberate (sp??).

The road is a faily busy b road. The very last sign is red triangel with a picture of a tractor and the words Farm Traffic. There is a straight pice of road then it bares to the right, but you can't see throught the corner. After the corner ther is enough straight to do a quick overtake. The end od the corner is many be 50 yards from the farm enterance. The road goes east west and this is normally in the monring on the way in so any bs about I can't see you lights is out, cos the sun is on my back. ALL the lights work on our machines and they are dead easy to see.

When I'm on my tractor I just think, go on make my day. The sprayer guy also reports people overtaking him as he turns into the yard. You don't need to hit a sprayer. They smell and are full of chemicals that people with sandles and beards complain about. The only way I've found to stop them on me tractor is to have the right wheels over the centre line and some times you still get the odd clown.

Blocking the road on a decent size tractor is faily easy, less so on a C90.

I get over before the corner opens up and indicate and am right on the center line as I approach the turning, but they still nip past. In the last month I've had a disco a fiesta and a bandit do this to me on my bike.
Grrr.

I brought this up on my first advanced course and the BIB said keep turning (on tractor) and if they hit you we'll throw the book at them...

I was following a tractor and trailer which pulled out in front of me in Germany last week. The trailer was full of big branches and stuff and you couldn't see the tractor from behind. I'm sitting in a right-hand drive car on the right-hand side of the road so I decide to wait a bit and see what happens before attempting an overtake. The driver (very sensibly IMO) moves to the centre of the road and turns left.
Reverse this for the UK - why don't you straddle the centre line in your tractor, Adam, then other drivers will be much more careful about attempting an overtake. They won't be sure if you're going right or left (to go into a field maybe?).