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Re: Tractor Rear Lighting

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nebraska cowman

06-10-2004 11:43:24

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Reading the posts below it seems like the tractor drivers think the car drivers should be more careful and the car drivers think the tractor should be more visable.
The TRUTH is you can only change what YOU are doing, not the other guy. So, be careful out there. Tractor drivers be as visable as you can and car drivers be watchful. Cows and deer don't have lights and who knows what else might be in the road. And that driver comimg up fast behind you might be distracted by a crying kid in the back seat or who knows what. Let's not meet on a dark night. Tin bends, people die.

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Ben in KY

06-11-2004 06:56:08

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Re: Re: Tractor Rear Lighting in reply to nebraska cowman, 06-10-2004 11:43:24

I guess we need to pass a law to make the deer wear warning lights :) It would work as well as some laws that are passed.

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UFO Man

06-10-2004 18:40:21

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Re: Re: Tractor Rear Lighting in reply to nebraska cowman, 06-10-2004 11:43:24

One of the reasons for my nickname is that what my tractor looks like on a highway at night.

Anybody that hits my tractor is driving with his eyes closed and can't see the glow through his eyelids. OR going way too fast on a back road.

I can't take any responsibility for anyone else's behavior, only my own. And I'm not telling a state trooper that them dead people are my fault because they couldn't see me.

If you can't do a job safely, it won't get done until someone figures out a way to get it done safely.

That's the most preaching I've done since my seminary days.

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Near Miss

06-10-2004 13:44:41

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Re: Re: Tractor Rear Lighting in reply to nebraska cowman, 06-10-2004 11:43:24

I started the discussion and am very aware of slow moving objects here in farm country. I drove country roads day and night with old time narrow implements and loads of hay (as a teenager). I feel not very good about the fact that I never even considered a white rear lighted tractor, possibly in my lane. We were NOT on the interstate, but both approaching the overpass to cross that road. My vision is at or above average according to testing. Most tractor drivers today have all kinds of flashing lights, thankfully. The tractor had a cab but the flashers were not on. Another incident yesterday also gave me pause: a Chevy pickup coming toward me moved to t he center of the two lane bridge as I approached, and I immediately slowed down to let him cross the bridge first (fairly long one). I thought it might be a gravity wagon or anhydrous tank wagons he was pulling and he wanted to be careful. OK by me, my time is not that precious, I can wait. But upon meeting him off the bridge, I was surprised to see a folded up field cultivator a nice blue one that took up the whole lane and then some. I had on dark glasses to cut the cloudy day sky glare and those glasses all but made the blue disappear from that implement which I would have normally seen 1/2 mile away. If only the the outer ends of the non folded part (near the hinge) had some high visibility white or other paint, I might have seen his towed load was much wider than his pickup. If you have stayed with me this far, I am not at all criticizing the farmer, but am sharing with all the need to aware that what you put on the road may not seem to be threatening to others. I anticipate approaching wide loads, noticing if they have mail boxes or other things to clear, needing my lane.....and I gladly give it to them.

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paul

06-10-2004 18:11:27

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Re: Re: Re: Tractor Rear Lighting in reply to Near Miss, 06-10-2004 13:44:41

Good points, good attitude.

If only auto drivers were 1/2 as aware..... When I go down the road, 3 out of 5 auto drivers do something stupid aproaching, passing, or merging back into the lane.

As the first poster said, farmers need to be aware & be smart. That is a 2-way street, as it were.

--->Paul

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