Re: Another farmer killed

Posted by The tractor vet on April 03, 2014 at 10:22:18 from (75.19.115.57):

In Reply to: Re: Another farmer killed posted by nhboyd on April 03, 2014 at 06:47:41:

Lights , light ya say , really .Let me tell ya about lights , i have installed lights on all of our equipment that prevents us from seeing behind . The silage wagons are the one piece of equipment that we can not see behind and it is the one piece that is used on the road for the longest time frame . I set up every tractor that will pull those wagons on the road with good lights flashers and turn signals and running lights . Does it help Not one bit . You signal for a left turn way ahead of the turn and each and almost every time some idiot will pass happens almost everytime . One time this idiot came around about five other cars passen on a double yellow line on a hill and a curve and i was already across the other lane just about to enter the farm lane when here he came down thru the ditch behind the mailbox across the lane down into the ditch and back up on the road giving me the finger , Last fall one of the guys was making a left turn on a township road and was half way across the oncoming lane when he was passed by a county mounty that was plum flying with not flasher going passing at and intersection on a double yellow line on a hill went down into the ditch across the town shipo road just clipping the stop sign into the other ditch back up on the roadway fish tailing across both lanes . I saw it all happen as i was up on top of the silage pile and had a perfect view of it all . People don't care about your fancy lights they don't pay attention they just know that you are not running 70 MPH in a 55 and they have to Go and you are holding them up. I have been passed in the blind curve to the right with a hill when i am in the bottom and even setting up high on the tractor i can not see the other side of the hill. Head light flashers and turn signals are just good aiming points for them . Same way with hauling oversized loads , all the flags signs flasher strobes and rotary beacons are just aiming points and mean nothing to the four wheelers at all. I use to haul the big ugly high wide and heavy loads sometimes weighing in at three to four times the legal gross , no not super big loads but big enough . You would have had to spned a week riding with me to see it all first hand and that would be only a small taste . Even with state cops working with you with one in front and TWo behind you can not believe what people will do to be at the ft. of the pac. The best one that happened to me was moving a 12 foot wide load from New Jersey to just west of Pittsbug. It was a Military load and they only way to get it there was the Pa . turn pike Normally 10 foot is MAx width but since it was Mil. and the only way due to construction on the other routes we were granted access but with State police escort . The load barley fit thru the gate getting on the pike . I had to meet up with a state cop a couple miles down the road at a wide point . I was there before he ws . When he arrived we had our meeting and made sure every bit of paper work was correct . As we talked i asked him what he wanted me to run for speed , he said well we don't want to hold traffic up anymore then we have to so just how fast can you go with this load . Being the smart arrse i am i said a lot faster then you would like me to go , well how fast with this load i told him that with the Hp. i had and gearing i could hold 85 with not problem and that is not flat out , oh so we could run say 75 them , yes even on the hills . Well you know you are to use BOTH lanes , yes , and use the center going thru the tunnles , yes ok let go oh what channel do you want to use on the C B and off we went with him behind me running down the center of the pike west bound at 75 MPH . Things were going well till this one west bound freight box caught up to us , now mid ya i was running 75 and he caught up to us . He was dead on the cops bumper and stayed there . When we came apon the one mountain where there are curves and three lanes leading up to the one tunnel i had backed down to about 65 for the turns and was holding it when this IDIOT passed us on the right over on the burm and off he went . The cop told me that just as soon as we cleared the tunnel would i be ok by myself till the next trade off point when i meet up with the next cop as he really wanted to have a talk with that IDIOT in the black freight box . Yep i'll be fine and the min. we cleared the tunnel i moved over so he could get around me and he was GONE and i went back to hoggen both lanes and the fun was on now that he had left me as there were people tryen to get past on both side with no place to go even at 75 MPH. They were stuck behind me for the next twenty miles where i had to meet up with the next cop. OH BTW the cop did get that black freight box . And i do know that it cost him dearly for his shell we say creative driving to the tune of 1250 bucks.

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