[AT] tractor wreck

Mon Sep 25 05:59:50 PDT 2006

I love to tell the story about a time I stumbled into Omaha, the only place
that passes for a city in Nebraska, about rush hour.  I was only doing ten
miles an hour over the speed limit so of course everyone was impatient with
me.  One guy in a big SUV pickup was right on my tail, dodging side to side
but all four lanes headed east were jammed so he was stuck...as was I.
Finally he whipped around me, pulled even, gave me The Look, and
sped...twenty feet ahead.  He never got much more ahead of me than that
until I got off I-80.  Thing is, as he passed I could see why he was so
impatient.  He had his cart and golf clubs in the back.  See, he was in a
hurry to relax.

At this very moment I can hear cars speeding by our gate on the highway.  I
know who they all are since there are only 350 people in this town.  They
all know exactly  how long it takes them to get to their jobs, exactly what
time they need to leave to get there, and they all leave EXACTLY six minutes
too late.  Which means they all have to drive like idiots every day.  I love
it when my scanner blares with the names of these same Einsteins being
stopped yet once again.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] tractor wreck

> Hi Roger,
>
> Here in NC farm equipment actually has legal right of way, year 'round, on
> almost all highways (except interstates and some freeways).  They don'
have
> to get out of the way but most of the time they do if they can.
> I agree with you.  I always try to remember to stay out of the way of a
> working man and that even includes trucks on the highway.  If they want to
> get by I let them go and I will not pass a truck unless I relatively sure
> I'm not going to get in his way up the road a ways.  If I meet a big farm
> tractor that is taking up and entire 2 lane road I'll pull off the road
and
> let him have it rather than making him find a place to get off.   That all
> comes from having "been there and done that" as folks say.
>
> I haven't operated a BIG farm tractor in many years but the last time I
did
> I was moving it down a 2 lane road with narrow shoulders and lots of signs
> and mail boxes with a 18' wide disc harrow behind it.  Traffic started to
> back up behind me.  I found a spot to pull off on the shoulder but could
not
> get over far enough for the disc to get completely out of the other lane.
> The cars behind me would not go around.  Ok, I drove a few hundred yard
> further down the road and pulled over again in a little better place.
Still
> the last disc blade on the rear was a little over the center line.  The
> woman in the first car behind me would not pass and no one behind her
would
> come around.  NO PROBLEM.  I pulled back in the road and 5 MILES later at
> about 15 miles an hour I got to where I was going and got out of their
way.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "captneb" <captneb at agristar.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] tractor wreck
>
>
> > Most of the complaining about slow farm traffic around here comes from
> > urban
> > half wits going no where in a big hurry.  I give as much latitude as
> > possible to the folks making food and earning a living.  Rarely is
> > anything
> > I'm doing or anywhere I'm going more important than what they're doing,
> > especially at this time of the year.  The law of right of way should be
> > "At
> > harvest the farmer rules the road."  And that's the way I operate.  It's
> > not
> > that tough and they need all the help we can give them.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <DAVIESW739 at aol.com>
> > To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 11:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] tractor wreck
> >
> >
> >> I drive my tractors on the back roads around here a lot of the time. I
> >> always try to be nice to the cars but I also keep about half of the
> > tractor on  the
> >> road so as to make them slow up and pass when safe. I know some people
> > think
> >> its road hogging but think of it as my life that is an danger of some
> > Idiot
> >> who  thinks he owns the road. I try not to drive on the main roads but
> > there
> >> are two  here that I have to drive on at times. I do look for pull out
> >> and
> > use
> >> them to  let the traffic pass safely but Oregon doesn't like to build
> >> much
> > road
> >> beyond  the pavement.
> >> Walt Davies
> >>
> >> Ok I took the bull by the horns for Robert Gee when he was in the
> >> hospital
> >> so lets get someone else to take this one. If I get the name of the man
> > and
> >> hospital I will send him a Teddy bear.
> >>
> >>
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