[AT] OT - Country music

[Ralph Goff]

I'm not sure what the law says here for who has the right of way on the 
roads I transport equipment. I know that it is just common sense (or 
courtesy) for the big, slower traffic to get out of the way and let the 
faster traffic pass through. From reading some of these posts on the subject 
I see I am very fortunate to not have any highway travelling when I 
transport between farms. Mine is mostly grid (gravel) roads. Well built up 
and mostly wide enough for two semis to meet without touching mirrors or 
hitting the soft shoulder. I'm also lucky that there is not a lot of traffic 
, most days. I have travelled the whole 9 miles some days at 15 mph and not 
seen another vehicle. Nice thing about gravel roads and straight roads is 
that I can always see a cloud of dust to indicate oncoming, traffic.
The creek crossing is a little more stressful as when I am at the bottom I 
can only see maybe an eigth of a mile ahead and behind so theres not much 
warning if high speed traffic should suddenly appear. If I'm transporting 
something wide I will usually try and arrange for a support vehicle to lead 
with two way radio contact so I know whats happening ahead of time and can 
pull over if necessary.
Re: the Craig Morgan song, I have never heard it but it sounds like he 
needed a bit of input from a "real farmer" when he was putting the lyrics 
together for the song. I almost never listen to "commercial radio" now so 
don't keep up with the latest music. I'm a talk radio fan and 99% of the 
time I will be tuned in to the good old CBC, (its on right now). No 
commercials, lots of interesting conversations, something like this list. 
:-)

Ralph in Sask.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Country music


>I guess it's all in how you take it.  Here in NC it's not against the law 
>to
> pull off the road BUT farm equipment has right of way everywhere but
> Interstates and limited access freeways.  Around here  farms are scattered
> out between subdivisions and woodland tracts.  Road shoulders are narrow 
> and
> usually have lots of signs and mailboxes in the way.  There is almost 
> always
> a ditch bank or trees or both just off the road shoulder.  It's almost
> impossible to get anything with a big disk, a planter, spray rig, combine,
> etc.  out of the way of traffic.
>
> I know one guy that worked on a local farm for many years.  He loves the
> work and he's good at it but the farmer leases land all around the county.
> The stress of driving the equipment on the highway between farms was more
> than the guy could take and he eventually quit his job JUST because of
> having to drive on the highway and be yelled at, cussed at and nearly run
> over by car and truck drivers that couldn't accept the fact that he could
> not get out of their way.
>
> Charlie