[AT] D17 with front fenders--lights ane signals

[John Hall]

 Mattias, driving tractors on the road depends a lot where you live. I hate 
doing it here now. When I was 14 I didn't think anything of it. Our 
population has increased greatly and the new folks are clueless about farm 
equipment. We never had but one tractor and a combine with turn signals. On 
the ones that had it we would run our flashers. Fortunately we never had any 
problems, and a lot of our driving was on a 4 lane highway.  It was rare for 
us to move equipment after dark. I can only think of 2 occasions. Once the 
combine was on fire and we were driving it in to get to a water source. The 
other was a Friday night and we had finished up a farm about 15 miles from 
home. We had spent most of the afternoon fixing a flat rear tire in the 
rain. When I pulled under the shed that night at 10:00 I heard the same tire 
going flat again.

Come to think of it we did have one wreck with a motor vehicle. It was a 
snow plowing accident. Totaled a Chevy Blazer ('70s model) and busted the 
block in a JD 4020. Fortunately nobody was hurt.

I did come close to hitting a tobacco harvester 2 years ago. Its about the 
size of a small combine with no header. The darn thing was painted dark 
green and had no operating lights on the back. It was easy to overtake at 60 
mph on a 4-lane highway. It wasn't too close of a call but...

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] D17 with front fenders


> Sometimes you guys surprise me. Might be that fenders would look stupid on
> old tractors were they aren't supposed to be. Otherwise I knew a few times 
> I
> would have wished for some on my DB, OK maybe I would have bent them
> slightly in the forest at some times... but on a new tractor?
>
> So you mean you would get out on a big public road without turn signals!?
> Without light in the dark to?? Not all farmers here have that good lights 
> on
> their wagons either but we have accidents from that too.
>
> Sometimes you amazes me...
>
> Mattias
>