[AT] Haybine arrival

[charlie hill]

David, this bridge is as long as the Bonner bridge but luckily
is 2 lanes each way and divided.  Still with 12' traffic lanes and
about 3 feet on each side there is only about 30' for a really wide
piece of equipment to pass through and traffic backs up behind them.
They remove the grain headers from their combines and haul them on
trailers.  That helps.  Thankfully North Carolina recognizes the importance
of farming and doesn't make them get wide load permits to transport
equipment.  A logging company these days spends thousands of dollars
in permits and escort costs just to move their equipment from one timber
tract to the next.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: David Bruce
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 10:25 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Haybine arrival

Charlie I've been in your area and you in mine. Some same issues but
some quite different. Our "farm to market" roads are simply to narrow
for modern farm equipment.  I suspect there will be no answer for that.

I have this image of that sort of equipment on the Bonner bridge <shudders>.

David
NW NC

On 7/12/2015 9:39 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> David, this is the bridge.  It's 65 feet or so above the water at it's
> high point.
> It is multi lane but it's a freeway with 65 mph speed limit and very
> little
> space between the edge of the lanes and the concrete retaining walls.
> Heading east it's a bit over 2 1/2 miles to where he can pull over
> counting
> the entrance ramp.  Heading back west it's just over 2 miles. This is
> actually
> an improvement because before they built this bridge 10 or so years
> ago there
> were actually two bridges. One was one mile long 2 lane draw bridge
> with 2 way traffic and NO room to move over
> and the other was about 1/2 mile long, also a draw bridge and
> constructed exactly the same
> way.  In between the two were 3 blocks of town traffic.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- From: David Bruce
> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 7:54 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Haybine arrival
>
> Charlie we have some of the same issues here (except for the big
> bridges). I can see why he would have a problem with nerves. The traffic
> level here is a bit lower but we are beginning to get those refugees
> from the city who think that are the most important thing period. Added
> to that the size of the farming equipment has been getting steadily
> larger. As for me I can stay calm and pull over to help the guys along
> their way.
> I simple can't imagine someone driving the big AG equipment on a 2 mile
> bridge si I can understand his problem.
>
> A lot of the farm fields here are less than 5 acres. I just don't get
> using a 50' spray rig in such confines.
>
> David
> NW NC


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