XJ&CHZ4ME
NAXJA Forum User
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- Unionville, MO
Da boy must have been from the city.
Occasionally, I see farm equipment on Highway 52 here. 18' wide equipment and 70+mph traffic don't mix well. Shoot, last fall, I followed 3 combines pulling their headers on trailers behind them go right through town.
We get a quick turn over in city cops and hwy patrols up here b/c it is a training country for the HP. There is the occcassional new cop that writes tickets for even something as simple as a license plate light being burnt out...our Judge typically dimsisses those cases if brought to them. I will occassionally road the combine w/ the corn head on if it is just a few miles on a county road, but I have the decency to pull onto the shoulder to let people by and I have Camille and my hired guy running ahead and behind me with flashers.
No way in hell I could road it with a 30+ ft bean head going down a 2 lane road...no room. I trailer it, even between close fields b/c it is even too wide to get through the gates at the field enterances.
harvest season brings many traffic backups in my area. I especially like the farmers that are too lazy to pull the duals off when they roadie it. Making it impossible to pass, or for oncoming traffic to get by.
Apparantly you have not had to take off too many duals, depending on if they are bolt on or clamp on, they can take a lot of work and time. My platform/deck on my combine is wider then my duals on it so taking off duals would not benefit anything other then create a lot more work for nothing. Even my field tractors that I run duals on are able to be kept on one lane of road and I just run the right side dual over the shoulder and it makes it so anyone can pass me the same as if I were driving a truck. It sounds like you have some inconsiderate assbags that just dont want to share the road. I was raised that you always pull over to let traffic by unless your on an uphill run (for accidents sake). I even pull over when hauling trailers or anything where I am the reason traffic is slowed down. Most the guys I farm around or hang out with that are farmers are all good about this...we have to be in the county that we are in, roads are dangerous and lots of hills and blind curves.
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