In my view farmers get away with too much when it comes to hauling heavy loads on county roads. Around here in our flatter country farmers pull two wagons that collectively haul more than a semi can legally haul. When they pull on the scale at the elevator they will weigh 110,000-120,000 pounds including the tractor. The weight of the grain is on four axles,with single wheels, equating to up to 15,000 pounds per axle. That is an overloaded axle on a truck with single wheels.
One day at the local elevator a farmer I know who has four of these huge wagons bragged to me about not having to pay for a license or heavy road use tax on his wagons. The next year the hitch pin broke when he was pulling two of those wagons down the road and both wagons ended on their sides in the ditch. He cleaned up the mess and pulled the bent up wagons home with no consequences from the law. If a truck loses the trailer the DOT would be right there with a ticket book in hand.
Our heavy clay soil profile gives good support for our gravel roads so we don't see much damage from heavy loads even in moderately wet weather. We do have trouble in the spring before the frost goes completely out but the truckers are pretty respectful and stay off if it is too soft. Feed trucks, rendering trucks and livestock haulers still use the roads when they are soft out of necessity and they do try to get most of the loads hauled at night or in the early morning while the roads are frozen.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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