Posted by paul on October 19, 2016 at 06:39:46 from (66.60.223.229):
In Reply to: BTO on 4 lane highway posted by dlbuck on October 18, 2016 at 20:25:39:
I have taken my 20 foot bean head down county roads in the daytime. Watching for cars and mailboxes is interesting. I try to be very careful on letting other folk travel safely.
On a 4 lane road there is more room; but folks are expecting to travel fast and unobstructed on the main 4 lanes. I would not take a wide implement on one if I could help it.
If it was a really big combine, the header should have been on a trailer, pulled sideways.
Traveling at night or at dusk with such stuff is really a tough deal. Would be best to time things out differently.
We came across a bto going down the county blacktop last week. They were actually doing a good job. Grain cart and tractor, bean head and pickup, combine. Each had rear red and flasher lights, no white lights to the rear. They were spaced far enough apart you could pass one item at a time. Very busy state 2 lane road parallels this county road, they were on the less traveled one. I was impressed.
Couple days ago the neighbor got stuck on a field approach with a semi. Got the tractor, grain cart, and semi all muddied up and pulling up onto the county road. The whole mess was parked for a time on the county road as they sorted stuff out. It is a dangerous S curve with hills right there, I think they could have worked something better out, at least even going the other direction pulling out onto the county road would have parked the whole train on a safer spot, and the semi would have had to travel 2 extra miles is all to get back where headed. I think they should have done better than they did, glad nothing happened but it looked bad. Looked like they focused on their issue, and not on what was safest or on others.....
That's the big deal I guess, as we are focused on our own deal and our harvest, we need to take a breath and think of others.
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