Posted by fixerupper on October 19, 2016 at 07:16:17 from (100.42.83.79):
In Reply to: BTO on 4 lane highway posted by dlbuck on October 18, 2016 at 20:25:39:
Moving at night is not that dangerous as long as the slow equipment has proper lighting. And the equipment operator doesn't get a big head because he is in a big machine. The car behind the equipment can see a car coming from the other direction because he can see the headlights. I have been there many, many times and I am still very uneasy with every move on the road day or night. I have seen the bashed in rear of a combine, the header ripped off the feeder house and the flattened, bent left dual wheel on the front of the combine from being hit by a vehicle. This was on someone else's machinery but nonetheless I saw the carnage.
The header should have been put on a trailer. It's not that hard today with the single point attachment arrangement. The grain cart guy could have driven a pickup pulling the header trailer. On a four lane the header trailer needs adequate warning lights and should be behind the combine. Once the header is back on the combine in the next field the combine can open a parking space in the field, then the grain cart driver and combine driver runs the pickup back to the last field to where the grain cart is waiting for him. Then he can bring the cart to the field with the combine driver following him with the pickup. The cart driver cannot see anything behind, that is why the pick follows him. It takes more time but if the combine is in an accident the combiner has it to his defense the fact that he tried to get as narrow as possible before he made the move and the cart was escorted so the cart driver will know if it is safe to make a move. When we are driving a combine or other large machinery down the road cars look small when viewed from the driver's seat but those cars have human lives in them. They might or might not have any common sense but they are still human. Nuff said!
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