The only way you are going to be safe crossing a long bridge with a combine is if you have a patrol car with flashing lights sitting a half mine ahead or in this case behind the combine, with lights flashing, another patrol car at the 1/4 mile mark and another one right behind the machine. One time I was blocking a long bridge for a combine that was coming. I was in a crew cab pickup sitting sideways in the roadway in a 35 mph zone and a woman drove around the front of my pickup, almost hitting the bridge and drove onto the bridge only to find herself facing a combine. She just sat there so the combine driver folded up the ladder so she could squeak by. I'm not getting going about all the rest of the events I have had trying to slow traffic down for a combine coming through a bridge.
The way it looks this truck driver just wasn't paying attention. It could have been temporary help hired for the harvest. Around here at the beginning of harvest I see the non-professional farmer semi drivers driving like they haven't been behind the wheel for years, swinging way over wide for corners, dropping the rear tandems in the ditch on corners, missing the scale at the elevator, trying to take off with the brakes set and the list goes on . By the end of harvest they are doing pretty well but for the first week it's like amateur hour.
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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