I know one thing for sure, if I had ever blocked traffic for a long time when I had the chance to pull over and let them by on of my Gramp's rigs, he woulda chewed my a@@ 'till I had to sh$% in a washtub- just plain rude. He was the local IH dealer, and limespreader, and we had several farms, so he was pretty well known with a good reputation that he earned, so.. We had a a pair of 706D's, a 93 combine and a lever-steer 91- nobody had combines much bigger at the time in that part of NY. We had an old hay wagon to move the 16' drag harrows, pulled 'em on sideways and pulled with the pickup. I started roading the equipment at 11, after a while when I got some experience, he would send me off and catch up on the way. Widest thing we pulled was a 13' wide disc, both combines had 10' heads, so about 12' overall. There's ALWAYS a place here and there to pull off the road for a minute and let the line go by- no excuse for arrogant blocking. On the lighter side, my first road trip (age 12) with the lever-steer 91- anyone who's never run one has missed out on a great amount of comedy relief- a very handy machine in some respects, and a rolling spaz attack in others. Top speed was a brisk walking space, and as experienced 91 guys will tell you, you had to adjust the air pressure in the drive tires to get it to go straight with the planetary steering, and it wasn't quite right- needed a "course correction" about every 75 ft. Pretty hilarious to watch it twitch 'n waddle down the road from behind, but the trip being about 10 miles, it quickly became un-funny if you were in the seat. You want big arms? Cruise a crooked-steering 91 for a couple hours... I get about a half mile from home, state hwy at that point, wide paved shoulders, no problem- then I see the Plymouth with the bubble-gum machine on the roof behind me- but it happened to one of a pair of brothers, both statey's, who also owned the local Ski-Doo and Yamaha shop- of which I had one of each, both needing a fair amount of "maintenance" work due to my gentle operation... plus my Dad was state BCI, so to say the least, they knew us well. So he stays behind for a while watching the waddling show, then pulls alongside and sees who it is, and yells "GET THAT POS OFF THE ROAD!!!" and speeds off laughing. Forward about 25 yrs, I running a CAT 140 grader on a city paving job, and had to run from one street site to another, and this city motor cop pulls me over- he's gonna give me a ticket for no SMV emblem. So I tell him it doesn't need one, doesn't go that slow- he gets pissy and tells me anything 25 mph and under needs one, so I tell him, "This thing goes 26 MPH" So now he's really getting pissy, thinks I'm just being a smarta@@, maybe a little true, but I produce the op manual from behind the seat which states "Top Speed 26 MPH"... By now, the owner of our company, a well-known "screamer" pulls up, and I hand of to him and watch the rest of the show At another outfit I worked for, myself and one other guy did all the large dozer work, so both of our company trucks had signs & beacons, so whoever was going to do the job ran pilot, and the other drove the Mack hauling the dozer. Coming in from one end of town required us to turn left at a major intersection in town, 4 lanes all ways with left turn pockets. So if you were first in line in the left turn pocket, the dozer blade on one of the D8's would hang about halfway into the first lane- and you'd always get the Bozo in a pickup that would drive around the blade and park in front of it, beside the Mack- left turn light goes green, and you're stuck- can't move without making a roadster out of the pickup, and the light doesn't want to change with the transport & dozer sitting on the sensing loops...
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