We think we have isseus moving on the Road!!!

JD Seller · Sep 4, 2015

This video made me pucker just watching it!!! LOL The thought of a LEFT turn would be BAD!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb0SrPJTeqg
Scary road to move machinery on

BANDITFARMER · Sep 4, 2015

Not in a MILLION years would I ever try that one. I have had enough scary rides on tractors and combines to ever try something like that ride. Slow motion terror! Bandit

ObsoElitist · Sep 5, 2015

It looks like fun, but I am used to mountain trails. The overhang would probably prevent moving it on a lowboy there.

I have a friend who owns the largest vinyards in California's Shenandoah Valley. The place has become infested with boutique wineries that buy most of their grapes, and he will not move machinery across roads on weekends due to drunk drivers. They are more dangerous than an immovable object.

Locals say, "Napa makes auto parts, Calaveras makes wine"

bill mart · Sep 5, 2015

why doesn't he pull over to let those cars pass

bill

ASEguy · Sep 5, 2015

I think I'd buy another one and leave it over there.

fixerupper · Sep 5, 2015

But the view from the cab is terrif, I mean terrific.

fixerupper · Sep 5, 2015

But the view from the cab is terrif, I mean terrific.

JDNewbie · Sep 5, 2015

I'm asking out of complete ignorance, so please help me understand. I don't have any experience driving a combine or a truck.

I would think the scariest part of that drive would be relying on the brakes. On a big truck, precautions are taken to use a lower gear, exhaust brakes, etc. In what way would that combine be equipped to make a descent on grade over a distance like that? What would one have to do differently to keep from riding the brakes? Do they have a hydraulic means of moving or do they have gears/transmission like a truck? Would that make it more or less worrisome? Would a hydraulic system give the operator more control? I wouldn't think the brakes on a combine would be built with a trip like that in mind.

Just curious. Thanks for any responses.

Goose · Sep 5, 2015

I agree. I was once doing a custom combining job cutting milo on a side hill with a 20' gully at the bottom of the hill.

The ground was frozen when I started in the morning and everything worked fine. Then the ground thawed just enough to become slick. I hit a spot about 50 yards above the gully when the combine started sliding down the hill. I stopped, and every time I did something to try to move the combine, it slid several feet further downhill. We finally got the biggest tractor in the field, hooked onto the back of the combine, and pulled it to safe ground.

I worked on another side of the field until conditions were better on the side hill.

used red MN · Sep 5, 2015

Most all modern combines built since the 1980s have hydrostatic drive systems. The drive system
has adequate braking in itself and is capable of resisting downhill motion for an indefinite amount
of time with no additional heat build up or other damage. If you have ever been around a lawn
tractor with hydrostatic drive the response to the hydro speed control is similar.

bill mart · Sep 5, 2015

another high pucker factor ride. Bill
grader on rope bridge

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