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If you make hay or forage, and you have ground next to a main road, it is extremely important to follow safe mowing procedures. You must put a "holiday" within three swaths of the road so that when the mowing inspectors drive by they can see evidence of your sloppy work at a glance and not have to endanger others on the road by scanning your whole field in order to see evidence of poor work.
 
I was baling next to a road that has
heavy traffic, but on this day it was
busier then usual due to an accident on
the highway moved all the traffic to my
road. Thought I was putting on a good
show bales dropping out nice and
square. Then I caught sight of the
wheel on the baler looked wobbly.
Stopped as far from the road to look at
it all the lug bolts fell out except
one that was barely hanging on. Got
lucky the wheel didn't come off for
everyone to see. Was still embarrassed.
 
Unless there was another farmer passing by the average person wouldn't have a clue what your are doing. I see people pass a field I'm in with my old machinery all the time and rarely see them look over.
 
like cultivating corn along the road. Always seem to be bad case of cultivator blight where everyone can see it.
 
I remember always having to get the stalks
buried plowing and the rows straight.
But it doesn't have to be by the road i had
a cousin helping one year asked him if he
knew how to cut hay he said yes so i sent
him to the field farthest from the road. I
started chores and then went to check on him
he was cutting by driving in the standing
hay he had seen me open a field by cutting
backwards . it was a mess i told a neighbor
he could have as he chopped and i didn't he
said it was the most expensive free hay he
ever had. But within hours everyone knew
about it and the best part when i got him
straightened out he said it was easier
cutting driving the correct way a scary
thought he's now a registered nurse
 
Best comment Showcrop!

I remember forgetting to twine wrap a round bale before I dumped it out of the baler. Yep - right on the headland where everybody could see it.
 
(quoted from post at 09:06:44 02/10/17) Best comment Showcrop!

I remember forgetting to twine wrap a round bale before I dumped it out of the baler. Yep - right on the headland where everybody could see it.
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My buddy was baling a steep hillside on the back side of a pond which is right on the side of the road. He was ejecting a bale and was starting to wonder when it was going to roll out, when he turned and looked to the left, it was just rolling into the pond. He had to try a few different lures before he found one that would catch it so that he could pull it out. He was fishing for it beside the road for over an hour.
 
I saw that same kind of thing along the road just yesterday. A Ford F350 or 450 dually sitting along the road with the rears half off on the drives side.
 
How about unloading the combine bin into a gravity box with its door open , pointing to the road ditch? And this is about midnite. Lots of talk at the coffee shop early the next morning , guessing how many bushels were in the ditch. Nope, this did not happen to me.
 
Neighbor was setting out round bales and unrolling them down the hill. He set one down the wrong way went to unroll it and it didn't went through the fence across the
road missing a car and off a cliff into the creek, making a nice splash. Shure wish I had a camera.
 
Plowing with the semi-mount plow. Lift hitch and tail wheel and turn around simultaneously. Unbeknownst to me quick-klip had fallen out of one side of 2-point so when I lifted, plow tipped whole upside down
on its back. Happened right along U.S. hyway 14 during afternoon rush hour.
 
Ive never had anything happen by my lonely gravel roads but if I do something stupid at home my neighbor who is the neighborhood 'news man' will invariably come driving in.
 
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