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Formerly PaMike

11-17-2006 09:26:37

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I was heading to work the other morning and it was about dawn. As I rounded the corner in my truck I see two headlights in my lane coming straight at me. I slam on the brakes and am about ready to send my truck into the ditch when I realize the lights are not coming at me as fast as they should. I stay in my lane and creep on at about 10 mph because I have no idea whats going. As I get closer I find its a Menninite farmer with a steel wheel tractor on the road. He is headed in the same direction as me, and he has his two rear field lights on. No blinking red or orange. What I thought were headlights were his rear field lights. He is pulling a wagon with no lights on it, and one tattered SMV sigh that is half covered in dirt or manure, while driving on a road with sharp curves and a speed limit of 45 mph. Now I know why people catagorize us as "Dumb Farmers".

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Oldmax

11-18-2006 19:18:47

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

I have a 1715 Ford/New Holand Which has all the warning lights / Plus Triangle But also have added Yellow Strobe to Rops Turned Upside down so not to knock off on tree limbs Still don't run on hiway when I can Trailer . Wears out Tires
in hurry on Blacktop .

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doogdoog

11-18-2006 00:49:23

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

Aloha, If I was driving a slow moving vehicle, I would mount a strobe light on the rops or roof. If it didn't have either, then I would get a piece of pipe and mount it on the top about roof height. Better to be safe than sorry.

Mahalo,
doogdoog

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Burnie

11-17-2006 21:47:40

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

We're pretty lucky where I am. Last week I did an escort for a JD8310 and 8 row end-tow planter. Most people were pretty good, except for a couple of truckies who though they owned the road and seem to enjoy biting the hand that feeds them.

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NC Wayne

11-17-2006 19:03:05

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

I don't drive a tractor on the road tha often unless it's to bring a customers machine to the shop to work on. In my experience though it doesn't seem to matter wether you have lights or not, the idiots in the other vehicles do whatever they please. I had to bring a customers old IH back to the shop a few years back. It was in borad daylight and did have the warning triangle on the rear but since it was coming down a winding road I had Dad following me close in his service truck with his flashers on too. Before I had gone 4 miles I'd already had three cars pass both me and dad's truck, all while going through two back to back blind curves. It's good to be legal but it doesn't seem to make a real difference either way til someone gets theirself killed...Just my .02

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jdmike

11-17-2006 16:24:32

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

While I am not on the road in a farm tractor, my small JD 140 Garden tractor plows many driveways in the late evening during our winter storms here in Erie, PA. I have two amber double sided fender flashers, a scaled down SMV triangle on the back of the seat, I know its not legal but the full size one was way to large. I also have a rear field flood pointed down at the ground so as not to blind the traffic. When I have to go out on the road or between driveways going down the road, I always watch the traffic behined me and pull into a drive if need be for them to pass. My trouble is people stopping while straddling both lanes to ask me to come up and plow thier drive. Keep safe out there! Mike and Michele T

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Rauville

11-17-2006 16:05:56

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

There is case here that I believe is still pending from a few years ago. A woman was killed when she came up behind a local farmer that was on the road after dark with his tractor and rear mounted bale spear. He was transporting a round bale in the bucket / grapple plus one on the rear spear. The only rear light was a single field light (mounted on top edge of the cab) that police theorize confused the woman into thinking it was a distant oncoming vehicle.

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Bus Driver

11-17-2006 15:25:52

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

I converted one of my Cubs (7 MPH road speed) to 12 volts so that it could power some real warning lights. On the rear, I have an amber 55 watt halogen driving light on a flasher. It seems to only make the motorists angry. They will pass with no sight distance on our narrow 18 foot road, each lane 9 feet wide.

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Daves 40 acre

11-17-2006 10:56:11

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

I have been guilty of not having the proper lighting, but this year I will be getting some of those clip on bicycle lights or stobe lights for the hay wagons, I don't want to be another statistic

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Animal

11-17-2006 10:00:17

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

Do they make any battery powered red or yellow lights, my roads are busy too?

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Mark in Iowa

11-17-2006 18:32:42

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Animal, 11-17-2006 10:00:17

Yes there are FLASHING STROBE lites ...uses 4 AA batterys with magnets on back.... I got them for my Case La...it only goes 10 -- 12 mph...I got 2 put them on top of the fenders and anyone behind me sees them clearly Mark

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jddriver

11-17-2006 10:23:23

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Animal, 11-17-2006 10:00:17

I have three battery powered strobe lights that I can see two miles away.I got them at a farm show in KCMo.I also got three rotators from whelen that VERY bright even in the day time.Steve

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glennster

11-17-2006 10:12:49

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Animal, 11-17-2006 10:00:17

go to your local bicycle shop. they have battery powered flashing red rear lites that clip on. they are about the size of a clearance lamp, have 2 penlite batteries, they have several rows of red led's. they have 4 different settings, blink steady on, strobe and a sweep back and forth. about 6.00 ea. they work good n a pinch

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Bill from MA

11-18-2006 06:21:47

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to glennster, 11-17-2006 10:12:49

Make sure you get the ones that take AAA batteries and not "N" or watch batteries. "N"'s are sometimes tought to find and the watch batteries cost more.

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Nebraska Cowman

11-17-2006 09:54:52

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

People must not think how visable (or invisable) they are to traffic. I live right on a major highway and it cscares me. I travel it with machinery in full daylight only. There is a stretch to the north that is shaded by trees. I try to avoid that in the late afternoon.

Even bad boys are just as good as they can be

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i bleed orange

11-17-2006 09:30:59

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Re: Tractor safety on the road in reply to Formerly PaMike, 11-17-2006 09:26:37

what kind of tractor was it. and where did tis happin?

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