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Rubble strips!!!! LOL

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JD Seller

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Reading the post down below about the Moline tractor got me to remembering something. He was talking about a fellow driving a steel lugged tractor on a fresh paved road and how the county soon posted no lugged wheels on the paved road sign.

This got me to thinking about a similar thing I did. It would have been in 1988 or 89. I know one of those years because I had the JD 6620 Titian II combine and I only had that machine two years. Anyway I was combining windrowed oats. When I got about home I found out the county had paved a section of the road as the concrete had gotten bad. I had no choice but to drive on it as the paved section blocked my drive form either direction. Well it was a hot July day in the late afternoon. I drove with one wheel in the ditch. Still the other tire's lugs compressed the asphalt into a rubble strip. So for the next 15 years you got that noise when every you went west from my house. LOL

Kind if miss that. It slowed cars down until they figured out what was going on. LOL
 
When I was a kid in the '50's the county began paving all the gravel roads around us. They posted signs "Road closed to sharp shod animals and vehicles with lugs on wheels." Eventually they took them down, but I always wished I had gotten one- would look great on our driveway.
 
I drove my 12-20 crossmotor from my truck shop to my house. That was about 10 years ago and I can still see the wheel marks in the pavement. Makes me smile.
 
coshoo go to the county shop I bet its still there counties tend not to throw anything out probably just give to you
 
Moved my dozer on the shoulder of a black top highway, got on the highway going around a creek culvet. I got a bill for 180 some dollars for a repair. The repair was for 1 truck two pickups, 5 men, some tar and sand. It was an itemized bill. The marks was about 1 foot by 5 foot didn't even tear up the blacktop just marks, good old Iowa Dot.
 
back in the 50s, i was trailing some 40+ draft horses. crossed the river bridge and brand new road and asphalt, not a track on it till i got there.it was a mess when i left and i didnt tarry.
 
Well.... the county where I live they take old signs to the scrap salvage yard. Buttt... the first thing they do is run them over with a bull dozer. Not worth grabbing cause they are pretty chewed up. Party poopers.
 
Concerning the rumble strips. My county puts those noisy things on every paved just before all stop signs. I call then cattle gaps. They are hard on shocks and my ears as there is a set in front of my house. But I've noticed there is not any in front of any county commissioners' house or any one else with any clout. Just us peons. TDF
 

A fellow that drove truck part time where I drive part time, pulled his tailgate in an intersection. He had 1.5 inch stone on so he lost a lot. One of the brothers got there pretty quick with a skid steer to pick it up but the state still charged $500.00 to sweep the dust.
 
There used to be a curvy line on the road about a mile or so from our farm. I was pulling a load of hay home from an auction (farmers left hay there on wagons,buyer just had to have empty wagon back a few days later) and the back right hub had the studs all shear off. Tire shot across the road, and I drug it maybe 100 feet before i stopped to see what happened. Couldn't get it moving again so a neighbor came out with their payloader and helped lift it to gimp into a parking lot.

They repaved the road a few years ago so it's gone now, but i would chuckle a little bit and shake my head any time i saw it.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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