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showcrop · Aug 8, 2009

For most of my hay work I use two late model tractors but I also use one of my old Fords. my fields are scattered within a five mile range. For the most part I stay off the main roads but have to use them sometimes. Five times this year I have been approaching a left turn, slowing, signaling with outstretched hand and getting right on the line in order to make my intentions clear, only to have my hand nearly removed by someone abruptly passing. Apparently they can't see my signal, so I've been thinking of white gloves like police. or maybe day glo yellow or flourescent red. What color do you use?

Anonymous-0 · Aug 8, 2009

I have NEVER worn work gloves unless working with glass or sharp steel.

Glenn F.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 8, 2009

what if you rig up some turn signals?? Tractors share the road here and have to have them. Still don't stop automobile drivers from making idiots of themselves. I drive as close to the center line as possible just to keep cars from passing. Been crowded/cutoff too many times from them trying to pass and realizing oncoming traffic is too close.

Dave

seantn · Aug 8, 2009

Paint a lenght of pvc pipe day glo orange. Hang it on your fender until you need it to signal a turn

John S-B · Aug 8, 2009

I got a pair of work gloves at Rural King in Ill. that had lime green material on the back along with a reflective stripe. Try a farm or safety supply store.

ScottyHOMeY · Aug 8, 2009

I had the opportunity to talk to such an idiot.

Hand signals don't seem to mean what they used to. I signaled a left from a tractor not long ago. Person in question took that as a "c'mon around." I suppose he gets credit for stopping to apologize, but he remains in the idiot class, as he sat in the oncoming lane alonside me as he stopped to offer an apology so eloquent and verbose as to make me envious.

Quite against my nature, as I had lots to of thoughts ready to share with him, I kept my side of the conversation short.

LenND · Aug 8, 2009

How about you get a magnetic light to set on fender. Hook a flasher in the wire and clamp it to the battery. You can then switch it from one tractor to another. Turn it on before you are ready to turn.

Don-Wi · Aug 8, 2009

It doesn't matter what color your gloves are. You could have a neon sign on your backside and they still wouldn't pay attention. Couple weeks ago I had to take our loader around the road to get on the other side of our driveway (had it blocked with the haybine and needed to use the loader to drop the crimper) and I had oncoming traffic. I stopped and had my arm out. I could hear a loud bike coming up behind me without letting off the throttle. As soon as the car passed I started to turn expecting the bike to pass on the shoulder, but instead he passes on the left and almost catches the bucket as it swung out into the other lane. He never braked, never looked back, just kept on going.

Makes a guy shake his head sometimes.

Donovan from Wisconsin

GA Dave · Aug 8, 2009

If there is a vehicle behind me when I need to turn left I'll slow and take the next right and wait for traffic to clear and then double back to my turnoff. David...................

onefarmer · Aug 8, 2009

The only thing to get a cars attention when farm equipment is concerned is a rock in the windshield. But then that leads to other problems......

IH2444 · Aug 8, 2009

I am not sure how many driver know what hand signals are any more.

old · Aug 8, 2009

Depending on your state law may or may not be in your favor. If they are and you start your turn and get hit it is there fault but ya you also maybe dead. Taught my son to do the kick and fly thing on his motor cycle. Or in other words if he is in the right and some one does something stupid kick the ##$%^%!@# our of the car andf then fly as in get gone before they can see what happened. To bad a tractor can not go that fast

MarkB_MI · Aug 9, 2009

Old, I don't know how folks behave where you live, but if your son were to follow your advice here in Michigan it might just get him killed.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2009

Why don't you fit electrical indicators,may save you a few hassles,a lot of people were not born when hand signals were the accepted form so they may think what the hell are you about besides they maybe colour blind.

armand tatro · Aug 9, 2009

Why would drivers know what hand and arm signals mean when they don't even know how to turn on their own turn signals!!!! Must be a lot of cars with defective turn signals out their! Armand

Spook · Aug 9, 2009

I kinda thought they had become optional equipment, from what I see.

John B. · Aug 9, 2009

I must admit that today's drivers are unfamiliar with hand signals and many hate to be behind any type of farm machinery.

When I worked at the local ferterlizer company we heard many similar stories.

We finally told them to put turn signals on their equipment. They didn't know it could be done. So they would bring their equipment into us and we wired up lights with a trailer plug that would fit their pickup truck and then wired up their tractors. Putting lights on equipment only takes 15 minutes.

By putting these lights on their equipment made these farmers capable of communicating to other drivers on the road in a way that these other drivers were use to or taught.

It is especially necessary on gravity wagons and hay wagons when loaded where the two drivers can't make eye contact.

You have to make your intentions visible with lights where those behind us can see what our intentions are, such as an upcoming left or right turn.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 9, 2009

Neighbor boy got his temporary driving permit. I asked if he'd learned his hand signals. He said he didn't need to cause his turn signals and brake lights all work fine. So I asked him if the person in front of him signal and brake lights don't work. His answer not his problem. I try to not be on the road when I know he is driving.

onefarmer · Aug 9, 2009

The signal they DO know, only involves one finger.

old · Aug 9, 2009

Sounds like your not a biker and don't have a clue what bikers have to put up with on the road. I will have been a biker for 40 years come next year and have come very close to being dead because of the S.O.B people in cars and them having no respect for us bikers

MarkB_MI · Aug 10, 2009

Old, as a matter of fact I do ride and I'm well aware of the stupidity that drivers are capable of. I also know that being in the right is irrelevant if you're also dead.

But that's not my point. You may get away with kicking cars where you live, but I wouldn't recommend trying it on one of the homeboys here in Detroit.

bruster · Aug 10, 2009

Around here, in the Youngstown, Ohio area, sticking your hand out the window is a signal that you want to stop in the middle of the road. Then you can talk, make a drug deal, or do both!

I still have a turn signal set that I made up two 8" school bus turn indicators on mag mounts. Just throw them on whatever tractor's going on the road and haven't had a problem yet (knock on wood)

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