Moving Equipment??? Some People...

Tim in West Pa · May 16, 2010

To the guy in the blue chevy caprice classic w/ the kid in the car seat who passed me on rt 58 this morning at Mach 1 with your hair on fire: Dont you think that you could have waited another minute before passing on that curve? I was going 30 mph, but I was towing a 6 row corn planter. I had a SMV sign, four ways on the in the truck and flashing lights on the planter. Where were you going at 7:30 am that needed you to risk my life and yours, you dumb @$$?
To the lady in the white buick, thanks for being patient.
To the guy in the grey chevy truck, thanks for pulling over in that gas well site drive way. There wasnt much berm on my side of the road, right there. It was tight in that spot.

Paul from MI · May 16, 2010

Surprising, but not really. Those of us that move farm equipment or live in an area where others do are pretty generally aware of the danger. Makes me wonder where in the world some of these folks come from!

olgentdc · May 16, 2010

don't even get me started ,,. lot of em belong in apartments and should just have a bicycle

Tim in West Pa · May 16, 2010

We usually call those folks "Pavement Dwellers".

ben brown · May 16, 2010

well i bet he was wonder what you were doing blocking the road and movimg you over wide equipment at that time of day when you know that is when most people are on there way to work. i repair farm equipmet so spent, lot of time onthe road going from farm to farm, what get me is a farmer well decide to move his equipmet right when eveyone is going to work, i know thy all should live in town but my guess is most of the people going to work are the wifes kid parent of the guys moving his equipment, if i hauling a tractor back i never leave the shop before 8 most all traffic headed to town is off the road by then makes it easyer and safer for them and me. thats my 2 cents worth well maybe 1/4 cent

Goose · May 16, 2010

Once when we still lived in town, I stopped at a stop sign a block from our house in a 25 mph zone. A car went flying past doing at least 50 or 60.

I pulled out behind him, cussing a blue streak,--and saw him pull into the "Emergency" entrance at the local hospital.

I had a law professor in college who spent a whole semester hammering home the concept that there are always two or more ways of looking at any situation. And I'm as guilty as the rest of losing sight of that fact.

Tim in West Pa · May 16, 2010

To further explain. We try to move wide stuff on early sunday morning before church. Usually less traffic at that time of the morning.
It was a 6 row planter, however, it did NOT hang out in the other lane.
What I thought was the bad was the high speed pass on a blind curve.
Guess I should wait till after 8:01 am and oh the hospital is the other direction about 14 miles.
Maybe I was wrong.

504 · May 17, 2010

It really didn t mater that you had a wide load, Friday afternoon I was heading into the shop with the cruse set on 61 MPH, speed limit is 55 MPH I was passed by a guy that almost took the fender off of the Freightliner, 3 miles later I am still on cruse and I passed him back.

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