Posted by redforlife on May 19, 2022 at 08:00:55 from (174.210.172.235):
In Reply to: Tractor accident posted by flembo on May 19, 2022 at 05:07:51:
Local guy (94) was still hauling grain to town to the elevator last fall harvest. I was hauling grain (for somebody else) to the same elevator. I witnessed some of his driving, and it was quite SCARY!
Seen him round a corner in a single axle tractor/trailer, and the wheels on the tractor went off the edge of pavement on the right hand side. Plenty of room, State highway going both ways, no other traffic in his way. Seen him turn sharp at the elevator with the same rig on several occasions. Turn so sharp the rear axles on the trailer were turning on a dime. He was gonna try to turn the same rig around inside a bunker the elevator was filling. Employee stopped him. Made him back out of there. That took several attempts. All he had to do, was back straight up. Nothing behind him. Not even the other trucks waiting to dump. Seen him put the right side outer dual on a straight truck, up on the side rail (heavy pipe) on the side of the scale. Drove off the end of the scale like that. Taking out a reflective fiberglass stick the elevator put in the ground marking the 4 corners of the scale. And, to top all of that off, he drove an empty truck in to dump one time. He made it all the way to the probe, and was told to go back home. His boy running the combine seen him take off with the empty truck, called the elevator and told them not to weigh him when he got there, just send him back home.
And this guy has the (well, I'd call it stupidity) to brag about still hauling grain at 94 when sitting around the coffee table at the coffee shop in town.
They did a wright up in the county paper the year before, about him still hauling at 93. I don't think anyone involved in doing that article, had any idea about his driving capabilities.
Accidents can happen to anyone. And sometimes the elderly don't know when to hang it up. Not sure which one is the case in your story with the backhoe guy. Perhaps both, I don't know. I don't know the guy either.
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