Re: Inconsiderate? Farmers

Posted by trw on October 03, 2006 at 06:57:49 from (69.77.249.48):

In Reply to: Inconsiderate? Farmers posted by IA Roy on October 02, 2006 at 20:19:21:

I am one of those "inconsiderate farmers". I hate moving machinery as much as you hate having me on the road. It is just the way things are in the summer. You stated that you followed this combine for at least a half-mile up and down several hills. If there were several hills in a half mile, I don't think I would have let you pass either. It will take you a while to get around me and if there were "several" hills, you would have had to pass going up a hill. It would be safer for you to be behind me than beside me. You want us to take the 15 minutes to take our header off our combine and another 15 minutes to put it back on, in a time of year that can cost us several hundred dollars an hour, and all you were probably in a hurry to get to home to was to eat supper. This guy was probably in the field well before you got up and was going to another field and was going to be at that field well after you are tucked away nicely in bed. I pull over as quickly as it is safe to let someone pass. I know some don't. Don't say we are all the same. We hate to have you behind us as much or more as you hate to be there. Have some PATIENCE!! I was moving my combine down a well traveled highway several years ago. NO header, a wide road with large shoulders, over to the right as far as possible, giving the traffic behind me plenty of room to pass, when someone passed me and gave me the #1 sign with his middle finger. To this day, I don't know what I did wrong. I wish I could have been faster to run him down and find out. His license plate was to muddy to get a number. Once again, we hate to be moving on the roads, and you hate to see us moving, but have a little patience and the harvest will soon be over and you can go back to 80 MPH on the roads!!! I'm sorry, I just had to vent my feelings!

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