Posted by the tractor vet on April 30, 2009 at 06:57:17 from (75.19.124.161):
In Reply to: Re: 12 row is Big??. posted by Iowa corn and hogs on April 30, 2009 at 05:48:19:
Over on the east side of Ohio in the start of the hill country . We have narrow side roads with cuts thru hills bad curves narrow bridges . even moving a 13.5 foot disc can be a challenge on some of the roads . The one farm that i farmed i could not get my 370 I H 13.5 disc or 4 row corn planter baler haybine or combine thru the covered bridge . If the water level in the creek was down then you would have to go thru the cow gates and drive thru the creek , if the water level was up then it was a hazardious drive up to the narrow windy US 30 and a hazardous 6 mile drive to the other end of the road and come in the back way adding 17 miles just to get into the farm . Then there was one little bridge that ya had to hit it just wright with the planter and haybine or ya did not fit . There is one road that this guys combine with the straddle duals on rides up the banks coming thru the cut and this hill is a blind hill . There has already been one death of a young high school girl there when she hit a spray rig that was taking up both sides of the road The spray rig was west bound and she was east bound the spray rig was down in the dip and she did not see him till she poped over the hill and there was no place to go . Even moving the 1066 on the road with the duals on can be a nightmare on one stretch or the state highway because of the one section of blind bad curves . Even flat out a tractor running even at 25 MPH and some NUT CASE trying out the handling of his sports car around them curves gets hairy . You don't know how many times that i have come up thru that section with the head lites and flasher NEW SMV sign on the tractor AND THE PLOW with my left arm out indicating a left turn and be half way across the center line only to have some yaho come around me half way in the ditch blowing his horn and flippen ya off .. OR for that matter even having a pick up behind ya with his turn signal oneven blocking half the road these nut cases still come out around half in the ditch ticked off blowing there horns flippen ya off one even took out my buddys mail box trying to get around and this is on a blind curve with double yellow lines and a nother blind hill with a curve on it . And just on the other side of that hill is where i met two High school boy Drag racing with the one behind the first one passing and in my lane all i could do is jurk the wheel and head for the ditch and hope that i did not roll my truck trying to get away from them . Well i managed to keep my truck upright but the kid lots it and ended up shooting off the road in ft of my truck and i got him . HE ended up dieing and i get to live with that . You can do everything wright and still be wrong. . Yea it is bad around here for moving equipment on the roads and BIG equipment should be left for the BIG country .State Rt. 9 over here is one of the deadliest state highways around and we won't even talk about the great Bypass around this town. .
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