It’s the old story of “It’s only a tractor - Bloody farmers” Years ago in the days when I had verge mowing contracts with the County Council one of my men got so fed up with continually having to reverse for cars that when approached by a car that had just passed a passing place he would just stop and get his paper from behind the seat and wait for car to reverse. Nothing as immoveable as a Case 2090 with a big Econ mid- mounted flail!
And conversely this seems to have had the opposite effect around here because you see so many tractors on the road with all lights flashing just pulling a trailer or other normal size implement in daylight and this has desensitised the public to ignore flashing lights when they should be used to warn folk of a oversize vehicle or hazard ect . IMO
Jog on seriously just out to wind people up you are
Morons
Some of us do
That is annoying! Hate seeing people driving tractors either texting of on the phone! Happens far to much!!!!!!
Not out to wind anybody up, just saying what goes on in farming, bury your head in the sand and carry on mate.
Unfortunately our society tries to legislate and control any dangers, so we have whole generations of people who have never had to learn to assess risks and make their own decisions based on those risks. If we look at Covid, our government is doing that with bells on now. And we are not letting children go out and play (and experience small dangers) and learn what can happen, so when they come across larger dangers, they are not able to comprehend them, damn have you seen the signs in a supermarket wet floor, danger of slipping!A few of days ago while combining a field with a footpath alone one side I had a very near miss with a member of the public!
The footpath was clear as I’d started cutting along it andI was chopping the straw so a lot of dust blowing towards the path.
Well, a woman had walked at pace and got into my blind spot trying overtake the machine and getting totally covered in chaff in the process.
Anyway as I got to the corner and started to reverse the header came within inches of flattening her. Luckily I saw her at the very last minute, but she was totally obvious to the danger she was putting herself in for the sake of not holding back for what would have been less than a minute.
Then today as I was turning left off the main road with the combine I had a car almost run into the back of the combine as yet again they couldn’t wait for a few seconds!
Then I was then told of a couple incident locally over the past few days involving combines, one involving a motorcyclist that ended really badly.
Is more public education desperately needed about the dangers of large ag machines not only on the road but in the field also?
Everyone seems to be so impatient these days and will literally risk their life to get past a machine, even on foot or on a push bike it’s like a race, it’s just plain crazy!!
Thoughts?
when I did a driver training day at work, I remember my boss was driving, and keeping close to the left and parked cars in town, and the instructor told Paul move out and own the road