Irresponsible Tractor driver (Picture)
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On my way to work today, I came across this:
What you don't see (due to the rain on my windscreen) is that at the top and bottom of the row of teeth are 2 x sharp metal spikes probably around 15 inches long which would have instantly decapitated the lorry driver.
No accompanying wide-load vehicle - Just this t
t in a tractor doing what the fk he likes because he thinks he can or just cant be bothered to do anything else (such as arrange a wide-load accompanying vehicle).
Luckily the lorry driver had been able to stop, pulling up half on to the grass verge on the road-side of the ditch - However if he had been just a few seconds further in to his journey, he would have met this tractor around a blind bend and he may not have gone home to his kids tonight. School buses (double-deckers) use this route too.
...A few years ago, my girlfriends brother had a serious accident on a road near here due to a good 3-4 inches of mud covering the road which was caused by tractors coming in and out of a field just after a corner - no warning signs or anything (possibly the same farmer!?!). The police said it was the worst case of mud on the road they had seen. They shut the road after ordering an industrial clean up. No charges were brought to the farmer but her brother lost his car due to it being absolutely and utterly totaled after sliding and hitting a tree. Luckily no lasting physical injuries.
You should always drive to the conditions and idiots like this tractor driver absolutely demonstrate as to why - Stay alert!
Gallen.
What you don't see (due to the rain on my windscreen) is that at the top and bottom of the row of teeth are 2 x sharp metal spikes probably around 15 inches long which would have instantly decapitated the lorry driver.
No accompanying wide-load vehicle - Just this t
t in a tractor doing what the fk he likes because he thinks he can or just cant be bothered to do anything else (such as arrange a wide-load accompanying vehicle).Luckily the lorry driver had been able to stop, pulling up half on to the grass verge on the road-side of the ditch - However if he had been just a few seconds further in to his journey, he would have met this tractor around a blind bend and he may not have gone home to his kids tonight. School buses (double-deckers) use this route too.
...A few years ago, my girlfriends brother had a serious accident on a road near here due to a good 3-4 inches of mud covering the road which was caused by tractors coming in and out of a field just after a corner - no warning signs or anything (possibly the same farmer!?!). The police said it was the worst case of mud on the road they had seen. They shut the road after ordering an industrial clean up. No charges were brought to the farmer but her brother lost his car due to it being absolutely and utterly totaled after sliding and hitting a tree. Luckily no lasting physical injuries.
You should always drive to the conditions and idiots like this tractor driver absolutely demonstrate as to why - Stay alert!
Gallen.
Edited by Gallen on Tuesday 31st July 18:09
farming family here too. its incredibly difficult taking any sort of farming equipment on the road, its not remotly made for the width and other road users and "we" rely heavly on other raod users being aware that "we" are massively struggling most of the time to get from A to B on the roads. "we" avoid using the roads if at-all possible, believe me it isnt fun! i fully understand other road users hating us but i for one, take absolutly no joy at-all in using our road network with farming equipment, its as much a pain for me as it is an inconvenience for other road users.
(not me in pic btw!)
(not me in pic btw!)
it's the front off a combine.
I'd expect the combine itself to be somewhere nearby, and likely to be wider.
It is harvesting time, wheat and also hay.
This means you need to be vigilant to the tools of agriculture to be using the roads.
So that's big metal objects and mud on the road.
If you don't like it, don't drive in the countryside.
I'd expect the combine itself to be somewhere nearby, and likely to be wider.
It is harvesting time, wheat and also hay.
This means you need to be vigilant to the tools of agriculture to be using the roads.
So that's big metal objects and mud on the road.
If you don't like it, don't drive in the countryside.
Engineer1 said:
I can't see a problem if that's on a country lane, on a main road it may be different but on a lane I expect farm vehicles some of which are well over half the width of the road, so the rule is drive to be able to stop in the road you can see is clear.
Couldn't agree more.
I do take the point (no pun intended) about the sharp spikes possibly not being that visible, but if you're going to drive in the country you have to expect tractors, combines and the like to be taking up the road space.
davethebunny said:
it's the front off a combine.
I'd expect the combine itself to be somewhere nearby, and likely to be wider.
It is harvesting time, wheat and also hay.
This means you need to be vigilant to the tools of agriculture to be using the roads.
So that's big metal objects and mud on the road.
Agree........ but also agree that everyone should abide by the rules which may mean signs (if you have made the road muddy and dangerous) and a level of common sense and responsibility if you happen to decide you need take a huge, wide gillotine for a ride.I'd expect the combine itself to be somewhere nearby, and likely to be wider.
It is harvesting time, wheat and also hay.
This means you need to be vigilant to the tools of agriculture to be using the roads.
So that's big metal objects and mud on the road.
davethebunny said:
If you don't like it, don't drive in the countryside.
Gallen said:
tt in a tractor doing what the fk he likes because he thinks he can
I guess it works both ways such as when driving a tractor on a "Fast" Road, the tractor should be able to get out of the way of the 18 wheel juggernaught in time?t in a tractor doing what the fk he likes because he thinks he can...of course not! But a little common sense and consideration doesn't go amiss.
(No, certainly not a city boy - and have friends who are farmers who take all precautions they possibly can)
Edited by Gallen on Tuesday 31st July 18:51
Agree, we need to be more tolerant of those doing a difficult job.
te.
Gallen said:
The police said it was the worst case of mud on the road they had seen.
The worst Mud on the road I saw was 1976. I was lonely that Christmas and thought I would go and see a band at the Wolvehampton Town Hall. Jeez those boys were appalling, no encore, not even 'Tiger Feet'. Utter ste.Edited by sday12 on Tuesday 31st July 19:16
Personally I think the driver has broken the law- endangering other road users. If a car driver loaded their car with rods/pipes/timber jutting out they would be picking up points in their licence! Not sure what would apply but something like driving with a dangerous load / endangering other road users / driving without due care and attention????
And it's rubbish what some have said about city folk on rural roads. I live on the fringe or rural/suburbia and the rural drivers are by far the worst because they drive so fast based on their 'local knowledge'.
And it's rubbish what some have said about city folk on rural roads. I live on the fringe or rural/suburbia and the rural drivers are by far the worst because they drive so fast based on their 'local knowledge'.
jbi said:
OP is a city boy?
Sounds like it. Also doesnt like farmers, but I presume he eats bread, milk, eggs etc.For what its worth, thats the header off a Combine fitted with a rape knife, which is used to cut vertically through the rape when harvesting.
Whatever happened to tolerance ?
Turn7 said:
Sounds like it. Also doesnt like farmers, but I presume he eats bread, milk, eggs etc.
For what its worth, thats the header off a Combine fitted with a rape knife, which is used to cut vertically through the rape when harvesting.
Whatever happened to tolerance ?
For what its worth, thats the header off a Combine fitted with a rape knife, which is used to cut vertically through the rape when harvesting.
Whatever happened to tolerance ?
But in all seriousness, I'm not a "city boy" and FWIW I actually quite like the vast majority of farmers that I know. However the potential danger within the picture that I posted is fairly obvious.
dasherdiablo1 said:
And it's rubbish what some have said about city folk on rural roads. I live on the fringe or rural/suburbia and the rural drivers are by far the worst because they drive so fast based on their 'local knowledge'.
Urban drivers are the worse with no idea how wide their vehicle is sitting in the middle of the road at a snails pace, refusing to move over, forcing everybody else into the verge, and glaring at local drivers who are trying to make progress, before running over a sheep.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff