My New Wolo Light

[aczlan]

Yeah, I'll probably do that...I rarely take the tractor on the road...Mostly I use it right up near the road...

In the winter when we plow next to the road, we run the stock flashers and a beacon. That way if we are at a weird angle (in relation to the road) pushing back snowbanks someone cannot say that they didn't see us.

Aaron Z

 

[Don87]

In the winter when we plow next to the road, we run the stock flashers and a beacon. That way if we are at a weird angle (in relation to the road) pushing back snowbanks someone cannot say that they didn't see us.

Aaron Z

One of my neighbors wasn't seen a few months back.

2 am heading down the road on his old Ford tractor, 1 light aimed to the front, drunk as a skunk. An equally drunk lady, came over the blind knoll in front of my house and hit the bushog on the back of that tractor right square in the middle.

 

[aczlan]

One of my neighbors wasn't seen a few months back.
2 am heading down the road on his old Ford tractor, 1 light aimed to the front, drunk as a skunk. An equally drunk lady, came over the blind knoll in front of my house and hit the bushog on the back of that tractor right square in the middle.

Hopefully all were able to recover with noting more than good stories to tell.
I shouldn't run into those issues because:
1. I don't drink alcohol
2. Our tractors have lights that show in both directions and (when on the road) a strobe on top that can be seen all directions
3. We don't run on the road after dusk
4. Whenever it is possible (~50% of the time), we have a chase car behind us

Aaron Z

 

[Don87]

Hopefully all were able to recover with noting more than good stories to tell.
I shouldn't run into those issues because:
1. I don't drink alcohol
2. Our tractors have lights that show in both directions and (when on the road) a strobe on top that can be seen all directions
3. We don't run on the road after dusk
4. Whenever it is possible (~50% of the time), we have a chase car behind us

Aaron Z

The guy is still driving his tractor up and down the road, but, I haven't seen his bushog since the day of the accident. I'm guessing the lady that hit him is ok(although i don't know about the car), because she was cussing him up one side and down the other after the accident(that's what woke us up).

 

[5030]

Hopefully all were able to recover with noting more than good stories to tell.
I shouldn't run into those issues because:
1. I don't drink alcohol
2. Our tractors have lights that show in both directions and (when on the road) a strobe on top that can be seen all directions
3. We don't run on the road after dusk
4. Whenever it is possible (~50% of the time), we have a chase car behind us

Aaron Z

I do number one.
(I'm a tea totaller.....)

I do number two...
Amber facing back flashers, red running, amber forward, 4 cab lights forward, 2 grille lights, 2 cab lights rearward and one to the right side (for mowing afer dark) plus SMV placards on tractor and every implement and every implement has running lights as well.... and my trusty Wolo strobe light atop the cab roof.


Number three, all the time.
Time is important and if it means 10pm on the way home, so be it.

Number four, almost never unless it's a loaded hayrack.

If I get rearended by a car, I have the right of way as an agricultrial vehicle on a secondary road (at least here in Michigan) I run the required warning devices. If I do get hit (never have, heaven help the car driver. Most implements I pull are large and heavy. An 18 gage steel coffin will be no match....

 

[aczlan]

Number three, all the time.
Time is important and if it means 10pm on the way home, so be it.

The only time when time is important when we are baling, and then there is only one field that we bale that requires roading equipment.
I completely understand running till the job is done. Just make sure there are lights on the back. I almost rear ended someone pulling a planter after dark with no lights, no SMV sign and nothing reflective on the back of the planter or tractor.

If I get rearended by a car, I have the right of way as an agricultrial vehicle on a secondary road (at least here in Michigan) I run the required warning devices. If I do get hit (never have, heaven help the car driver. Most implements I pull are large and heavy. An 18 gage steel coffin will be no match....

Ayep.

Aaron Z

 

[5030]

Interestingly, we rent our ground for rowcropping and all the forage is on contract ground and none close by.

I've actually considered a Fastrac but none of my implements are rated for over 2omph.

Not that I never pulled an empty hayrack fast. I pulled one at 60 mph one time (behind my pickup).....:laughing:

I do more pavement miles than field miles. I've got one hay contract that's a 15 mile round trip. 20 mph is fine for being nosey but it does get boring after a time. There is only so many CD's to listen to and kidney's to live with.....rough roads up here.

 

[aczlan]

Interestingly, we rent our ground for rowcropping and all the forage is on contract ground and none close by.
I've actually considered a Fastrac but none of my implements are rated for over 2omph.
Not that I never pulled an empty hayrack fast. I pulled one at 60 mph one time (behind my pickup).....:laughing:
I do more pavement miles than field miles. I've got one hay contract that's a 15 mile round trip. 20 mph is fine for being nosey but it does get boring after a time. There is only so many CD's to listen to and kidney's to live with.....rough roads up here.

We only do ~1500 bales/year from the 20 acre farm (may be going up with the new place we just got next door), so we dont move much on the road, other than bushhogging for the local machine shop (we bushhog for him and he takes care of our broken metal stuff.
The one field we road to has grass hay but I don't like cutting it unless we have a buyer lined up as our main fields cover us for hay and we have been somewhat limited on storage space.

Aaron Z