Inconsiderate drivers and tractor operators, bad mix...

[Hay Dude]

Never seen a tractor with self cancelling turn signals. It might exist but I've never seen one. When I put on my signal to signal my intent, my running lights automatically switch from 4 way flashers to a solid amber light on the opposite side of the turn and on the turn side, flash and yes, I have to manually turn them off (return the turn signal lever to the neutral position).

Mine self-cancel. Love that feature. Even better, as you mentioned, Kubota has a feature so that if youre roading with 4 ways and want to make a turn, the turn signal overrides the 4 ways auto cancels and puts you right back into 4 ways when the turn is completed.
Very safe and very forward thinking.

 

[zzvyb6]

Now add alcohol.
Fowlerville man hospitalized after crash involving tractor, pickup

 

[Industrial Toys]

I let someone (from the city) drive my Gator on the weekend and I noticed something, virtually every time I have let someone drive something. They just mash down that accelerator, from the first second! Like slow is just no good! Don't know the machine, don't know the terrain, but they have to go fast! No wonder accidents happen.

 

[Jstpssng]

Speaking of construction. It is amazing how permits, escorts and such are often required for loads that don't even pose a threat to the motoring public, and then the huge agricultural equipment has no restrictions for the most part. BIGGEST problem, I beleive, is that you are never sure what they are going to do. Is he going to turn any minute or drive another ten miles down the road? In my mind, THAT should be somehow addressed.

Funny comment, coming from your side of the border. I was driving through the village of Bingham Maine, as everybody was cleaning up after a 2 day snowstorm. Cars lining both sides of the road, leaving a narrow lane to drive in. I came around a curve and somebody in a little S--- box aimed right for me in my lane; instinctively I steered around a parked car and into the snowbank. He was the chase car for a wide load mobile home coming out of Quebec... apparently too important to follow our laws prohibiting wide loads until the snow got cleaned up. I'm not sure what would have happened if I'd cleaned that little car's clock and pushed him into the snowbank...

 

[paulfun9]

I'm the op and that is exactly what happened. The clown was coming down the dirt road at warp factor one. When I swung into the road, he was (in my estimate) fat enough away from me to be able to control his vehicle). Pretty hard to estimate speed at a distance. By the time I got out in the road, he was on me and sliding all 4 wheels. He slid by me on the loose dirt, flipped me off and hammered down again.

Speed limit on any unmarked road in Michigan is 55 which, IMO is way too fast and this guy must have been doing 80.

The vehicle was in my view as I pulled out but was a long ways off, far enough that I felt I had the room to get out in the road without incident. There was no incident but it was close and I didn't have anything on the back, just the tractor.

Tractor in my avitar is the tractor I was driving.

So you felt the need to pull a slow moving vehicle onto a road with a car or truck coming, and wonder why he came on you so quick?

Sorry but unless traffic was heavy on that road which by your description it wasn稚, You should have waited for him to get by before pulling out!

 

[CobyRupert]

Speaking of construction. It is amazing how permits, escorts and such are often required for loads that don't even pose a threat to the motoring public, and then the huge agricultural equipment has no restrictions for the most part.....

Don’t! Don’t!, Don’t follow ag equipment with a vehicle. If the ag equipment has lights or reflectors, don’t quadruple the passing distance (i.e. hang other vehicles out in the oncoming traffic lane, making a MORE dangerous situation) when there’s NO need to.
There no advantage to having a trailing escort vehicle.
Now if it’s a wide load, a lead vehicle might not be a bad idea.

 

[Industrial Toys]

From what I observed, there are NO TRAFFIC LAWS in Quebec!

I don't generally drive so close to flatbeds/lowboys that I will rip my mirrors off if they happen to have a tracked machine sticking out a bit against standard operating rules. BUT, if they "PAY" for a permit they can do, like that changes safety in any way, shape or form.

 

[Hay Dude]

Speaking of construction. It is amazing how permits, escorts and such are often required for loads that don't even pose a threat to the motoring public, and then the huge agricultural equipment has no restrictions for the most part. BIGGEST problem, I beleive, is that you are never sure what they are going to do. Is he going to turn any minute or drive another ten miles down the road? In my mind, THAT should be somehow addressed.

Lets hear your proposal for large AG equipment, which Im sure you realize is used to, produce food?
I have enough BS to deal with. You suggesting I need to get an over width permit to drive a few miles between fields?
Is it build real small AG machinery and go back to the stone ages?
Maybe we oughta go back to baling hay with mule teams and put it away loose in the barn?
Everyone wants cheap food, but complains about anything farmers do.

I need more stinkin permits like I need more government regulations.

 

[Industrial Toys]

No, I am pretty much a libertarian. BUT, you can't have Ag stuff just getting bigger and bigger and everyone is just ok with that. Construction companies build the roads, houses and schools so farmers feeding the people is a rather dumb point.

Besides, the largest machines are often CASH CROPPERS. Really hardly farmers in the traditional sense. All JUST about money and profit.

 

[4570Man]

Lets hear your proposal for large AG equipment, which Im sure you realize is used to, produce food?
I have enough BS to deal with. You suggesting I need to get an over width permit to drive a few miles between fields?
Is it build real small AG machinery and go back to the stone ages?
Maybe we oughta go back to baling hay with mule teams and put it away loose in the barn?
Everyone wants cheap food, but complains about anything farmers do.

I need more stinkin permits like I need more government regulations.

Construction guys have a pretty important job to but they don’t have any of the freedom a farmer has. Try driving a 988 loader down the road ad see how it goes.