Neighbor Tractor Accident

[MossRoad]

Not a farm tractor, an implement of agriculture designed to be operated primarily in a farm field or on farm premises, or an electric personal assistive mobility device:


Aaron Z

Hmmm... sounds like just because we were told this all our driving lives, it may not actually be the law.
:tractor::steeringwheel::confused3:

 

[TomSeller]

I wish people driving trucks and cars on country roads would just heed the advice of my avatar

 

[Industrial Toys]

That is a great name for my E-Gator! The Electric Personal Assistive Mobility And Rural Operations Logistics Device.

 

[npalen]

I'm a bit surprised that rear view cameras are not mandatory where the driver can't see behind. We run one on the grain cart but have trouble with the cable to the tractor getting damaged and lose connection. It's great when it's working but really hairy making a left turn when you can't see behind the cart. I, like others, will gradually pull over to the center of the road so no one can pass during the run but even that is a bit scary.
Having said that, a previous operator on this 8420 Deere pulling the grain cart was hit by a passing semi when attempting a left turn. It took the left front clean off the FWA. Luckily no one hurt.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I thought of that. The cameras that is. How could you ever enforce that. As it is now, the ONLY requirement here during daytime is to have a SMV sign. Yet you see old bent,. faded signs hung on with a crooked piece of rusted wire! Like, a shiny new sign, properly mounted is just too much for some.

 

[rd_macgregor]

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Do doubt, some kind of rapid deceleration event!

I think they fold them like that for shipping...

 

[LouNY]

People wanting mandatory lights and cameras, are you volunteering to stand out in the field and connect them every time wagons are switched?
We still do things in an older fashion, a two row pull type chopper chopping into wagons. Two or three tractors an people hauling and unloading,
one person chopping, the road portion of the haul may be less than a quarter of a mile or up to 5 miles, when we get to the long haul (5 miles)
even taking it easy with the chopper I can stay ahead of the haulers, in corn that's a load every 15 minutes which means a wagon getting dropped
and another hooked up every 15 minutes. How long would all those lights and connectors last and then especially when opening up fields with brush rubbing
along the sides of the wagons or when I split a field stalks rubbing both sides of everything. The complete and total waste of time because people don't
see and realize what that SMV means or just don't care, we moved to the country and you will accommodate and change to suit us? Kiss my ***

 

[MHarryE]

Update from my sister who took the pictures I posted. Neighbor had pulled out of his driveway and was driving 100 yards down the road and turning right into his storage field. Truck, for some reason, swung right into the ditch and hit the tractor which was already on the drive into the field. Unknown whether trucker saw a vehicle coming from the other direction and swung into the ditch to avoid a head-on. Both drivers were in shock at the time. Neighbor only remembers going out to get 2 bales for his animals and being banged around in the cab. Sister knows tracks of truck going through ditch to point of collision on the drive into the field. Neighbor is physically okay but mentally in a turmoil. It appears he was in the right, the truck driver was driving too fast, but yet he is 91 years old and the DOT had already misinterpreted the accident when my sister arrived. They assumed he had turned left in front of the truck. My sister pointed out the driveway where he had entered the highway, the distance he had driven, and the right turn he had made never crossing the opposite driving lane.

 

[daugen]

Perhaps some of us would like to make sure you aren't making the papers next week Lou. We all need to learn from this and be as safe as we can.
If you are out on a rural road that gets very little traffic, I can really see your point. Otherwise better make sure all your equipment works and is hooked up when some
texter destroys your silage cart and rolls your tractor. Otherwise they'll make it into your fault. We've had two road mowers locally hit in the last year, one not far from my house.

If you don't pull over once in awhile, don't know how anyone can expect folks backed up behind from not doing stupid things.
People aren't patient, plain and simple.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I hear you. But the issue of SMVs and regular vehicles using the same public road ways is a REAL problem. And the Blame goes both ways. Government has acted on much less serious matters. Like the STUPID School Bus laws for instance!