If I had to hazard a guess, I would guess the "new employee" was not a local country/farm boy, but a city kid who didn't know the difference between pounds, tons, liters and meters. If any of you have ever been on a harvest crew, you know what I mean. Most farm boys know that roading a combine wide open, especially on a country road is not a good idea...that they can...and do...end up with its wheels in the air in the ditch. Most farm boys I knew at least, would think twice about taking a tractor that big across a rickety old bridge...and we had a lot of them in the day.