Moving Machinery

[furrowtickler]

Agreed - we have to travel down a narrow shit hwy once in a while as well. All land within 4 miles. But only about 50% of the drivers have enough brains to pull over at the nearest approach , wait max 1-2 min and let us roll by - nope the fukin pie heads will keep comin and look all pissed off when they have to drive half in the ditch .
That comment on farmin half the country was yet anougher stupid comment . All farmers big or small here have to travel certain shitty narrow Hwy's at times . It's stupid drivers that can't think past the front of there vehicle

[cottonpicken]

Lots of fun in oil country with riggers driving eighty miles an hour on grids

[MBgrower]

You need pilot vehicles plain and simple. No education program will help.

[sumdumguy]

Serbu Sand and Gravel are the most courteous truck drivers. They slow right down with their loaded trucks so as not to stone you when you meet them on the Balgonie grid. It must inconvenience them for sure, but they must have orders from headquarters. They deserve a thank you wave.

My trusty Jeep can go down ditches to get around the farm rigs and maintainers. No prob.

[ColevilleH2S]

I farm in the middle of oil patch country and in the last 5 to 10 years it has been impressive how patient and courteous the local crews have become on the grids. Guaranteed if you meet an asshole going a buck twenty, they'll have out of province plates

[cottonpicken]

Your right i shouldn't have said that just a couple bad apples. The extra traffic is annoying

[LEP]

The farm is located on a secondary highway with hills in both directions. The house was there before the road was and is about 60 ft from the centre line of the road.

Anyway with sloughs, fencelines, creeks etc. the only way to all of my land is a minimum 1.5 miles of secondary highway and usually lots of highway 7 as well. We always have a pilot vehicle out front for seeding rigs, combines, swathers, etc. Lots of times people won't stop for them, so now we just straddle the highway if want them to stop.

Need to be lit up like a Pink Floyd light show and as visible as possible. Need to be courteous. I pull over long before someone gets to me on the secondary highway, but not on highway 7.

We are in oilpatch country and like coleville says most are pretty good. But when they were drilling hard the twenty somethings in the jackedup diesel trucks were the worst.

[Rareearth]

Difficult to educate the public when farmers do the same things.
For example, I'm going west - they are coming east @100 km hr. They pass two approaches the closest is 100 yards in front of me - they say they didn't see it so they put the truck 3/4 the way into the ditch and stop expecting me to move over and wiggle around them F..... I....... I did tell them latter that week the courteous and safest way, pull truck into the approach wait the 30!seconds to couple minutes, wave, proceed with caution. Oh ya the speed limit on grid roads is 80 km in Sask

[foragefarmer]

I have to agree, farmers are just as guilty. Many times on the main highway I have passed farmers hauling round bales on an old trailer, no flashers, driving half on the shoulder raising dust. Forget about a pilot vehicle and in some cases no straps.

Common sense comes in shortages in all walks of life. Farmers don't own a monopoly on it.

[hobbyfrmr]

I agree with forage. We have one neighbor every year hauls bales with a tractor drawn unit. This unit sems to really raise dust immediaty behind the transport hiding the load of bales. No SMV trianlge and no lights (not even a cheap set of magnetic ones) at the back. Naturally hauling at dusk, on flasher works on front and back of tractor and one headlight on front.
How it is no one has ever smashed into the back of that unit I will never know.
I have described exactly these details to the farmer at his everyday routine morning coffee session in town .