It’s ‘that’ time of year. You have to be careful on the roads…
Note- The camera made it MUCH brighter than it actually was…
I was coming home Friday night right at sunset and the sun was definitely in my face. I kinda ‘thought’ something didn’t look right…
I was doing 60 and he was doing about 20, when I finally realized there WAS something actually in front of me, and I laid on the brakes!
It’s hard to believe that something that big could disappear in the sun, but it did. You can tell from the shadows how low the sun actually was.
Took me about 10 minutes to get the seat cushion out of my ass when I finally got home. Take care out there, folks!!!
Is that a John Deere?
I was working in Eastern Pennsylvania. Driving home after swing shift about 1:00 AM. No traffic. I was on a rural road cruising along about 60. Came around a blind curve and there is an Amish buggy (horse drawn conveyance) smack in the middle of the right lane. Amish buggies are painted flat black and are suppose to stay on the shoulder, not in the traffic lane. Fortunately this buggy had a slow moving vehicle triangle that caught my headlights. Put the binders on, but no way I could slow down enough. I swerved into the left lane in a move that would make a NASCAR driver envious (did I mention no traffic?) and passed the buggy about 30 to 40 miles an hour. I don’t know about the buggy driver, but I too had to take about 10 minutes to remove the seat cushion from my ass when I got home.
Murphy hates my guts, but my guardian angel was working overtime that night.
In Vermont, you really have to watch out in April. That is Manure Spreading Season! The spreaders travel down the local roads between fields, and drop…stuff…all over the road, and your car will tuck it into all the places it hides the road salt during the winter! A VERY pungent season!.
The key on the seat cushion issue is to break the suction. I find just releasing the bowels can do that. Avoiding the “political promises” clean up after is part and parcel of the AAR. We used to have Kool Koil seat covers when I was a kid. That kept the suction at bay. And allowed the 2-55 a/c to cool the cheeks and back. It also filled the waller’d out holes in the bench seat from the 800 lb previous owner.
Yeah, we have that with the harvesters here in October and early November.
THing is, they are well lit from the back with blinking lights and LED strobes.
From the front, not so much.
Add in the fact that they harvester heads are 20 feet or more wide and you can get into lots of trouble if they are coming towards you.
Had an enjoyable time one autumn at the local restaurant. A couple of ladies were in town from the tourist/vacation hotspot, and were b*tching about the farmers who had the NERVE to run their rigs on the road when their betters were trying to make it for a luncheon. Had to search for my eyeballs, they rolled so hard.
Deeres and hayrakes vs 8 point bucks crossing the road in town. At least the Deeres have lights. The buck (and his ladyfriend) damn near caused heart failure. 2 miles inside city limits… And not even in season. But not outside spotlight poaching season–still more Rural Life(tm).
Raton- It was
NRW- Ohhhh!
Ed- Ewe…no thank you!
STxAR- Oh, I’d forgotten about those things!
B- No blinky blinky or strobes on this one!
RC Snort…
Around here it’s tractors and combines, usually on tiny two-lane roads. The considerate ones send a pickup ahead moving slow, with flashers on. Most don’t.
No big deal, I grew up with it, and sometimes I was in the big machines when I was younger.
That is one dangerously criminal activity that tends to get a wink and a nod from the traffic gestapo. There are plenty of vehicle codes controlling the movement of agriculture equipment. For some reason they’d rather go after someone doing 5-10 over instead of someone blocking traffic and posing a very real risk of causing an accident.
Reading this reminds me I need to get my pitted windshield replaced. Driving into the sun, it becomes nearly opaque.
TB- Yep, that time of year…sigh
Dan- Some do use trucks with flashers out here…some…
WSF- Not a bad idea!
Sweet potato, pecans, and cotton (almost) are done. The big rush now is getting the fields ready for onions if it has not already been done. A farmer friend has his 80 acre field transplanted two weeks ago with Vidalia onions. He has 2 more fields to plant. It takes just over $4k per acre to grow onions. My buddy will have almost a million dollars tied up in his 3 onion fields before it is over.
I passed a 4 row ripper bedder on the back of a tractor and a 12 row turnplow on the back of one of the big tracked JD’s yesterday.