silage season

sean1141

With the good weather over the weekend a lot of farmers are getting the silage cut. This mean a lot of big machinery on rural roads. Please allow extra time for your trips over the weekend if you are travilling on country roads and keep an eye out for signs of silage cutting and be extra carefull going into corners and on narrow roads. If you see a tractor coming in your direction please pull into a gateway if possible.

safe driving

shedweller

Good call. Watch for extra crap on the road coming into bends as there may be something massive and slow pulling out onto the road just around the corner.

slimjimmc

Don't assume tractors always move slowly, many will be tearing back to the field with an empty trailer as fast as they can, so you may have even less time than you might think if you meet one.

And don't assume that just because it's late and getting dark that a) there'd be no tractors on the road and b) that any that are will be well lit up from behind. Silage cutting doesn't stop just because the sun moved.

peasant

...and for the townies ...

Something like a gas canister / barrel / red rag / traffic cone standing by the side of road usualy marks the (busy) entrance int the field where the cutting is taking place

Cookie_Monster

slimjimmc wrote: »

b) that any that are will be well lit up from behind.

Surely that's a legal requirement to be correctly lit?

sean1141

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Surely that's a legal requirement to be correctly lit?

yup it is. same as cars but we all know how many people never bother there arse checking bulbs! also lights on trailers can get covered in mud and be very dim. you might not see them untill you are on top of them.. do in fairness most big contractors are very well lit up

Esel

peasant wrote: »

...and for the townies ...

Something like a gas canister / barrel / red rag / traffic conehead standing by the side of road usualy marks the (busy) entrance int the field where the cutting is taking place

sean1141 wrote: »

yup it is. same as cars but we all know how many people be very dim.

2 FYPs for the price of 1!

cena

I nearly hit a tractor tonight Coming arOund a bend couldn't see cause the sun was going down and was too see.

yerraya

And please please please be careful when over taking most machinery isnt travelling far so try and sit tight...I came across a crash a few years back the over taker tried to pass a car and silage harvester on a narrow road and they misjudged how wide the harvester and went right into the back of it..Very nasty collision dont know how anyone wasnt seriously injured or killed so please be careful!