Please be cautious on the the rural roads ,
there are a lot of semi's out there as well.


then there are the spreaders ,too

Yes it is. Some of the farmers are posting good videos on youtube.
I like watching -
Dodge Brothers Farm and Ranch
Mike Mitchell
Brian's Farming Videos
Werner Farms
Border View Farms

Farmers have been getting in the last of the tobacco for the last 2 weeks, lots of tractors and carts/wagons. They are also disking the fields after the tobacco is picked getting ready for a winter crop.

In my area the grow tobacco, corn and soy bean and a winter wheat.

Being raised in SE Idaho, ya you should watch out for farm equipment, it will mess you up!

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Originally posted by SSgt USMC/Vet:
Farmers have been getting in the last of the tobacco for the last 2 weeks, lots of tractors and carts/wagons. They are also disking the fields after the tobacco is picked getting ready for a winter crop.

In my area the grow tobacco, corn and soy bean and a winter wheat.

It will be a late tobacco crop. My neighbor was 3 weeks late finishing planting this spring. Now after a strange summer, ALL of the crop is ripening at once. He will not have enough barns to cure all the tobacco, and with a cold snap coming this week, will damage the field tobacco.

A lot of equipment being moved around here also. Keep an eye out for deer. They are on the move due to the crops being combined. Had one hit the daughters car the other morning. Just a dent in both doors.

Same here. Most of the wheat and barley is gone and they are swathing canola. A dill field went down last week and potatoes soon.

The farm equipment today is enormous.When I lived on our farm in the 40s and 50s most harvesting combines were a 6 ft. Cut, now their up to almost 30 and come in two sections hauled to the fields, so you have to be careful on the roads around the equipment being taken to a field.

Venture out at your own risk!

Last year I had to widen my farm road crossings because of going to 36 foot headers.

While at a rest stop on I-80, westbound,
We saw a wheat head on the back of a semi trailer,
We asked the truck driver how wide the head was,
He told us 48 feet

There's nothing like coming around the bend on a county road and come face-to-face with a 8 or 12 row corn picker...

around here the commuters like to pass four cars AND the tractor or combine,

at least three times in the last six years I've seen the farmer make a left turn in too the field
gate hole.

the passer then having to slam on the brakes , BIG time.

one time that happened on a double line ( no passing zone)

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With Hurricane Sally and all the rain we have had on the Gulf Coast the peanut farmers have been unable to get into the fields. When the sun comes out and it dries up next week it's going to get really busy out there digging peanuts and then the cotton harvest right behind, as well as the final hay cutting. Lots of equipment on the roads from now to Thanksgiving, ya'll be careful out there.

On YouTube there is a 16 row corn head. On our little farm in the 40s and 50s that would only have to go three or four times up and down in the field and once across both ends and done by lunch.

The Indiana grown cantaloupe were huge this year. At the Market, the produce Vendor had them which were as large as regular melons. I wonder what kind of machine harvests all those Honey Nut Cheerios..

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Ok, it's day 8 of listening to the 800 bushel grain dryer r o a r,
Day and night, night and day.

It's going to get real old in the next six or eight days.

My little gravel road doesn't usually get the equipment traffic, but it got hammered today. The drivers must have been making a loop, because the semi's that came by all came downhill, and all came loaded.

At the end of the day came a caravan of a few tractor/field wagon combos followed by a combine, which of course I got caught behind and followed most of the 10 miles to an appointment. The combine filled the gravel road edge to edge, and filled the highway from the yellow line well off onto the shoulder.

Hitting that would have been unpleasant.