Driving habits of rural folk

[Hay Dude]

Had me a little incident today. Was driving my M135X with loader/bale spear briskly down one of our backroads at 25MPH (speed limit 35). My 4 ways were on and my rotary beacon was on. Look in side view mirror and here comes this jack wagon in his stripped 4x2 chevy 1500 pickup and gets 2' from my ag tires on the back. Looked like some union plasterer type duface. He tailgated me for about 1/2 mile screaming curse words at me while his cigarette bobbed up and down in his big mouth.
Just a few hundred feet short of the farm destination, I put my left turn signal on to make a left into the upcoming driveway.
Now the guy is ready to have a brain seizure because, God forbid, I dropped from 16th gear to 15th gear and down to 20MPH for about the last 100 feet.
Heres where it gets good: Rather than allow me to make my left, he attempts to PASS me on the left. He slammed on his brakes once he saw a 3' hardened steel bale spear about to push into his tin can passenger door. :laughing: I made my turn into the driveway and he rolled down his window in obviously embarrassed and began screaming F*+@*&$ nonsense at me. I signaled him to follow me into the driveway so I could put one of my size 11 steep tip boots up his fat keester. I wonder if he knew he was on one of the property cameras the whole time????
I wish city people like this big mouth tool bag would just leave us country rubes and rubettes alone.:laughing:

 

[Sigarms]

Looked like some union plasterer type duface. He tailgated me for about 1/2 mile screaming curse words at me while his cigarette bobbed up and down in his big mouth.

I've got to ask, how does a union plasterer type duface look any different from a non union plasterer type duface?

 

[Hay Dude]

I've got to ask, how does a union plasterer type duface look any different from a non union plasterer type duface?

I dunno, he just had that union plasterer duface look about him. :laughing:

 

[Ford850]

I dunno, he just had that union plasterer duface look about him. :laughing:

If he was union, wouldn't that be spelled Dueface?

 

[Hay Dude]

If he was union, wouldn't that be spelled Dueface?

BaHahahahaha :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

If he was union, wouldn't that be spelled Dueface?

 

[JethroB]

An all time classic movie, very PI these days. But it poked fun at everyone. Mel Brooks at his best.

 

[5030]

Had me a little incident today. Was driving my M135X with loader/bale spear briskly down one of our backroads at 25MPH (speed limit 35). My 4 ways were on and my rotary beacon was on. Look in side view mirror and here comes this jack wagon in his stripped 4x2 chevy 1500 pickup and gets 2' from my ag tires on the back. Looked like some union plasterer type duface. He tailgated me for about 1/2 mile screaming curse words at me while his cigarette bobbed up and down in his big mouth.
Just a few hundred feet short of the farm destination, I put my left turn signal on to make a left into the upcoming driveway.
Now the guy is ready to have a brain seizure because, God forbid, I dropped from 16th gear to 15th gear and down to 20MPH for about the last 100 feet.
Heres where it gets good: Rather than allow me to make my left, he attempts to PASS me on the left. He slammed on his brakes once he saw a 3' hardened steel bale spear about to push into his tin can passenger door. :laughing: I made my turn into the driveway and he rolled down his window in obviously embarrassed and began screaming F*+@*&$ nonsense at me. I signaled him to follow me into the driveway so I could put one of my size 11 steep tip boots up his fat keester. I wonder if he knew he was on one of the property cameras the whole time????
I wish city people like this big mouth tool bag would just leave us country rubes and rubettes alone.:laughing:

No incidents for me this year in the tractor. Must be the Covid thing keeping jackwagons off the asphalt.

Had a good one last year with the round baler on a 2 lane. Was tooling along with my flashers on and signaled for a left into an intersecting road (was on my way back to the farm) and I glance in my left mirror and there is a tri-axle rolloff about to pass me on the left. I got it back in the lane straightened out and about crapped my pants. Way too close for comfort and I don't want to tangle with a big truck anyway.

He was well on the berm too. So, not just 4 wheelers are idiots, truck drivers as well. Must have been in a hurry to get back to the yard. Another Dueface no doubt.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I have had people honk at me to get going at a light and I calmly got out went back and said "what's up" as if thinking they wanted my attention.

 

[Sigarms]

Practice does not make one better, but good practice makes one better (apologies to the football coach). One reason to wear a helmet when you're riding on a motorized vehicle other than a car no matter what you're doing...

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[fried1765]

I have had people honk at me to get going at a light and I calmly got out went back and said "what's up" as if thinking they wanted my attention.

Thanks!
I will file that one away for future reference/use.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Thought maybe I had a flat or taillight out. lol

 

[ovrszd]

Did you ever notice it's always someone else that does something stupid?

 

[bcp]

Did you ever notice it's always someone else that does something stupid?

Being interested in tractors indicates we are smarter, better behaved, and handsomer.

Bruce

 

[MossRoad]

Practice does not make one better, but good practice makes one better (apologies to the football coach). One reason to wear a helmet when you're riding on a motorized vehicle other than a car no matter what you're doing...

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GEEZE things go south FAST in that one! Hope he's OK.

 

[lman]

I have had people honk at me to get going at a light and I calmly got out went back and said "what's up" as if thinking they wanted my attention.

I thought you were using your cell phone again.

 

[ovrszd]

Being interested in tractors indicates we are smarter, better behaved, and handsomer.

Bruce

Absolutely.

 

[ovrszd]

I thought you were using your cell phone again.

Again.

 

[CobyRupert]

Had a good one last year.....Was tooling along with my flashers on and signaled for a left into an intersecting road (was on my way back to the farm) and I glance in my left mirror and there is a tri-axle rolloff about to pass me on the left....

He was well on the berm too. So, not just 4 wheelers are idiots, truck drivers as well. Must have been in a hurry to get back to the yard. Another Dueface no doubt.

I think tractor turn signals have a dangerous design.
Typically, and others can verify, other drivers following see two flashing hazard lights, then when you put the LEFT “turn signal” on, the only change is that the RIGHT light STOPS flashing.
This is foreign to most drivers who are used to a light that STARTS flashing to indicate the vehicle is about to turn that direction. They either don’t notice the right light goes solid or don’t recognize that that a solid right light means you’re about to turn.

IMHO, it’s safer to actually turn off the flashers for a few moments before applying the turn signal.

Also, when there’s no oncoming traffic, drift to the left lane and block the passing lane before you get to the turn so they don’t think that slowing down means “Hey, this is when I should pass.”

 

[MossRoad]

I think tractor turn signals have a dangerous design.
Typically, and others can verify, other drivers following see two flashing hazard lights, then when you put the left “turn signal” on, the only change is that the RIGHT light STOPS flashing.
This is foreign to most drivers who are used to, and triggered by, a light that STARTS flashing to indicate the vehicle is about to turn that direction. They either don’t notice the right light goes solid or recognize that this means you’re about to turn.

IMHO, it’s safer to actually turn off the flashers for a few moments before applying the turn signal.

Also, when there’s no oncoming traffic, drift to the left lane and cut off the passing lane before you get to the turn.

Kinda like turn signals on a fire truck or state highway snow plow or ambulance. No one sees the little blinker over all the other bright flashing lights.