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Hi there,
Well I had a bit of an adventure this evening involving our 2388 an icy road and an old man in a cattle truck. Lets call him Jim M.
Anyways, guy was coming at me and stopped, I stopped, pulled over he wouldn't move I drove up close to him and pulled over again, he came at me, I didn't think there was enough room and moved another inch to the right and down I went. Scared the willies out of me. So, then seeing what the guy had caused he drove away...Jerk!!!
Anyways, no one was hurt, the combine wasn't hurt either.
So, here I was, in the ditch. The head was now on the ground, or at least what looked to be on the ground, so I tilted it all the way to one side. Got out in a fit of rage that the guy had just sped away. Then a very nice young kid stopped and asked what he could do, you know, neighbourly stuff. I sent him up the road to "Third High Farms" to send one of the boss's down to see me.
Of course, whenever something like this happens the road you are on becomes the busiest road in the county. I've never seen so much traffic on it before. Oh well, I got to see lots of people and lots of people stopped to talk. Out 9250 showed up with a logging chain. At about the same time Third High Farms TJ330? showed up from the other direction as well. We hooked up the chain to the 3pt of our 9250 and the combine came out like nothing. We were worried that how icy the road was traction would be an issue but it wasn't. Good thing we have a 3pt on the tractor, simply hooking to the drawbar would have NOT been enough.
So away I went again. ALMOST at the shed, I mean I can see the building. And this little ***** with his gf in a POS little foreign car stop in the exact middle of the road. I get over as far as I can without doing the same thing again (that would be embarrassing) and he doesn't move. So, I back up into the middle of the road and drive up to him. Sit there. I jerk ahead. Still sits there. I get out and "nicely" ask him to move. He refuses. I thought about going back and getting a wrench, but instead began to call the police and he finally backed up.
I made it.
So a VERY big thanks to "Third High Farms" for coming to the rescue, I'm very happy we didn't need them, but they were there anyways. Third High is our biggest competitor for land in the area so it does mean a lot that they came out.
An even bigger thanks to Jim M....
And the biggest thanks of all to the Township of South Dundas for (a) building a road up 4ft and then not putting shoulders on and (b) plowing but NOT salting a paved road
Ok, rant like story over.
Warren
Please note that the head is tilted all the way to one side, so the combine is much steeper than the head would trick you into believing
Well I had a bit of an adventure this evening involving our 2388 an icy road and an old man in a cattle truck. Lets call him Jim M.
Anyways, guy was coming at me and stopped, I stopped, pulled over he wouldn't move I drove up close to him and pulled over again, he came at me, I didn't think there was enough room and moved another inch to the right and down I went. Scared the willies out of me. So, then seeing what the guy had caused he drove away...Jerk!!!
Anyways, no one was hurt, the combine wasn't hurt either.
So, here I was, in the ditch. The head was now on the ground, or at least what looked to be on the ground, so I tilted it all the way to one side. Got out in a fit of rage that the guy had just sped away. Then a very nice young kid stopped and asked what he could do, you know, neighbourly stuff. I sent him up the road to "Third High Farms" to send one of the boss's down to see me.
Of course, whenever something like this happens the road you are on becomes the busiest road in the county. I've never seen so much traffic on it before. Oh well, I got to see lots of people and lots of people stopped to talk. Out 9250 showed up with a logging chain. At about the same time Third High Farms TJ330? showed up from the other direction as well. We hooked up the chain to the 3pt of our 9250 and the combine came out like nothing. We were worried that how icy the road was traction would be an issue but it wasn't. Good thing we have a 3pt on the tractor, simply hooking to the drawbar would have NOT been enough.
So away I went again. ALMOST at the shed, I mean I can see the building. And this little ***** with his gf in a POS little foreign car stop in the exact middle of the road. I get over as far as I can without doing the same thing again (that would be embarrassing) and he doesn't move. So, I back up into the middle of the road and drive up to him. Sit there. I jerk ahead. Still sits there. I get out and "nicely" ask him to move. He refuses. I thought about going back and getting a wrench, but instead began to call the police and he finally backed up.
I made it.
So a VERY big thanks to "Third High Farms" for coming to the rescue, I'm very happy we didn't need them, but they were there anyways. Third High is our biggest competitor for land in the area so it does mean a lot that they came out.
An even bigger thanks to Jim M....
And the biggest thanks of all to the Township of South Dundas for (a) building a road up 4ft and then not putting shoulders on and (b) plowing but NOT salting a paved road
Ok, rant like story over.
Warren
Please note that the head is tilted all the way to one side, so the combine is much steeper than the head would trick you into believing
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