Combine escort vehicle sign

rustymcsocks

rustymcsocks

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I want to get a sign made up for the front of the tractor and pickup for when we're moving the combine during harvest.

We live and work by the coast so lots of city slickers beach bound with no notion of what's coming against them on the road or what to do especially in the narrow places.

I was thinking
"Pull in, Combine on the move"
I want simple and not too wordy.

Any suggestions would be very welcome
 
rustymcsocks said:
I want to get a sign made up for the front of the tractor and pickup for when we're moving the combine during harvest.

We live and work by the coast so lots of city slickers beach bound with no notion of what's coming against them on the road or what to do especially in the narrow places.

I was thinking
"Pull in, Combine on the move"
I want simple and not too wordy.

Any suggestions would be very welcome
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Most of them won't know what a combine is or that it is wide.

So keep it simple.

WIDE
Vehicle
AHEAD?


Or
WIDE CONVOY

short and to the point.

Convoy exceptionale, always looks good and like you've come a long way!
 
rustymcsocks said:
I want to get a sign made up for the front of the tractor and pickup for when we're moving the combine during harvest.

We live and work by the coast so lots of city slickers beach bound with no notion of what's coming against them on the road or what to do especially in the narrow places.

I was thinking
"Pull in, Combine on the move"
I want simple and not too wordy.

Any suggestions would be very welcome
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Out of the way F**kers!!
 
I've been giving consideration to getting something very bright and riddled in fairly powerful led flashers with something like
"wide load behind
pull in dumb fcuks"
The stupidity of todays motorists is unbelievable. I did escort duties for the 865 which is 13ft wide and with all the front lights on, beacons on and hazards going along with a wide load sign on the front links of the tractor I'd say 60% of the cars just passed me by with not a look in the world. The amount of cars that had to slam on the brakes when they met the combine and then try reverse back was just annoying. Not remotely amusing and some tried to beckon the combine to go back ffs. I even had fcukwits try to drive round me when I used block the road at junctions and such. One dumb arse drove right up to the front of the combine but the brother was having none of it and kept inching towards the car and forced him to go back to the gate he had insisted on passing by. An embarrassment to him as he couldn't reverse worth a shite. Do these morons think their going to win against a large machine?.
 
diesel power said:
I've been giving consideration to getting something very bright and riddled in fairly powerful led flashers with something like
"wide load behind
pull in dumb fcuks"
The stupidity of todays motorists is unbelievable. I did escort duties for the 865 which is 13ft wide and with all the front lights on, beacons on and hazards going along with a wide load sign on the front links of the tractor I'd say 60% of the cars just passed me by with not a look in the world. The amount of cars that had to slam on the brakes when they met the combine and then try reverse back was just annoying. Not remotely amusing and some tried to beckon the combine to go back ffs. I even had fcukwits try to drive round me when I used block the road at junctions and such. One dumb arse drove right up to the front of the combine but the brother was having none of it and kept inching towards the car and forced him to go back to the gate he had insisted on passing by. An embarrassment to him as he couldn't reverse worth a shite. Do these morons think their going to win against a large machine?.
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Welcome to my world, meet those sorts every day of the week, not alone do you have to do your own driving but you have to drive for others too and for balance and fairness it's not only car drivers but every road user including truck and tractor drivers.
 
I would go with the Convoi Exceptionnel as Donegal has posted above, it is fairly internationally understood in any language I would think.
Short story, I was on the road west of Dingle one day, 45 seater coach up a few cars ahead of us, got to the pinch point of the road bus couldn’t fit past a line of cars coming opposite direction which were out of sight from where we were. After 10 mins a guy in his 40s came down the road our direction, gesturing and saying we all had to back up, at this stage there were up to 40 cars behind the bus. I somehow thought he was a passenger or the tour guide from the bus. So decided to walk up to see the reason for the blockage. Once I got to the bus there was one driverless car with a wife and 3 kids sitting in it blocking the bus, the other 20 or 30 had backed down to various lay-bys. I offered her to back the car down for her but she refused with temper. The bus driver in fairness was making the best effort he could to squeeze against the low wall and a few passengers guiding him. Then the guy that had been telling all of us to back up arrived sat in and proceeded to try and pass the bus. Caught the rock face damaging his bumper. I eventually managed to convince him he was not going to fit. So he agreed to reverse. Then the fun started, I have no idea how this guy backed around a corner for his test. At times it looked like he was attempting to do a 3 point turn he was so sideways on the road. I offered to reverse it but he refused. I eventually did the steering in the window. It took 20 mins to get him back 100m to the first lay-by. The bus driver and myself had a good laugh as he passed by. My wife brought our car as the line had extended to 100 cars or so at that stage behind us.
So a sign saying “combine” would mean nothing to a gobs**ti like him.
 
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KTM Farmer said:
I would go with the Convoi Exceptionnel as Donegal has posted above, it is fairly internationally understood in any language I would think.
Short story, I was on the road west of Dingle one day, 45 seater coach up a few cars ahead of us, got to the pinch point of the road bus couldn’t fit past a line of cars coming opposite direction which were out of sight from where we were. After 10 mins a guy in his 40s came down the road our direction, gesturing and saying we all had to back up, at this stage there were up to 40 cars behind the bus. I somehow thought he was a passenger or the tour guide from the bus. So decided to walk up to see the reason for the blockage. Once I got to the bus there was one driverless car with a wife and 3 kids sitting in it blocking the bus, the other 20 or 30 had backed down to various lay-bys. I offered her to back the car down for her but she refused wit temper. The bus driver in fairness was making the best effort he could to squeeze against the low wall and a few passengers guiding him. Then the guy that had been telling all of us to back up arrived sat in and proceeded to try and pass the bus. Caught the rock face damaging his bumper. I eventually manager to convince him he was not going to fit. So he agreed to reverse. Then the fun started, I have no idea how this guy backed around a corner for his test. At times it looked like he was attempting to do a 3 point turn he was so sideways on the road. I offered to reverse it but he refused. I eventually did the steering in the window. It took 20 mins to get him back 100m to the first lay-by. The bus driver and myself had a good laugh as he passed by. My wife brought our car as the line had extended to 100 cars or so at that stage behind us.
So a sign saying “combine” would mean nothing to a gobs**ti like him.
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Thanks for all the suggestions.

I always got the feeling that wide vehicle meant diddly shit to people not to mind the same in French.

That's why I was maybe thinking straight to the point what is coming up ahead.
 
rustymcsocks said:
Thanks for all the suggestions.

I always got the feeling that wide vehicle meant diddly shit to people not to mind the same in French.

That's why I was maybe thinking straight to the point what is coming up ahead.
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If they ignore it then it's their own fault.
Just keep it simple and understandable
 
rustymcsocks said:
Thanks for all the suggestions.

I always got the feeling that wide vehicle meant diddly shit to people not to mind the same in French.

That's why I was maybe thinking straight to the point what is coming up ahead.
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We have a "Wide Vehicle" sign here, beacons , flashing lights all a complete waste of time, The only solution we have found on narrow roads is to drive to the next passing point be it a wide patch of road or a crossroads and block the road, (Your lights and signs seem to give a license to do this) once you see the combine coming move to the next one block traffic there. People don't mind when they see the combine they understand. Its faster & safer for everybody. Motorists don't read signs at 60 - 70 - 80 Km/hr.
 
The problem is every other vehicle on the road has an orange light on it. On the road I travel to work every day I meet a van with a trailer and lawn mower with two flashing indicator type lights on the front, lorries with empty and loaded low loaders with the same type of lights flashing at the back, car recovery lorries travelling on the road going to or going home from a pick up with all the lights on. These vehicles are all travelling at normal speed and no different in size to any other similar vehicle on the road so now you just ignore them and treat them the same as any other.

I was going to work last week and I met a lorry with a caravan on it and they are wide. I was on top of it before I knew where I was, and I thought to myself why was there no escort vehicle in front as there usually is. I never saw it because I stopped paying attention to anything with an orange light on it.
There was a time you needed a permit to have a flashing beacon and that law should be brought back in and only oversize loads should have them.
 
WestCorkBoy said:
We have a "Wide Vehicle" sign here, beacons , flashing lights all a complete waste of time, The only solution we have found on narrow roads is to drive to the next passing point be it a wide patch of road or a crossroads and block the road, (Your lights and signs seem to give a license to do this) once you see the combine coming move to the next one block traffic there. People don't mind when they see the combine they understand. Its faster & safer for everybody. Motorists don't read signs at 60 - 70 - 80 Km/hr.
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This is a practise I do already. Block the the road and wait for the combine and move on again.

But you'll always meet someone in a fast spot and they're past you before you get a chance to slow them down.
 
WestCorkBoy said:
We have a "Wide Vehicle" sign here, beacons , flashing lights all a complete waste of time, The only solution we have found on narrow roads is to drive to the next passing point be it a wide patch of road or a crossroads and block the road, (Your lights and signs seem to give a license to do this) once you see the combine coming move to the next one block traffic there. People don't mind when they see the combine they understand. Its faster & safer for everybody. Motorists don't read signs at 60 - 70 - 80 Km/hr.
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we saw your gang do that a few yrs back and followed suit it works well
 
rustymcsocks said:
I want to get a sign made up for the front of the tractor and pickup for when we're moving the combine during harvest.

We live and work by the coast so lots of city slickers beach bound with no notion of what's coming against them on the road or what to do especially in the narrow places.

I was thinking
"Pull in, Combine on the move"
I want simple and not too wordy.

Any suggestions would be very welcome
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I would try word the sign so no matter the person they understand, using a word like combine means you're expecting everybody to know what a combine is which unfortunately isn't the case. "wide vehicle following" or include an adjective like "extremely wide load following" for extra attention, 4 strobe lights in each corner in sequence to draw attention, using the word following or having an escort vehicle sign should make a clear message that you are warning them of an on coming hazard if they just see "wide load" they could be thick enough to think the jeep itself is the hazard.
 
No use to the OP but Maybe It's time something was added to the rules of the road about other hazards that they could meet.

I agree with lough as well and said as much when the new RSA rules came out and mean a tractor and transport box need a beacon now.
 
nashmach said:
No use to the OP but Maybe It's time something was added to the rules of the road about other hazards that they could meet.

I agree with lough as well and said as much when the new RSA rules came out and mean a tractor and transport box need a beacon now.
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I remember something about signs having to have specific wording
As in Caution Wide Load
As Danger Wide Load meant you were accepting liability if anything happened
 
A man I used to work with years ago would always move the combine in the dead of night if he could. You could be finished cutting a farm at seven of a summers evening and he'd root around greasing etc til it was pitch black before going the road. Used to annoy the shit out of me at the time but now I can see he was right. Drivers have a lot more respect for beacons in the dark cos they don't actually know what they're meeting and slow down and pull in a lot more.
 
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