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I am not good on the seat belt either.

Another thing is the guys with collapsible/foldable ROPS...don't always extend them.

Interesting video.

One thing that is a big deal to me at the farm is plowing snow at the end of my drive way by the street.  I always turn on all lights and flashers...we are just off a sharp corner with limited sight distance to the East and to the west it is a straight away...Try to be as visible as possible.

  The speed limit is actually posted as 35 but no way to enforce it.  The thing is our street is kind of a short cut for people from a wealthy lake community to get to the city and the drive like hell.  More than a few of those cit-idiots have ended up in my swamp as they go to fast on that sharp curve...they learn real fast that it is a 8 foot drop off into my swamp. Most of them usually just dump the front wheels over the bank and bottom out on the under carriage...back in the day they would ask me to pull them out with the tractor...I pulled off a few bumpers and left a lot of mufflers behind.

One thing we learned that slow traffic down and decreases traffic is to let the manure wagon 'leave' a little on the road...not supposed to do that....but it is effective.