The paper created EXCLUSIVELY for farm families and rural residents of east central Alberta 8 PAGES | AUGUST 20, 2024
Photo by Ron Pilger
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With harvest underway, it’s a time to be extra vigilant, extra cautious, whether you are directly involved in the business of farming, or simply impacted by farming operations. The size of modern equipment brings potential dangers to operators as well as the general public. If you are sharing country roads, or rural highways with tractors, grain augers, sprayers or combines, recognize the slow speed, enormous size, and blind spots that are unique to each piece of equipment. Give every piece of farm equipment, and the operator of same, extra space and a healthy dose of latitude and patience as you share the roadway in the coming weeks. If you’re in the driver’s seat as you move farm equipment down the road, be ever-cognizant of the size of your machine. Exercise extra cautions this harvest as you move near or under power lines. Power companies urge you to adopt a 7-metre stay-clear rule for truck boxes, air seeders, combines and augers. In the event of a downed power line, a minimum of 10-metres is required.
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