Chuck Smith
2000 Club Member
- Location
- NJ
I know we have talked about this before, but I saw a grader the other day, and it kinda freaked me out. I was heading into work, and it had snowed about 8" there. I had my blade on (not plowing), and was in 4wd going up a hill and around a turn. It was snowing heavy. It was 7 AM on a saturday. No one on the roads, no one really working at the arsenal on saturday. I come up the hill, and around the turn, and here comes the OD green road grader, plowing. He had the blade on the front, I guess a 10' blade, not sure of the brand. The part that freaked me out, is that he was doing about 30 MPH clearing one side of the road, all the way over the double yellow line. The way he was doing this, was by "crab walking". He was using the 4 wheel steering, and had it maxed, so this thing was coming down the road diagonally, but going straight! We passed to fast for me to fully realize what he was doing. Later on, he passed the building I work in, and I got a view from the third floor. He was plowing diagonally again, but I saw why. He had the blade down on the front, and he also had the belly blade down. The front blade was angled full left, and the belly full right. He was clearing about a 14' wide swath in one pass.
Pretty slick, never saw that before. I saw the grader on the site before, but not plowing, and from a distance, it's hard to see what's what with it being camoflaged and OD green. The belly blade was flat black too.
When I came around that turn, I had no idea what way he was going, it looked like he was coming straight at me!
~Chuck
Pretty slick, never saw that before. I saw the grader on the site before, but not plowing, and from a distance, it's hard to see what's what with it being camoflaged and OD green. The belly blade was flat black too.
When I came around that turn, I had no idea what way he was going, it looked like he was coming straight at me!
~Chuck