Little Room For Error

The bridge over the Nehalem River looks large, but when it is time to drive the stock trailer or the Big Red Beast or other equipment, shows that the lane is just barely wide enough. Less than a half inch on either side of the trailer is a very small margin.

Mike has perfected the art of hitting the bridge  at just the correct angle to allow tires on both sides of whatever he is moving to fit inside the rails of the flatcar that used to be a train. This of course was after years of shredding tires, but he is really good at not doing that now.

When we need to use the tractor to move the stock trailer around (which is when it is too wet to use the pickup), it is much harder to align the tires with the bridge since the tractor is narrower than the trailer and has no mirrors that can be monitored. Mike is the much better driver so he does that while I stand at eye level at the incline of the bridge an eyeball his progress. I remind Mike that I have terrible depth perception and cannot tell a straight line from S-curves and that my arms stretched out could mean three feet or three inches but I get this job anyway.

Between the two of us he successfully gets the trailer hauled across the bridge and back over to where it needs to be parked in the driveway with very little room for error.

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