My son was going up and down the highways on his ipod and saw this. Asked me and my guess if farm equipment, but really do not know. Told him a surveyor somewhere would know because they are such a smart bunch. In NW Iowa, just south of Bigelow.
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Scott
Optimus Prime?
Looks like a combine (a.k.a. harvester) that is pulling the head behind.
However, being blue, I don't know the brand.
I only remember the green ones (John Deere) and the red ones (International Harvester).
Blue would probably be Ford.
You don't see many of them for large scale operations around where I live - mostly JD and IH.
Looks like a conventional tractor pulling an empty belly dump(grain or gravel) trailor. For some reason the shadow appears as blue and it distorts the image.
Compare it to the empty bed of the truck that's about 3540' ahead (n by ne) of him on the same road.
Yes, The one up the road is easier to understand. My son asked if the blue was a shadow and I told him, "No, I have never seen a blue shadow". 😀
Thanks, all of you.
> Blue would probably be Ford.
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> You don't see many of them for large scale operations around where I live - mostly JD and IH.
I wondered about that Ford connection. I think their farm implement operation is called New Holland. I don't recall ever seeing any of those in south-central IL growing up.
Boeing has some tractor/trailer's that have a seat in the back wheels, for somebody to drive the back wheels; used to haul large plane parts...
Maybe boeing's shipping plane parts through that region:-S
Weird how the shadow garbles the view. I think it's a common trailer bed with sides which makes it appear narrower due to the shadow caused by one side. If there really is something extending beyond the rear end of the trailer, I'm guessing it's a small forklift. I've seen that many times where the load is building supplies. The load the trailer, then somehow get the forklift to clamp itself to the rear end. When they get to the jobsite, they use the forklift to unload all the supplies, then reattach it to the trailer for return to headquarters.
It most definitely is NOT a piece of farm equipment.
Well I noticed that the area that looks like a seethru to the road . . . is not, since the lane stripes aren't seen in that area.
Found a jetliner flying somewhere west of Boston once. Upon close inspection, the image was something like seven different images, each a slightly different color. That is what makes trying to figure out this image so difficult. It isn't just a snapshot. It is multiple shots.
Well . . . I know two things.
The trailer is box-trailer height since the distance from the tires to the top of the trailer(where the light color begins on the side/top), is the same as a couple more trailers about a mile down the road.
The shadow bears this out inthat the shadow from our truck falls on flat pavement(the lane next to us), and the other trucks fall on the edge of the road with about a 2-3 foot berm and a fall-off to a ditch, which makes their shadows look longer.
But there seems to a be a repetitiveness of something in the area of the trucks tractor.
Maybe a series of lights on top or a bad melding of the photos. I wonder about the melding of photos cause in the area immediately behind the tractor there's another series.
I think it's a tanker truck, the blue is shadow, and the merge in the photo skews up the cab.
