Brodie knob

[luvrbus]

There is a friggn law against everything if you just spent the time to check lol makes me want spinner knob now

[oltrunt]

They ARE legal in Kalifornia--if you are missing an arm!  Probably something we all should look into???

[Scott & Heather]

Which begs the question: is it safer to drive when you have 1 arm and use a spinner or have two arms and use a spinner. I have a couple of friends who are sadly paraplegic after ATV accidents and since they use hand controls to control the gas and brake, they have a spinner knob to help them steer with their free hand. One of those friends had a wicked modified corvette....let's just say he took me for a ride and had that thing sideways around a corner while accelerating and kept it all under impressive control. I will say if I blow a steer, that knob will be just one of many many worry's...so that's why I run brand new steers.


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[Scott & Heather]

Someone actually post the language in the law that specifically prohibits a spinner. I have read the laws from several states and some will say "no attachment on steering wheel or trim piece should be able to catch jewelry or clothing during normal driving maneuvers". During normal driving maneuvers I could prove in court that my spinner does not catch jewelry or my clothing. So that is a gray area for sure. Unless someone specifically can quote a state law indicating that a spinner is illegal then it's just hearsay. I have been pulled over several times with a spinner installed in my truck without a single mention of it ever. And I've had one in my cars for the past 7 years. I drive 45,000 miles a year so my statistical risk of either crashing or getting a ticket for my knob is three times the national average. So far I'm still alive and ticket free with the cleanest squeaky clean driving record. I've blown three tires too if that makes a difference.

To each their own. It's funny how we put the weight of risk on things without weighing the risks of other things. Some of you guys are comfortable driving after drinking a single beer. I have never had a drop of alcohol in my life and there is scientific proof that just one beer slows your reaction time a little. Some of you drive when you're a bit tired. I limit my road time to 6 hours a day max broken up by an hour long lunch. Heck, some of you chose to live in California...that just increased your risk of death 5 fold over living in rural Michigan ;-)

Risk vs reward. Life is full of calculated risks. If I really wanted to be really really safe, there's no way on earth I'd be driving a 38,000 lb hunk of steel around where I'm mere inches from the windshield with zero crumple zone. The risk is, I could lose my life or legs in even a relatively minor collision. The reward is that if I can manage not to crash, I get to have my family with me while on tour...versus not seeing them much for 6 months out of the year.  

Now that I've publicly typed all this, I expect Karma (which I really don't believe in) to get me a ticket for one soon or crash because of one soon :-/


Sigh.


Maybe I'll permanently injure my arm in the accident and then I can legally and safely use a spinner at that point making this conversation moot. Where's Boxcar Okie?

[silversport]

have one on the John Deere would never have one one the street

[B_K]

Scott sorry to side track this in your direction as being illegal!
I was merely stating that the wonderful CHP DOT officer at the Banning, CA West Bound Scalehouse on I-10 gave me a ticket for having one.
It may be because it was a commercial vehicle, it may have been because I was a long haired redneck truck driver from Cuntucky in his great state of Kalifornication or it may have not been illegal at all and I might have paid a ticket for just being there.
I don't know if it was or wasn't really illegal or not. I do know I was glad that it was the only thing he could find to ticket me for and I was allowed to drive away on my own after "posting bond". (in other words pay now, and if you come to court and win, we'll refund the $! Well I didn't worry about coming back to court to claim my $48 bond!)
  BK 

[DoubleEagle]

Now that I've publicly typed all this, I expect Karma (which I really don't believe in) to get me a ticket for one soon or crash because of one soon :-/

I would not worry about Karma, it is just a psychological bug planted in your brain while it calculates right and wrong, reward and risk, etc. I would just consider how much it would smart if the Knuckle Buster hit your microphone holding hand. Hey, maybe the solution is to have two of them in the 10 & 2 o'clock positions. That way you have both hands on the wheel in the correct positions! 

[bigred]

We too had them on our tractors on the farm and these were all manual steer .Got to wondering once why there was not one on the Farmall M "tricycle" we had. Got one at the filling station(back then every station would would have a display board on their counter ) and put it on Big Red. Needless to say ,this was not the smartest move of my farming career .Went happily down through the field and all was well ---------until that front end caught a rut at the end of the row ,Makes my arm hurt just to think about it !!!!

[Van]

Say what you will but I like how my chrome skull spinner would sit there rotating as if it were motorized atop my custom half wheel, your tickets (where ever they might be) don't frighten me.😎Just the cost of living free!

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[Dave5Cs]

Van is that the Belly wheel, lol
Dave

[Van]

Yuppers Dave 😉

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[Scott & Heather]

Yep this tri gear M's were made by international harvester. I grew up driving our 1946 model all the time. And yes I have scars from the steering wheel burning my wrist it spun so fast when hitting ruts. Loved that tractor.


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[Tikvah]

So my impression, the thought of a steering wheel spinning out of our hands is a manual steering problem.  Yes, your old tractors (I drove one too) and the old manual steer busses.  Yes, I've driven those too.  I can't comprehend my power steering wheel pulling away from me, certainly not to the point of hurting my wrist.

If that were true, a blown tire would send the bus sideways across the median, flipping to its side and taking many innocent motorists with it.  Ya, we've all seen the YouTube video, but I can't imagine that's a real daily risk we take.

A power steering system, like Scott has.. like I have, is easy to control, even in a rut, curb, blown tire, etc.  A spinner knob on the steering wheel isn't going to smash my wrist.  To the contrary, if the wheel wasn't firmly held, the spinner knob might be an asset by being easily "caught" by a unsuspected spin of the wheel.  A quick correction of the wheel, by way of power steering, and the potential accident avoided.

Am I out to lunch?