Case 830 "Case-O-Matic" towing question

HI,
Since I got to get it home, if I pull the 830 Case-O-Matic rather than loading it, will it hurt it. We have about 10 miles of county roads to bring it home.
J Heitkemper, or anyone else know?
It's a narrow front, and my neighbor has practice chaining them to a truck and haulin without a trailer.
I know some newer vehicles have to have all 4 off the ground to tow, or it can burn up the trans,etc.
We can keep it at 20mph since they're back roads, if that helps keep it from overheatin.
Comments Please?
Thanks, Dan

I am only a common sense cuntry Boy , so others PLEASE CORRECT ME , if I advise wrong ??,, Personally a 10 mile pull around these parts , With hills , curves cliffs,and crazy people driving that have their head in their az2 much is out of the question ,, Perhaps You have streat runs with no traffic where that 830 resides ??,, in that case , IF THE 830 HAS WORKING BRAKES , it probably wuld have no effect on the c-OMtranny if it were towed thE DISTANCE OF 10 miles or a thousand ...

J heitkemper:
Thanks for response. I'm in Illinois flatland, and its far enough out the only crazies would be us pullin' it. After the first mile, doubt we'd see another vehicle at all.

By the way, didn't see your email address.
If you really don't mind me buggin ya from time to time,
once I can get goin on this, my email is:

[email protected]

I'll give you a better email to contact me at if you email me there first.
Really appreciate your help.
I'll pick up a service manual and parts manual, to limit my questions.
--Dan

By the way, yes I will bead up the front tires first, just in case anybody's wonderin'.
And I misunderstood, I guess the engine is NOT locked up. Just hasn't been started for a LONG time...

I wouldnt attempt it! 20mph behind a truck? how would you stop it? call a tow company and have it delivered safely to your place of choice on the back of a nice rollback truck.

Dan, Put tires and tubes on the front, install a battery, put high octane gasoline in the tank and see if that machine will crank up. Air up those back tires and drive it home. At 10 mph it will only take an hour to get there. If it ran when it was parked there, it might crank right up providing the fuel line is not plugged. Good luck and God Bless, and have a great Christmas with your New Case Toy. ---Derrol in Texas --Case LA Propane

If it is not in gear. the COM will not be turning. Be just like pulling a trailer. Maybe make a tow bar to mount to the frount. I help customise my dads truck. Pulling a D14 allis. My brother stopped and I couldn't stop that fast. You got the picture.

run your chain through a pipe from tractor to tow vech. and tighten it up.

With it in neutral com wont even turn. If you tow make sure there is oil in transmission.

I appreciate everyones advice.
Probably try to get it to run on the spot, as suggested,
then drive home. If too much involved, then we have some options.
Just sold my gooseneck a month or two ago;
never need somethin til ya sell it.
I've got time to come up with a safe way to tow,
if we don't come up with a proper trailer.
The trip itseld:
Only one left turn, then straight down an old barely used county road to my place, all flatland. We'll get it.
Just wanted to make sure I wouldn't burn anything up towin it, kinda like Jeep Quadratrac can't be towed.
Worse comes to worse, I'll just hire it done.
Thanks again, Dan

BTW--anxious to get it home, but I still owe a little on it...anticipation and waiting, difficult for me, lol.

I don't think anything would get hurt if towed.

I'll agree, a trailer or hiring it done is probably safest, but I have pulled many tractors and combines home behind a pickup with a strap/chain, including:

Massey Harris 33, 44 special
Farmall H, M
Case 800
JD 45 combine (3) 55 combine
Massey Ferguson 300, 510, 750 and 760 combines
MM UTS
AC WC

Is it necessarily safe? I suppose that's the argument... Ya, a couple of the combines are a bit big to tow, but how safe is it to let the machine sit in the road when it breaks down on the way home?

I'd say on a short pull, if you're comfortable doing it, have at it..

Just an opinion
Brad

Drove by that tractor a thousand times, didn't realize it was an 830. Spent a lot of time on a diesel wide front version when I was young. Sure glad it's going to a good home, instead of the scrap yard.

i TOO , would have top try starting it on the spot ..but I wouildn't burn up all my daylite so u cant get home before dark....

With only 10 miles, and being out in the country such as you are, I wouldn't hesitate a minute to just hook on and pull it home, but speaking from experience, I can tell you that 20 mph is going to be way too fast because those rear tires are going to have flat spots from setting in the same place for so long, and that tractor WILL start bouncing. Keep you speed down to about 10 and you should be just fine.

Well, I said "20" just throwin a number out there, but thanks for the reasuurance about goin' slower. we'll be careful. 10's probably more about right, if that fast.
Fortunately, my neighbor ain't been hit in the head as many times as I have, so He can make sure we're safe---though I try my best to do the same.

Just couldn't see it go to scrap.
Been lookin at it too.
Thanks for your support.
I've been by there many a time,
saw Jim out and had my wife pull in so I could talk to him.
Real good guy.
It'll be awhile for I move it, don't go borrowin parts off of it now, lol.
Only teasin'.
I plan to post in 'tractor talk' about somethin else, Lord help me.
The C, this 830, and check my new tread under 'tractor talk'.
Made the mistake of walkin behind his south building (with permission).
It's a dream come true to me, and d*mn I got a good wife.
Unless she's hidin' calls to the divorce attorney...lol.

My wife and I pulled my old DC home about 6 miles with a pick up truck while using a tongue from an old wagon for a tow bar - she drove the truck and I rode on the tractor. If you do not have an old wagon tongue laying around then a chain running inside a length of pipe (as mentioned by someone else) also works well for low speed towing. Either of these set-ups will provide braking from the pick-up to the tractor if needed where as using a chain or tow strap alone mandates that the the tractors brakes work well.

Even at 10 mph the flat spots on the tires from the tractor sitting so long may provide a rather bumpy ride until the flat spots eventually work themselves out (speaking from experience on my part with a tractor that sat in a barn for 10 years). I would recommend you keep your speed close to 10 mph or so maximum and you will not have any problem.

I myself would tow it home where I had tools and equipment readily at hand instead of fooling with trying to get it running at a remote location. My assumption is based on the premise that if the tractor has sat there long enough to rot the front tires off, then you are not likely to get it running quickly and easily. Plus what are you going to do if it quits on you during the trip home? Might as well get your rigging all set up while convenient and out of harms way instead of doing it at the side/middle of the road.

Neighbor and I went and looked today.
He's got many years experience with equipment over me.
We'll just pull 'er after a couple fresh front tires and tubes.
I'm figurin about 70+ down the interstate,
so's we can get there quick for somethin' happens.

OK, sarcasm, we'll be alright, these are some FLAT back roads.
Anticipation may kill me, tho , so there may be no worries anyway.
somethin about get 'em finally home...
it'll be ok
I'll shut up now.
OH, if we do have any majors, I'll try to bring a camera so everbody can have a good laugh, lol. :lol: