Hauling a 91 IH Combine On A Car Trailer

It was too long and too wide at 98"to go on forward on a 84" wide car trailer.So we pulled it on backwards with the right tire staying inside the trailer frame rail.When the left combine tire reached the trailer fender we jacked it up with a floor jack and took the left combine tire off.When then come a longed it back 2-3 ft more and sat it down on blocks.

With a corn head and 5 weights on the rear axle the 91 probably weighed 6500-7000 lbs so we put alot of tongue weight on the pickup.We went 152 miles on the back roads at 40-50 mph with no problems.

• 91 IH

The trailer weighs 1500 lbs empty and the combine weighs 6700 lbs.Thats 8200 lbs total.The trailer has (2) 3500 lb axles and is carrying 7000 lbs of the weight.That means the tongue weight is around 1200 lbs.Tell me whats wrong with that?

I used to pull a 3 axle 18 ft bumper hitch trailer all over the midwest hauling up to 10,000 lb tractors with no problems.It was pulled by a 79 Chev K-30 4x4 with a bumper.