Moving combines

fdt860 · Jun 6, 2022

I finally had to remove all the stuffs out of my parents place and send them to mine in middle of France.
Ibought the 860 in 2000 when I was 20, and the super 92 in 2016, while living in Usa.
I flipped the 860 front wheels to narrow it down.
The super 92 loading was interesting, because the hauler did not have a good way to widden the trailer. I had to load it driving on slightly less than 1/2 tire. That combine runs like a champ and will be restored to new someday!

fdt860 · Jun 6, 2022

The trailer with the 860 combine is a telescopic floor 45 metric tonnes, with aitomatic rear steering lowboy.
The trailer extends to 60 feets, but was shortened max there.
I wanted to put both combines on one trailer, but it is forbidden to have two combines on the same overwidth load...

Timmycornpicker · Jun 7, 2022

I like the idea of a banner that says Exceptional Load on trucks here in the US instead of the inelegant Wide Load. It just sounds classier!

rrlund · Jun 8, 2022

And here I was having an out of body experience driving my K2 on a 108 inch trailer with room on either side. LOL

caterpillar guy · Jul 17, 2022

Nice neat looking loads. Well done loading. Filled all the holes on the trailer with pieces. I see you didn't cover the windshield on the front for stone protection on the road. They should have covered the exhaust against the turbo spinning while not running. If they do it can ruin the trubo with dry bearings. I always taped them or covered them with something. I did load a McCormick model one time they had like sponge rubber they poked down the pipe and said would blow out when it started at the other end to cure the problem on new tractors.

fixerupper · Jul 17, 2022

I don't want to act like a know it all because I certainly do not know it all, but we hauled 8 combines on the harvest many thousands of miles each without covering the exhaust and never lost a turbo. These were 2388's with straight pipes, we mostly hauled them facing forward but one trailer required the combine to be facing backward. I'm not saying you can't dry spool a turbo hauling a turbocharged combine or tractor on a trailer, there are so many different designs out there, but we just didn't have trouble with it. Maybe the exhaust pipe placement on these 2388's prevented dry spooling?

caterpillar guy · Jul 18, 2022

Fixer upper I did the same with 10 9600's back in the day and first year with that guy we has 2 8820's and 6 9600's never covered them either and didn't have a problem. He owned the combine so it would have been his dime. When I hauled them for people I covered them since it would have been my dime. I'm not trying to sound like I didn't care just never seemed to be an issue to him. I guess if one was out in 10 it was pocket change to him and would probably been put under warranty with new machines each year. I guess it would depend on how bad someone did or did not want the risk.

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