Tractor Carrier

Does anyone make a tractor carrier where I could put the front two tires of my JD 70 row crop on a carrier and leave the rear tires on the ground and pull it down the road in my pick-up?
 
Local story about that being done here back in the day and the tranny got hosed. I don't know what model they were towing (might have been earlier) but it didn't turn out well. Maybe I don't know something about a 70, but I would trailer it all or drive it.
 

I've seen a few that were homemade, and worked fairly well, but you still cannot travel down the road at any speed greater than what the tractor would do by itself.

Either buy a trailer, or just get on the tractor and drive it. If you need your truck to be there also, figure out a way to pull the truck behind the tractor.
 
Nobody makes anything like that.

What are you looking to do with such a thing?

Just for reference you would have to limit your speed to about 20MPH or else risk damaging the tires and transmission on the tractor. If you are hauling long distances frequently, you will be wearing out the expensive rear tires on the tractor. Don't forget brakes either. Your truck will have to stop the 6000lbs behind it.
 
I have seen dollies like this( has plate in center) used to move tractora short distance.Also get one with brakes on it.If it was me I would haul it on a trailer.
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Buddy of mine had a Ford backhoe in about 1963. Just had a big bolt in the floor of a chevy ton truck. Lined it up and lifted front wheels off the ground. Pulled it all over central Il. He had a good story about clutch going out on the chevy. So he got the backhoe going and into high gear. Then crawled over tractor hood and loader and into truck. It was cold and there were two of them.
 
I wouldnt even try what your talking bout. I got a flat that wasnt fixable and mine is a 800 dollar tire. Trailer much better option
 

I know when I was a kid, we towed the JD 4020 about 10 miles. We had the gear shift in the tow position starting out, but apparently it jiggled out - and it thrashed a bearing in the transmission.

Between that worry - and the potential for it fish-tailing on you, I'd sure be leery of trying to move a tractor very far that way.

Just my two cents...


Howard
 
why would you have to limit your speed to around 20? new farm tractors do darn near 50 with CVT transmission our Massey dose 48
 
know a guy that pulls his pulling tractor all over the place by the front wheels on a car dollie trailer years a go we pulled a to-20 ferguson with a tow bar from one farm to the other did 35 to 40 all the time and tractor is still running to this day
 
Vic - there was a guy in our neighborhood that had a similar setup, but the rear wheels of the backhoe rode on a wheeled carrier. He would pick the rear wheels off the ground with the outriggers, then roll the carrier under it. His hitch pin bolted to the bottom of the loader bucket. I can't remember how the pin locked to the truck. This was about 1970, and the backhoe was nearly new - I think it was a straight 580.

I used to have one of those narrow front carriers that the original poster was asking about. I made it using a couple of pickup spindles and some heavy angle iron. A couple of little ramps dropped down in the back to drive the front wheels up into the carrier. A chain welded to a heavy bolt held the front wheels in the carrier. It worked fairly good - pulled just fine, but I didn't try to pull it very fast. I remember that my pickup would spin out on the gravel hill going out our lane, because I had the tractor front wheels right between the dolly wheels, and the weight of the tractor going up the hill would lift the hitch and lighten the back of my pickup. If I were to make another one, I'd have the weight of the tractor wheels a little ahead of the dolly wheels. I didn't use it much and traded it for a ground drive Case manure spreader.
 
I have a homemade one that is probably 40+ years old. It is at friends place. Very easy to build one if you have a welder.
 
Towed a A & B Deere a lot with mine with no problems at 30 mile per hour. It is at friends place and I know others have used it.
 
Yes it's been done and in fact I've read at least two articles about it in that Farm Show magazine over the years, but you have to remember that was 40, 50, 60+ years ago.

Times were different back then. There were a lot less people. Things moved slower. People were more tolerant of the "Git-R-Done" attitude.

Today I would not even consider trying to haul a tractor with one of those jerry-rigged contraptions on a public road. Heck I would think twice about even trying to drive a tractor these days. Maybe if you're out on a back road in Montana or something, but around here you're constantly dodging overtired, overstressed, medicated, unskilled, and/or distracted drivers who will plow straight into the back of a police cruiser with all lights flashing because they didn't see it.
 

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