Suggestions for moving tractor

Dave H (MI)

Well-known Member
So let me run this by y'all and see if you have any suggestions. First...I want to be safe. Don't want to hurt anyone or any equipment. I have a non-running TD-6 crawler with no blade sitting outside my small shop on property A. I would like to move it to my larger shop on property B. Distance is 20 miles. Crawler weighs in around 10-11K lbs. I have two trucks, Chevy C20 with a frame hitch and a Chevy C50 grain truck with a frame hitch. My largest trailer is rated 7K and I would not consider using it. It will need to be winched on a trailer and I can handle that. I can pull it off at the destination with a loader tractor. Really scratching my head on this. I do not trust the C20 with the weight on the rear end. The C50 hitch is a custom job made for hauling gravity boxes I think. Honestly, I think my best bet is to put it behind another tractor but what kind of trailer should I look to rent that would attach to a tractor drawbar?
 
You might be time and money ahead if you hire a hauler. Any contractors, or excavators, or even farmers that you know that would handle something like this?
 
There should be someone you know with a 14K bumper pull trailer. I have hauled my 4020 with mine behind my chevy 2500 with no issues. It probably weighs over 10,000.
 
Hi Dave I agree if it is a one time deal get some one with a wheeler, air brakes 10 ton trailer etc. May be you can write the fee off your farm taxes??? If they blow tires, rear end or even have a miss hap "oh well" No I would not use a c 20 for that the 50 maybe with proper trailer. And a goose neck 5th wheel would be better.
 
Bumper pull if you get the 2 5/16 ball. 10k hitch and torsion bars. Get the whole deal from travel trailer dist.
 
Have to remember that if a crawler is loaded with ramps or on a dove tail trailer, the crawler will go up at the same angle as the ramps or dove tail until it over centers and the front slams down. Had a neighbor put one thru the floor of his trailer when that happened. His may have been heavier than yours.
 
A pentle hitch on the C50 with the tractor ballanced just a bit forward would be my only possible suggestion. Rent the trailer, or find a equipment mover "friend" Jim
 
Mount a ball hitch on the tractor drawbar or put a pintle hitch between the hammer strap on the tractor drawbar depending on what you can find for a heavier trailer.
 
[color=red:747c35488d]Have to remember that if a crawler is loaded with ramps or on a dove tail trailer, the crawler will go up at the same angle as the ramps or dove tail until it over centers and the front slams down.[/color:747c35488d]


if you slam the crawler down loading it, you probably don't need to operating a dozer.
jwo
 
Are they all back roads of which you can go slow? That helps determine how you tow. If its mostly flat land, can you find a bit heavier trailer and use your farm tractor? That's what I would do.
 
Hire someone. Simple and safe and it can't cost that much! A construction company is sure going to know better than many of us. Maybe $200.oo?
 
I would go to a heavy wrecker company. Here in gr mi we have Buds if they cant do it practicality no one can so thats your best bet. I have a older chevy 2500 that the tranny went out from age but i purchased a 9 ton equipment trailer. I love the trailer for hauling my tractor abit over killbut now i would like to get a 3500 you might know somebody that has that kind of equipment but do they have the knowledge to do so safely
 
as with any trailer you must get the load balance on the trailer. that crawler is not that heavy. and when loading crawlers on a trailer you put 3x12 planks down to run it on. i do that with tractors even. how can you trust those 2x6 planks to hold weight between the crossmembers even though it is fir planking on trailer.
if you want to move it with a tractor get a 2 5/16 ball setup built for the drawbar. then rent a trailer with 2 7000 lb. axles and go for it. you could go for 2x 10,000 axles also but might be hard to find in a bumper pull.
and if i was close to you i would go there with my goose neck and duramax and move it for you.
if you posted pic's of that C50 hitch a person can say yes or no, as it has to be built stong enough. but dont forget balance of your load.
 
Do you know for sure your TD-6 weighs 10-11K or are you guessing?

TractorData.com says a TD-6 weighs 7,280 to 7,800 lbs. Your 7K trailer should haul the TD-6 for 20 miles on fairly level ground with no problem.
 
Heck you could run a gooseneck on the 3pt hitch with one of these deals, if you can find one to borrow:

TT6_TMY.jpg
 
Don't know what the laws are like in your area, but in Iowa a DOT officer told our tractor club that hauling anything on the road with a tractor & trailer is illegal. In other words using your flatbed pulled behind a tractor to tow something is against the law here.
 
I commonly haul my Farmall M that weighs about 6000 lbs on a trailer with 3500 lb axles(2) more than 20 miles with my Lincoln Navigator 5.4L some times putting a Cub on behind it. I have had no problems
 
Appreciate all the hits. I have to think this over some. Not exactly inexperienced at hauling tractors and equipment as I have done it a lot. Had my share of mishaps. The haul would be mostly back roads and unlikely I would ever see the sheriff. Nothing much in the way of hills either. I will weigh all the options and come up with something. Hard to find haulers to do the short loads and everyone is so dang busy around here lately. Thanks for the help!
 
A Chevy C20 with a class V (16,000lb.) hitch and a 14,000 trailer will hall a IH TD6 (7,800 lbs.max crawler only). And as far as loading with beaver tail you use the brakes at the breaking point and let it down easy.
 

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