hauling a disc pics

jon f mn · Dec 31, 2013

Came across this in Tx. I'm a firm believer in if you bought it just go get it so if I'm shaking my head you've probly crossed the line to "it's a bad idea" territory. lol He had one chain in the back, one maybe 3" strap in front. It was not even sitting on the blades it was on the tires and tongue jack. No wide load or flags either. And I would guess significantly overloaded in the front too since it was all in front of the tires.

2badlybent · Dec 31, 2013

I haul a lot of machinery but would not even think about hauling a mess like that. Can you imagine the amount of trouble if that thing came loose and landed in the middle of that road?
Big fine, loss of my CDL and hike in my insurance rate. However I have seen some simaler sights going down the road in front of my home. There is no accounting for stupidity.

Last year I hauled two 12 foot discs with fold-up wings 200 miles thru traffic. I had several chains on each disc and wide load signs front and rear. Believe me when I say I was a nervous wreck when I finally reached my destiation.

Tech 7 · Dec 31, 2013

I would not make it past my own line fence if I attempted a move like that! The time spent knocking that down to a safe size would be well spent as opposed to living the rest of your life with the memory of this going bad.

ohiojim · Dec 31, 2013

don"t believe it"s sitting on the tires,....I see blocks on the trailer deck under it....it also don"t look over width,...I guess I"m the only one on here who would haul it that way...but hey, that"s just me

Mtractor · Dec 31, 2013

Where at in Texas?

jon f mn · Dec 31, 2013

Followed him up 35w by Ft. Worth to 35 then north a few miles til I got off.

notjustair · Dec 31, 2013

Well, you need that all up front. If you moved it back it might end up messing up the paint on top of those fenders. You know how a load shifts - you've got to plan ahead to take good care of your equipment.

jon f mn · Dec 31, 2013

It had blocks and the front gang started out on them, but nothing under the rear and the front had fallen off the blocks. And it was at least 12' wide, the trailer fenders are 102" I'm sure. I would have hauled it on that trailer too, but I would have taken the tongue off and loaded it sideways over the wheels where it should be. A few 2x10's to block it up to fender height and so it sets on the blades is cheap compared to loosing it on the highway.

rustyfarmall · Dec 31, 2013

(quoted from post at 15:04:05 12/31/13) don"t believe it"s sitting on the tires,....I see blocks on the trailer deck under it....it also don"t look over width,...I guess I"m the only one on here who would haul it that way...but hey, that"s just me

If it hangs over the side of the trailer, it is overwidth. Period!

showcrop · Dec 31, 2013

(reply to post at 14:03:53 12/31/13)

The next time the topic of what you can haul legally comes up he can chime in with I hauled this on that for XXX miles and nobody bothered me so it has to be OK.

RAW in · Dec 31, 2013

In 84 I think, I towed a 25' IH Disc from west of Madison Wisc. to Oelwein, with a 1 ton GMC. About 200 mi. and all n two-lane rds. HWY 18 most of the way. I actually towed real well, but I was kind of nervous S of Prairie Du Chein. There was a long curved bridge over the Wis. river than, and you could not see from one end to the other because of the curve. Lucky ther was no traffic because there was no room to meet anybody on the bridge.

Mark - IN. · Dec 31, 2013

Come on, be nice. Be nice. Sometimes can overlook a few things.

Mark

1206SWMO · Dec 31, 2013

It looks like a 21 ft Krause model 1904 disk which would weigh about 3 tons..I pulled one just like it 100 miles home with a 1967 Ford F-100....I ran the back roads with an escort behind me..

Over the years I've done lots of crazy things but usually go the back roads..Most things that I haul have 4 chains on them..

Texasmark1 · Dec 31, 2013

He is on the interstate, probably had tags on his trailer, isn't that far over, is a farm implement, a pair of 3750# axles under the trailer, paying attention to what he's doing.

Go fly a kite yankee!!!!!!!!!!

Mark, born, raised and will die a TEXAN! IN SPITE OF YOU WHINING YANKEES.

Alan K · Dec 31, 2013

Ive heard of people pulling discs or field cultivators down the interstate at 40 to 50 mph.....glad I wasnt near lol.

Tom Jubilee · Dec 31, 2013

Welcome to Texas!!! We try to not be "Over Governmized" here

mudcreek183 · Dec 31, 2013

Back in the fall two men bought a 6 row corn planter from me they just loaded on the goose neck road way pulled it on with a tractor instead of sideways and taking the hitch off. Put on strap on in and down the road they went didn't even care if TDOT caught them.

jon f mn · Dec 31, 2013

Sadly, this is not unique to Tx.

jon f mn · Dec 31, 2013

That is a texas sized chip on your shoulder. lol A bit of advice that I'll pass along from my father, he gave it to me whenever I would be pouting like a little girl for whatever reason. "You better get over that or you'll die mad".

john in la · Dec 31, 2013

"If it hangs over the side of the trailer, it is overwidth. Period!"

Actually that is not true.

As long as you do not exceed over width laws (96" or 102" depending on what road you are on) you are allowed to hang over the side of the trailer.
0 to 4" and you need nothing.
Over 4" and you need the extremities of the load marked with red or orange fluorescent warning flags. Each warning flag must be at least 18" square.
You are also allowed to hang off the rear up to 4 feet with nothing. Over 4 feet and you need same flags.
This is for daylight hours. At night you need lights.

Read FMCSA §393.87 Warning flags on projecting loads.

Dick L · Dec 31, 2013

Never seen a pontoon boat stopped for over width hanging over both sides of a trailer.

Chris Jones · Dec 31, 2013

everything is bigger in TX! And as far as strapping it down, like I heard one fellow successfully explained to a cop--no, the chains will not handle the weight of the tractor but they will handle the weight of the trailer. I didn't secure the tractor on top of the trailer I secured the trailer underneath the tractor.

4020deereboy · Dec 31, 2013

Boy your better get yer asbestos nnalert out !! Personally I wouldn't haul it that way and I've started using a pilot car when I get a big load on.

jon f mn · Dec 31, 2013

Now that made me laugh!!! I doubt it would work for me tho. lol

Chris Jones · Dec 31, 2013

I'm sure I wouldn't get away with it either.

Frank 41 · Dec 31, 2013

I hauled a 12' AC self propelled combine on a tandem F750 over the old bridge at Cairo, IL. I met several cars and trucks and went slow. This was back in the early 60's with no flags or escort.

Cliff Nelson · Dec 31, 2013

When I worked for a Deere dealer we had a customer bought a 12 row front folding corn planter several hundred miles away. 6 rows wide in transport with wheels at the back. He had the seller set the 3 point hitch drawbar on the back of the floor on his grain truck. He then drilled holes and used U bolts to bolt it to the floor. Pulled it all the way home with no problems.

shaun wallace · Dec 31, 2013

Back when working for custom haybaler moved 4020 JD with 16ft hydraswing on bumper pull 16ft 5 bolt axles behind F150 all over the place. Had farm tags on truck and trailer, when did see popo they just smiled and waved.

504 · Dec 31, 2013

Nothing to do with this load(look good to me) but I have a friend who was stopped with a load in Missouri, and it was explained to him ANYTHING over thirteen feet wide and on trailer is a super load and needs escorts, signs and flashing lights. He was getting ready to argue about his load being a Ag load and not needing a permit, till the Officer caught his eye and he saw he was getting a warning, not a ticket. He was driving a semi with everything he needed except a 14ft wide permit. Just saying to watch your selves out there.
BTW if he was pulling the load behind his pick up he would have been legal, as long as it was not on a trailer.

showcrop · Jan 1, 2014

(quoted from post at 19:47:36 12/31/13) Nothing to do with this load(look good to me) but I have a friend who was stopped with a load in Missouri, and it was explained to him ANYTHING over thirteen feet wide and on trailer is a super load and needs escorts, signs and flashing lights. He was getting ready to argue about his load being a Ag load and not needing a permit, till the Officer caught his eye and he saw he was getting a warning, not a ticket. He was driving a semi with everything he needed except a 14ft wide permit. Just saying to watch your selves out there.
BTW if he was pulling the load behind his pick up he would have been legal, as long as it was not on a trailer.

That is a major point, Farm equipment on the ground is farm equipment. On a truck or trailer it is freight and treated very differently in the FMCSA

Texasmark1 · Jan 1, 2014

Not mad just factual. I don't go to your state first of all. Secondly if I were to I wouldn't be bashing it. Been a lot of comments lately about Texas and as I said, if you don't like it stay out. But that's not the trend. Lots of good jobs here and we get a lot of license plates that don's have "The Lone Star State" printed on them. Causing infrastructure problems big time.

Mark

rustyfarmall · Jan 1, 2014

(quoted from post at 17:35:38 12/31/13) Never seen a pontoon boat stopped for over width hanging over both sides of a trailer.

But I imagine that pontoon trailer had over-width placards on both ends, and a purchased permit so they could legally display those overwidth placards. You can pretty much haul anything you want to on the highways so long as you pay the fees up front.

rustyfarmall · Jan 1, 2014

(quoted from post at 17:27:44 12/31/13) "If it hangs over the side of the trailer, it is overwidth. Period!"

Actually that is not true.

As long as you do not exceed over width laws (96" or 102" depending on what road you are on) you are allowed to hang over the side of the trailer.
0 to 4" and you need nothing.
Over 4" and you need the extremities of the load marked with red or orange fluorescent warning flags. Each warning flag must be at least 18" square.
You are also allowed to hang off the rear up to 4 feet with nothing. Over 4 feet and you need same flags.
This is for daylight hours. At night you need lights.

Read FMCSA §393.87 Warning flags on projecting loads.

Maybe so where you live, but not in Iowa.

sixtyninegmc · Jan 1, 2014

(quoted from post at 07:19:31 01/01/14) Not mad just factual. I don't go to your state first of all. Secondly if I were to I wouldn't be bashing it. Been a lot of comments lately about Texas and as I said, if you don't like it stay out. But that's not the trend. Lots of good jobs here and we get a lot of license plates that don's have "The Lone Star State" printed on them. Causing infrastructure problems big time.

Mark

Only in Texas would pointing out a stupid person count as bashing the state. Besides, you really wanna get silly, us Yankees done invaded your little patch of desert and won, I think that gives us the right to visit whether you like it or not

Eldon (WA) · Jan 4, 2014

Pulled this chisel plow home a couple of years ago....90 miles, hit Spokane rush hour due to some problems getting the thing to stay up. 50 mph on I-90.

Noticed this sticker when I got home LOL!

JWWnGA · Jan 5, 2014

If it was me I would have just hooked it to the truck and took off.
It looks ok to me like that though he could use another tie down or two.

JWWnGA · Jan 5, 2014

If it was me I would have just hooked it to the truck and took off.
It looks ok to me like that though he could use another tie down or two.

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