Whats the furthest you've drove a tractor

blue water massey · Jul 16, 2016

The post about hauling an 11 ton tractor mentions just driving it home.
As I didn't want to high jack that post will ask here instead.
When I moved here 7 yrs ago couldn't afford to pay a hauler to move so it was up to us
2 hrs one way in the P/U 84 miles all country rds its further by highways.
Part of our stuff I loaded on the hay wagon and hauled using my MF 20 TLB took 6 hrs driving one way.
Was a great ride and I actually got to see the country side you normally don't while driving.
Since then I've done the same trip down and back twice on that tractor down one day back the next
with a stop almost in the middle for fuel n food.
Used about 8 gals of fuel one way.
Plan to do the trip again this Aug again it's very enjoyable as long as you're not in a hurry.

So whats the furthest you've driven a tractor on roads?

fixerupper · Jul 16, 2016

I once contemplated driving a Deere R from Fessenden ND to Albert City Iowa, approx. 550 miles but found a way to truck it home for the price of gas. 2 MPG with a Chevy C70 with a bad running 427. Other than that, maybe 50 miles once on a tractor ride.

Buster · Jul 16, 2016

My father in law grew up in Ava, Mo. He told a story about a neighbor that bought a new McCormick Deering 22-36 and thrashing machine in
Springfield, Mo. The tractor and thrasher was on steel wheels. The trip from Springfield to Ava is about 50 miles. Not that far but that had to
have been a long and rough ride back then.

gmccool · Jul 16, 2016

Probably around a 100 miles. I bought a Super M with a Great Bend loader one time & I really didn't want the tractor but I needed the loader that was on it. The guy wouldn't separate them so I bought it all together. The tractor was supposedly just overhauled but it hadn't ran or been out of the shed for several years. It didn't run very good when I started for home but the further I got the better it ran. By the time I got home it was running like a top. I keep it & the loader together & used it for years. Then sold it to a gut & it burnt in his machine shed fire a month or so latter.

loko17 · Jul 16, 2016

Well, I didn't do it but at our most recent tractor show, we had a fellow show up on a 1956 Minneapolis Moline UB Special towing a small car. He had driven to our show from his home on the tractor pulling the car, a distance of 56 miles and he said it took him between four and five hours. For the return trip to his home, he put a buddy seat on the Minnie and he and his girlfriend drove the rig home. If you want to see pictures of him and our show, go to our website, www.massanuttenantiquetractor.com and click on the 2016 Show button.

centash · Jul 16, 2016

Drove my F2 Gleaner about 100 miles with a 13 foot table on it. Years ago, someone from Saskatchewan drove an MF 750 combine from there to Ottawa, several thousand miles in protest of high interest rates. Farmers along the route kept his fuel tank full. Ben

1206SWMO · Jul 16, 2016

In 2004 I drove a G-1000 Vista MM tractor almost 300 miles home from Minneapolis,KS...Then in 2006 I drove a 6030 John Deere 240 miles home from Lindsborg,KS.....It was lots of fun doing both of them and they got 5 miles to the gallon.....The tire wear was non existent..I'd do it again with the right tractor....In the Flint Hills of Kansas for one 25 mile stretch there are no houses,only cattle..

PaGlenn · Jul 16, 2016

Drove my 2000 3cyl gas Ford tractor 3 miles down to the Pump%Pantry to fill it up many times. It was a 40mph county road.

Majorman · Jul 16, 2016

I used to regularly drive my 1952 Fordson Major, petrol/kerosene from my home to The East of England Show at Peterborough, a distance of 60 miles at 11 mph, 120 miles round trip and I have driven a John Deere 960 combine with the cutterbar behind from Dereham to Peterborough for a customer.

I have also twice driven my Nuffield 4/65 with the Major on the back to Newark a distance of 100 miles each way. This was to the Ford 500 rally in 1997 and again to the Tractor 2000 rally in 2000. Nuffield will do 20 mph on the road so that was better than driving the Major at 11 mph.

I drove a Claas Dominator 85 in stages from the south coast of England up to Aberdeenshire in Scotland with the Claas demonstration team, demonstrating each day. I finished on November 5th just North of Aberdeen.

Brent Zappe · Jul 16, 2016

Back in 1994 I had got this Allis Chalmers Model B. I started to rent property in my big town Riverside Ca. One problem was that I did not own a car trailer so I drove it around the town to get it to the land I rented. It was one of the most enjoyable time I ever had. Now I have a trailer and it helps on the cutting time from spot to spot.

LAA · Jul 16, 2016

In January of 1979 a man in Oxford Mississippi paid me and his Nephew to drive a 970 Case and a pick up truck with a fuel tank and tools to Washington DC for the Tractorcade protest, it took around 6 days. I could not stay because I had to go back offshore and he came up and and he bought me a Greyhound bus ticket back to New Orleans. He was going to drive it back himself but the feds impounded all the tractors and I never found out what the final outcome was, as I remember it was a couple months before they released their tractors.

jon f mn · Jul 16, 2016

For a couple years my dad had onwership of a farm 85 miles away and several times a year we drove tractors up and back to work it.

rrlund · Jul 16, 2016

Oliver 77 150 miles from the Yoder and Frey lot in Archbold Ohio to Sheridan Michigan.

coshoo · Jul 16, 2016

Back in the mid-'50's, you could buy N Fords in North Dakota for $200 all day long, and they brought $1,000 in western Washington. We had a neighbor who grew up in North Dakota, and his drinking habits had cost him his driver's license long before. So he would take a Greyhound to Nort Dakota, and buy 3 N Fords and a trailer. Put 2 on the trailer, and tow with the third. Camp along the way. This worked for him, because you didn't have to have a driver's license to drive a tractor on the highway in those days. He did a couple of successful trips, then got a late start on his last one and the weather got a little brisk on the way home. He overdid it on the personal anti-freeze, wound up passed out along side the road, and would have froze to death if not for someone stopping. I guess that scared him a little, so he never did it again.

oldtanker · Jul 16, 2016

Not me but my brother in law drove an IH 1566 home about 300 miles. Claimed it was cheaper than trucking it home. My sister followed in their minivan and they stopped for meals and a motel two nights.

Rick

JMS/.MN · Jul 16, 2016

Started farming in "72, bought a D17 on an auction a good 60 miles from the farm we bought- drove it there on a sub-zero day in Feb. Let"s just say it was more than brisk!

T in NE · Jul 16, 2016

7580 allis with a 6 bottom plow from Conneautville to Northeast, PA. Avoided all towns but Waterford.

It was 40 miles from one end to the other at my old job.

My dad roads the backhoe when he plows gas well driveways. There's times I tracked him down over 20 miles watching for his tracks in the gravel at intersections.

IA Roy · Jul 16, 2016

Back in the 60's dad's cousin started farming around Decorah. He lived south of Marshalltown and bought all his equipment around there. It was between 140 and 150 miles one way. He made numerous trips to get the stuff up there. I was pretty young and don't know any details, but he only lasted a year or two and bought a can cream pickup route and did that for a number of years and then went to school to become a surveyor. He finally married in his late 40's and several years later was helping his wife's family on the farm and fell off the tractor and got ran over and killed.

4xMF · Jul 16, 2016

When I bought my MF 3080 4 years ago I travelled by train to the nearest town. The guy I bought it from picked me up at the station and I drove the tractor home. It was a 100 miles trip.

Old Scovy · Jul 16, 2016

When I was about 13 years old a neighbor bought a MM model R at the auction in Vernon NY and he came home and took me back to drive it home for him. He got me going and took off and left me to get along as best I could. Not very smart of him. The little MM didn't have any lights and no brakes. All I had to see with when it got dark was a flash light that was not all that good. This was back in the 50's so traffic was not as bad as it is now. I think it must have been about 80 miles ? not for sure.

paul · Jul 16, 2016

Drove an F3 combine 45 miles and an F3 combine 110 miles, both had corn heads.

Drove a cabbed tractor 45 miles in winter, and an open station tractor 65 miles - that was a stiff south east wind in spring and I was headed south, man that was a cold day and I had dressed for it, but it was a 28 mile cold wind, could not escape that wind it just took the life out of a person.

Pulled a 14 foot IHC field cultivator 110 miles home on a 2 lane state highway mostly, that was kinda long day.

Worst was an 11 mile trip home with the JD disk, wobbly as all heck and counter weighted to the rear, again a state highway and if I got over 11 mph it would shake and rattle and sway the whole truck around. What a miserable drive home.

Even slower but not as miserable was buying the JD 800 swather years later from the same consignment sale, 11 miles at a walking speed with a 14 foot head.......

Best of the bunch was the F3 with hydro, that fella could move on down the road!

Paul

Pair-a-dice farm · Jul 16, 2016

I don't remember the exact miles but i used to drive a 1030 case tractor pulling a 706A vermeer baler from my farm to the inlaws. I baled my FIL's rice straw. The trip was something over 60 miles one way and I did it every year for 4 or 5 years. It took a little over 4 hours.

Goose · Jul 16, 2016

Once drove an 856 Farmall 68 miles and a JD 105 combine 50 miles.

01gentdc · Jul 16, 2016

it took us from 10 am to 4 pm , to drive 64 miles , tractor for relay for life this may ,. we stopped for 90 minutes; a nice lunch and hit the road the throttle wide open in hi gear on the 730 Case Gasser ,. was a rare thing, we had a few fords , fergies , jd h , allis wc that we kept pace with..i know I drove further and much longer miles on the 430 diesel raking hay in 4th low from 9am -10 pm..but that's doing real farmin..not play driving

moresmoke · Jul 16, 2016

When I bought my loader tractor, it drove the 70 miles home. Took less time and fuel than going home to get a truck and making another trip. Neighbor more than paid my fuel to drag a potato harvester to his place.

Last time I moved, I drove the same tractor 130 miles. Decent trip, except for the one icy downhill around the corner across a narrow bridge.

chuck from neb · Jul 16, 2016

Two years ago I was working for a neighbor ....he bought a dB 80 John Deere planter 280 miles away in South Dakota...we hauled a tractor there and I pulled the planter back

JD630-2520 · Jul 16, 2016

I drove my brothers dodge 2500 50 miles with a forage king bale basket going 15 mph down a country road. The next year my brother drove the JD 45 combine 60 plus miles down the same road. Both trips seem to take forever.

Ken Macfarlane · Jul 17, 2016

A little late but with another pin the castor wheel lifts up and you can go 50 mph with those forage kings.

schultz47 · Jul 17, 2016

Just drove 64 miles Friday & 58 miles yesterday on a tractor ride

Meangreen · Jul 18, 2016

500+ miles across the state of Nebraska last month. 1950 Farmall M and it took us 9 days. Just over 20 of us made the full trip. Many would join in from day to day. Check out TRAN (Tractor Ride Across Nebraska) for more info.

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