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farmallboy15

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I'm looking to get a 12' field cultivator but all the ones I see for sale are a 2 hour drive away via interstate. How do you get your wide
pieces of farm equipment home from a sale? Load it perpendicular on a flatbed and hope it's under 8'?

There is also a local consignment auction but it isn't until the middle of April and would like to find something sooner. In that case I
would just tow it behind the truck via state highway and county roads. I'm in Ohio if it makes a difference.
 
2 hours away at 70mph or 2 hours away at 20 mph white knuckling a cultivator that is trying to wag the dog? With tires that don't like the heat of the drive and wheel bearings that haven't seen grease since they were installed 40 years ago? Not saying it can't be done, but if you know what can go wrong and plan for it, it's not bad. Spare tire or two, grease, and a good jack. Backroad as much as you can.
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Wooster Oh sale has a sale tomorrow. I don't know if they have what you want ? but lots of stuff there. google RES auction Wooster ohio it is on Fry road right off US 30 west of town can't miss it.
 
hook it to truck and go .but why cant you get on clist and just buy one close an old 12 footer should be easy to find setting around un used for years. im looking at a 40 foot drill about 2hrs from home if I get it ill hook it up ,check tires and drive behind semi only for the weight
 
Anyway to work around the interstate even if it doubles your time going home? 12 foot is not bad to deal with and I have to work around Rochester, NY to the west of me. I just skirt around through the rural roads. You start talking wider than that then I would trailer it. You know your area better than anybody else here I would imagine. If you tow it take tools, blocking, jack, spare tire, flares just in case.
 

You cannot transport it on the interstate highway, but pretty much any other road is fair game for agricultural equipment. Check the wheel bearings before you start. Pack more grease into them if you can.
 
If the bearing cap is dry then it is best to bring a grease gun and grease needle to pump grease near the inner bearing.
 
I helped a guy bring home a baler once. We came around a narrow curved road that fronted a lake. I looked in the mirror, and he had knocked out several mailboxes. Actually, all that I could see.....
 
I pulled a forage harvester home through a river side community a few years ago. The only bridge through town had concrete dividers in place which I was unaware of until I got there (nothing popped up on DOT activity ahead of time via the internet). The chopper must have cleared the dividers by a few millimeters collectively. I was sure she was going to wedge and had no turnoff once I spotted the dividers about a mile back. I just envisioned mad drivers in back of me until the cops got there but I squeaked through.
 
I bought a chopper and baler in Iowa, went down and hooked the baler behind the chopper and pulled them home, 300 miles. Just took some spares and a jack, used one spare. Stayed on 4 lane non freeway roads when I could. The bearings on farm machinery are as good or better than trailer bearings.
 
I would hate to try and count how many pieces of equipment I have pulled home over 100 miles. Some at 300+ miles. Take a spare or two, pull dust covers and check wheel bearings. Repack if dry. Leave as soon as daylight hits. Drive easy and hold up your diaper. Always have a back up plan if trouble comes. Most times it means hunting up a farmer to park it in his drive until you fix what ever problem comes up. How can you have stories to tell when you get old unless you step outside of your comfort zone. Al
 
I just bought an Oliver 73h two row picker this week for extra parts. It 150+ miles from home. I plan on pulling it home. Not even a second thought. Just do it. Al
 
Then why did you not say 140 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People say an hour away WITHOUT DEFINE GRAVEL ROAD, DIRT ROAD inter State TWO LANE. WHAT ABOUT TIME OF DAY. SCHOOL BUSS ROUTE AT 7 TO 8 AM JUST MAY TAKE A LOT LONGER. Some folks drive much different speeds. What about ice and or snow, possibly heavy rain. A you may notice that is a pet peeve. About any school education should indicate that on land time in NOT a factor of distance.
 

Farmallboy, having been on here for ten years you certainly should know better than to ask the YTDOT for information like this. Almost all the information is heresay, most of the rest is just what someone got away with without killing someone or doing jail time. Call your state DOT, this is what they are they for. They told me to get an over-width permit, and gave it to me over the 'phone, and told me to take it on the interstate. Hopefully common sense tells you to be sure that tires and bearings are good.
 
You forgot the part about owning his own house
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If it has implement tires on it they are only rated to 25MPH and minimum allowed on interstate is 45. I live in Ohio and I know I coild find ways to towe it without hitting any interstate or 4 lane. Also signs up that say NO FARM EQUIPMENT ALLOWED.
 
There is NO PLACE in state of Ohio you could try to pull it on interstate without ending up in jail.
 
Man, I got stories! Lol. My older brother Don was the leader on the best "we pulled it home" stories.
 
I always try to figure how much it'd cost if things go bad,flat tire/bad bearing on a Sat afternoon,getting dark before getting home this time of year from an auction that sort of thing,I do carry a set of magnetic lights in the truck for just the very thing you're thinking of doing.But 12ft wide for a good distance no way this day and time the way people drive.
 
Yeah, I guess I should know better than to provoke the YT DOT. lol. Hopefully I can find something local. If not it?ll have to go on the trailer for my sanity... Anyone know the length and approximate weight of a 12? IH 45 cultivator?
 
In Indiana you can't pull farm equipment on Interstates but you can haul it on a trailer with permits if
needed.
 
I bought a MF 760 combine with a 24' header and drove it from Waxahachie, TX. about 80 miles to my farm with the header intact. Took most of the day but taking the back roads around Dallas worked out ok. My youngest son was supposed to be my front runner but he had his mind on girls or something and wasn't much help....especially crossing a one lane bridge over the Trinity River S. of Dallas. Pulled my JD 530 round baler home about 65 miles at about 10 mph with my PU.....short tongue it wanted to crab back and forth any faster. That's the rough ones I remember.
 
Call the local DOT??? LOL,LOL.LOL. Why not just call them, the IRS, and the animal welfare people all at once! Why call someone who will now look for you so they can mess with you. Its like crossing weigh scales you don't have to just to wave high. Always try to pick your battles. Did you ask your girl friends Dad if you could sleep with his daughter after the dance? Al
 
Guys, cross chain a piece of equipment that wants to whip around and you can pull it at 70 mph all day long and it won't whip around. Learned this from Uncle Frank who owned a farm salvage lot.
 
That picker does like to wip around, The piviots for the hitch are not that tight. At least on the one I had.
 
(quoted from post at 08:18:45 03/02/19) Guys, cross chain a piece of equipment that wants to whip around and you can pull it at 70 mph all day long and it won't whip around. Learned this from Uncle Frank who owned a farm salvage lot.
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Yes. And letting some air out of the tires will keep it from bouncing too much.
 
(quoted from post at 08:16:58 03/02/19) Call the local DOT??? LOL,LOL.LOL. Why not just call them, the IRS, and the animal welfare people all at once! Why call someone who will now look for you so they can mess with you. Its like crossing weigh scales you don't have to just to wave high. Always try to pick your battles. Did you ask your girl friends Dad if you could sleep with his daughter after the dance? Al
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Al Baker, try reading my post again maybe you will see all of it and if you read it slowly enough perhaps you can even understand it, LOL. If any of you YTDOT officers were to actually check the regs you would find out that once you unhook the farm implement from the tractor and hook it behind the pick-up truck it is no longer a farm implement it is a TRAILER. THEN, provided that you have the appropriate lights, safety chains, tires, etc. and you abide by all laws such as minimum speed, and get your over width permit, you will be told as I was by the DOT to take the interstate. That is where they want you. I have pulled an IH 990 9 ft mower conditioner, an MF 224 baler and a ten foot NewHolland discbine for over well over 100 miles on the interstates here in NH and also Vermont being passed by state police and REAL DOT in the process. Over width loads, you may notice, are rarely on secondary roads, they travel on the roads that are built for them. Sure there are signs here in NH at the interstate entry ramps, stating no farm equipment. Think how big the signs would have to be to have the whole Motor Carrier Safety Act at every entry ramp for the drivers who can't seem to find their way to call for the correct information. Another fine example here of YTDOT living up to its fine reputation for passing out false information to the unsuspecting, blindly trusting, occasional hauler.
 
In Virginia farm equipment is never considered a trailer,its a piece of farm equipment.As far as pulling it on an Interstate not supposed to do it.Would the cops stop a farmer pulling
equipment? Depends on the cop. BUT if there is an accident and especially if someone gets hurt and the tires on the farm implement says not to be run over 25 MPH I'll guarantee you it won't
be DOT you have to worry about it'll be the sue happy lawyers going after everything you own.
 
(quoted from post at 10:45:55 03/03/19) In Virginia farm equipment is never considered a trailer,its a piece of farm equipment.As far as pulling it on an Interstate not supposed to do it.Would the cops stop a farmer pulling
equipment? Depends on the cop. BUT if there is an accident and especially if someone gets hurt and the tires on the farm implement says not to be run over 25 MPH I'll guarantee you it won't
be DOT you have to worry about it'll be the sue happy lawyers going after everything you own.
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Traditional farmer, you may want to read my post again and you may understand it. If a cop really thinks that something is really illegal he will probably call for DOT help, this has happened to me. The DOT officer found nothing wrong with my equipment. It was just one of those things that the cop thought "has to be illegal" same as the YTDOT, as opposed to the actual law. As I said in my post that the driver is responsible for his tires, the same as everything else. And as I said also, The state DOT told me to stay off the back roads and on the interstate, just as VADOT would tell you if you asked. After all, the various state DOTs are charged with maintaining public safety.
 
How long is it? Alot of the time you can remove the tongue and put it on a trailer cross ways. Sorry if this was already mentioned. I did not read every post thoroughly.
 
VDOT is not going to tell anyone to pull farm equipment on the Interstate considering the Max legal speed for all farm use equipment in VA is 45 MPH.And there is a Big sign as you come onto
the interstate that states no farm equipment allowed.
 
(quoted from post at 17:22:42 03/03/19) VDOT is not going to tell anyone to pull farm equipment on the Interstate considering the Max legal speed for all farm use equipment in VA is 45 MPH.And there is a Big sign as you come onto
the interstate that states no farm equipment allowed.
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As I told you in my first post here in NH they have those same big signs saying no farm equipment allowed yet when I called, yes I was surprised to find that that was where they wanted me. Just a matter of safety and enforcement of real actual laws instead of YTDOT laws. I know you don't dare call.
 
You also stated that farm equipment was considered a trailer once hooked to a truck so how do you get past the requirement that all trailers over 3,000 gross have brakes on them? You put brakes on your farm equipment? I know a couple state troopers I'll ask them what they would do if they came up behind someone pulling a baler on the Interstate at 45 MPH since the Max any piece of farm equipment can be pulled is 45 MPH or farm truck can be run for that matter.
 
(quoted from post at 05:28:30 03/04/19) You also stated that farm equipment was considered a trailer once hooked to a truck so how do you get past the requirement that all trailers over 3,000 gross have brakes on them? You put brakes on your farm equipment? I know a couple state troopers I'll ask them what they would do if they came up behind someone pulling a baler on the Interstate at 45 MPH since the Max any piece of farm equipment can be pulled is 45 MPH or farm truck can be run for that matter.
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What I see in the regs is that the the test for brakes is performance based like all the rest of the regs. It says in the regs that the truck must be able to stop the trailer/implement. This of course comes into play in the case of an accident which takes you back to doing it right as opposed to the YTDOT method of "what somebody else got away with. Another YTDOT method is instead of reading the regs is to "ask a state trooper I know". When a motor carrier question comes up in the site trooper's daily work the state trooper calls on the local DOT enforcement officer. You are probably correct that a "farm registered" truck cannot exceed 45 MPH, however we are talking a pick-up with a standard pick-up registration, adequate for the weight that is being hauled/towed.
 
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