Don't you hate it when you can't get it home?

There's an auction about 2 hours from me. The have a bunch of Oliver stuff including a 770 with a loader I'd be interested in.
Problem is, the tractor weighs too much for my trailer; I'm guessing closing in on 9000# with loaded tires and loader, and I have a 7000# trailer and a truck with 8000# towing. I had a MF202 on it and the axles were visibly bending (drove home reeeal slooowww..). I'm not buying bigger trailer, not worth it for the 1-2 times a year I use it. So I can't trailer it home.
Local tractor toter is $3/loaded mile and do it when he gets to it. Won't pick up a tractor that I can't guarantee won't start without a pull, without another loading fee. It would cost me more than I'm willing to pay to get it home.
Other option is driving it home, about 6 hours at road speed on a tractor that I have not checked over enough to confirm tires will take it or if there are other issues. Route crosses the highway and has to go thru a couple busy suburban areas. Simply not feasible for me to do.

Guess that's one way to limit the collection size. lol. Probably need to sell some anyways.
 
That's always a problem. That's too bad, sounds like you'd like to have that one. I know I have found exactly what I want and need, but it is too far to risk towing it behind a truck and ruining it or it breaking down, so have to settle for something less desirable but closer. Unless... you feel like having a big adventure!
 
Drop the loader, put it in the back of your pickup. Get a tow bar and tow it home if the tires are up to it. Where there's a will there's a way!

Ben
 
I doubt that 770 will weigh near 9,000,Another idea is to have a set of those 9 bolt rims with lightweight wheels and narrow tires with no fluid and change them out with the ones on the 770.Then
you can haul it might have to make two trips so you can buy a bunch of parts to make the 2nd trip with the wheels and tires worth your while(LOL)
 
Take truck and trailer to get tractor. Hook trailer to tractor and load truck onto trailer. Then drive home. If you have a problem you have a chase vehicle so you are not stranded to go for help.
 
Tractordata says it weighs 5500. Strip off the loader, set it on the trailer, take it home. Drag off trailer, go back for tractor. Lotsa miles, but seems doable.
 
Also go to the auction and ask around probably someone there with a truck and trailer that can get it at least part way home for you.I've hauled tractors and equipment and had others haul them for me that were headed in my direction.If you get it bought you can get the auctioneer to announce you need hauling good way to get something headed in your direction and meet
a new hauler.
 
Gotta put your thinking cap on,I was at an auction about 100 miles from home bought a pickup and a Farmall Cub ,trailer too short to haul both so I loaded the Cub into the back of the pickup and drove the pickup on the trailer got them both home no problem.
 
All good thoughts. I once put an Oliver 3 bottom plow on a trailer with nothing but a farmhand jack and 3 2x6's. That thing bent my cheap boom pole when I tried to lift it off. It was heavy enough that the 1355 (Oliver/Fiat) would wheelie with it while driving over small bumps.

But I am time constrained (working lots of hours and wife has broken shoulder so doing all the yard maintenance) having it towed would put it out of my price range. Unless, of course, it goes for $500 or so.

If the loader had quick connects and the rear tires were not fluid filled the two trip method would be the ticket.
 
I used to have that problem a lot it seems like when I had my 16-foot 7000 pound trailer. Then upgraded to a 20-foot 10000 pound trailer about 5 years ago. Probably the best thing I've done in a long time when I did that. A lady last Saturday was making fun of me when I loaded 40 Bales on that big trailer but like I told her it's always better to have too much trailer than not enough. I'm not helping with your dilemma any but just saying.
 
I wouldn't think twice about driving that tractor home. Take a quart oil along and first chance you go by air compressor air fronts up hard. 6 hours is nothing for a tractor to run on the road.
 
Sounds like you should not even bother going to the auction ? Stuff at auctions seems to sell higher than you can find elsewhere anyhow.
 
i wish i had room for big tractors now that im retired and crippled, but i dont, transport isnt a problem, i have a friend with a peterbilt and a 50 ton low bed trailer
 
When I started farming I had a tow bar on the pickup. Went to an auction, bought a tractor and corn planter. Hooked the planter to the truck, put the truck behind the tractor, and drove it to the new farm 30 miles away.
 
(quoted from post at 05:26:49 07/19/19) There's an auction about 2 hours from me. The have a bunch of Oliver stuff including a 770 with a loader I'd be interested in.
Problem is, the tractor weighs too much for my trailer; I'm guessing closing in on 9000# with loaded tires and loader, and I have a 7000# trailer and a truck with 8000# towing. I had a MF202 on it and the axles were visibly bending (drove home reeeal slooowww..). I'm not buying bigger trailer, not worth it for the 1-2 times a year I use it. So I can't trailer it home.
Local tractor toter is $3/loaded mile and do it when he gets to it. Won't pick up a tractor that I can't guarantee won't start without a pull, without another loading fee. It would cost me more than I'm willing to pay to get it home.
Other option is driving it home, about 6 hours at road speed on a tractor that I have not checked over enough to confirm tires will take it or if there are other issues. Route crosses the highway and has to go thru a couple busy suburban areas. Simply not feasible for me to do.

Guess that's one way to limit the collection size. lol. Probably need to sell some anyways.

Where are you? Someone on YT should have a heavy enough trailer to haul it no problem. I have two trailers, one is 7000 pound rated and a 12,000 pound rated. DOUG
 
SE Mi. Maybe Randy will buy something little and tote it for me!

More likely it will go for more than I can afford.
 
(quoted from post at 06:19:30 07/19/19) Take truck and trailer to get tractor. Hook trailer to tractor and load truck onto trailer. Then drive home. If you have a problem you have a chase vehicle so you are not stranded to go for help.

Best idea right here.
 

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