New tractor, old tractor and a trailer...what could go wrong

CBBC · Dec 10, 2019

Good thing it was chained down.

jeffcat · Dec 10, 2019

Well someday it will be a runner. Looks cool. Unload the old one and drive the trailer to Tractor supply as a tradein.

SETX · Dec 10, 2019

I'm more concerned with all that moss growing on the roof adding weight.....wonder of that will cave in as well!

paul · Dec 10, 2019

Roof appears to match the trailer.

Paul

kcm.MN · Dec 10, 2019

Is that a wood-framed trailer?!? :shock:

old · Dec 10, 2019

That one reminds me of the trailer they sold at the same auction I got my road roller at. The road roller is rated at 5-8 tons depending on how much water you put in the two rollers. They used the trailer to haul the roller and it was one of those car hauling trailers so it sort of got bent in the middle just a little bit from that 5 ton machine rollers where empty

Ozlander · Dec 10, 2019

Tighten that middle chain and it will be straight again. LOL

showcrop · Dec 10, 2019

It looks like moss on the fender which makes it look like it has not been used much for a few years and has been parked in a wet place. It reminds me of a trailer that I was going to give to a friend, but when I picked it up there wasn't much left underneath.

37chief · Dec 10, 2019

just air up the tire you'll fine. Stan

John in Mich · Dec 10, 2019

Unless there was additional load or planned load at the rear of the trailer, that tractor should have been directly over the two axles with a slight lead to the front for possitive tongue weight.
I will not pull a trailer that I don't know or didn't load.

Wheat47 · Dec 10, 2019

I wanna know what that old 4 x 4 tractor is!!

Deere Mark · Dec 10, 2019

Looks like the Massey-Harris GP 15/22 four wheel drive made from 1930 to 1936. Almost never seen with rear fenders.

caterpillar guy · Dec 10, 2019

Like Ozlander said just tighten the chain on the middle of the tractor and keep going.

CBBC · Dec 10, 2019

I believe it is a 1934 MH GP15/22. It?s been stored inside a neighbours barn for at least 30 years.... he had an auction and cleared out stuff he didn?t even know he had.

The other neighbour who bought hauled it home on the weekend. Yes that trailer is garbage. It was the only one empty that he had. Loading it further back would have been ok but the deck / frame would have separated completely. He pulled it a couple km along the back roads and fields.

He does tend to push things to the limit but that?s another story. The moss on the shed roof is really more of a feature than a failure. It?s sheeted with 3/4 plywood and the asphalt shingles and holding well after 15 years. If it starts to leak his brothers and builders / roofers and will take care of it.

I?m going to try to convince him to put the MH inside maybe even we can try to get it running.

I do think the trailer is headed to scrap ... I?m not going to repair that for him.

Blackhole49 · Dec 11, 2019

Adds credence to the old adage, "it's only flat on the bottom".

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