Whats The Furthest You Have Towed Equipment?

Bill VA · Sep 17, 2021

I was talking to a guy the other day about towing vs hauling pull behind farm equipment. I remember years ago we towed a baler 110 miles to the farm. I jacked it up, pulled the hubs and serviced and inspected the bearings before departing. Talked to a used equipment jockey a few years ago and he said they bought equipment at retirement/liquidation sales and just aired up the tires and let it rip down the highway - at high speeds too!

Whats the furthest youve towed equipment and did you service/grease up everything or just hook up and go - LOL!

Just curious.

Thanks!
Bill

Tony in SD · Sep 17, 2021

Not me but my uncle custom combined in the day when there was only pull type combines. They loaded the tractor on the truck and pulled the combine from one end of the country to the other.

jon f mn · Sep 17, 2021

Went to Iowa near Omaha and picked up a baler, then headed north to Sioux City and picked up a two row chopper. Hooked the baler behind the chopper and pulled them home. That's about 400 miles each way. Took a couple spares and checked the bearings and took off. Had one flat on that trip. My brother and I pulled a 25' disc from Indiana home. We were on our way home from some worlds and saw an auction, so we stopped. He bought the disc so we had to get it home. Lol. Just hooked it to the pickup and left. When it got dark we bought two flashlights and covered the lenses with red tape and taped them to the disc. Made it home without issue.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 17, 2021

Pulled an AC Roto baler from Raleigh NC about 200 miles,pulled a NH round baler over 150 miles.Carried two spares,grease gun,jack and tools.Only problem was a flat on the AC baler.

showcrop · Sep 17, 2021

I towed a ten year old New Holland 411 discbine 175 miles. I took a spare tire and grease gun, and put lights on the back. I went mainly on the highway, and stopped every fifty miles or so to check tires and bearings.

db4600 · Sep 17, 2021

Back in 58 Pa and uncle Gene went to Enderlin Nd with the 52 Ford. Uncle Gene bought a JD 50 and Pa bought an A. They tied the 50 behind the A and roaded them to Albany some 180 miles.

rrlund · Sep 17, 2021

We've towed a lot of it from Archbold Ohio, 150 miles. Corn pickers, balers, pull type combines, choppers, wagons..... We had an offset hitch on the pickup to get things centered better.

tomstractorsandtoys · Sep 17, 2021

I pulled a John Deere 550 grain dryer 250 miles. I had a set of battery powered flashers on the back. Came through Ceder Rapids Iowa in evening rush hour and got home very late that night. I have pulled dozens of 60 and 70 ft grain augers 100-200 miles. On the grain augers I always replace the wheel bearings. A grain auger moves very few miles in there life time and the wheel bearings are always rusted up junk. I have also pulled a few silage wagons 150 miles or more. Tom

shaun wallace · Sep 17, 2021

Pulled a side tongue swather from Abilene Tx to Presido Tx.

Al Baker(pumpman) · Sep 17, 2021

Towed a manure spreader home from central In. to here in N. Mich. Trip was a little over 300 miles. Just softened the tires to help it ride smoother. Repacked the bearings before we left. Never drove over 40 mph. Pulled out at daybreak, was a long day. Pulled an other spreader home from central Mi. about 130 miles. Guess I love a good deal on a turd hauler. Al

SVcummins · Sep 17, 2021

550 miles with a 500 bushel grain cart right down the interstate.. had to have an oversized permit only travel during day light hours

SVcummins · Sep 17, 2021

NY 986 · Sep 17, 2021

About 80 miles one way with a NH 790 forage harvester. Got home as daylight had pretty well faded for the day. That was enough for a route that had mostly non-farm traffic that was not paying any attention to a farm machine until they were right on top of me distance wise.

redforlife · Sep 17, 2021

Drove a 9500 John Deer combine 60 miles one time. Not for myself, but someone I worked for. And that was not after they purchased it, but rather after it got out of the repair shop. It just happened to need to go to the furthest place that they farmed after it got out of the shop.

Brent Zappe · Sep 17, 2021

I can say the word Tractor shows. I have towed tractors on my car trailer to tractor shows up to 300 miles one way. There again it is not that hard to do because with the right trailer and the right stuff it makes it simple. To go to Tulare tractor show I have to go around the High Sierras. some times that is 300 miles from my home. I find that a low car trailer works great because it keeps my center gravity strong and in high winds condition it does not want to be affected by it. Some time this trip will be 600 miles round trip.

big jt · Sep 17, 2021

Planters in my case.

Bought a 500 cyclo at auction about 40 miles north of me and then took off on a Saturday with the tractor to get it. I knew the roads so could stay off state highways, only bad thing was I was on the mail route on the way home and had to dodge mail boxes.

Next one was Planter trade 70 miles east. Going over was uneventful and the new to me Deere was a fixer upper. Only warranty I asked of the salesman was that the wheel bearings be ready to make the trip. You guessed it stopped 30 miles down the road and checked bearings gone on one wheel and a second was going also with RUST dumping out. Days before cellphones and no towns so I soldiered on. Told the salesman when I got home he owed me two new hubs and bearings, he said I should have called, we settled somewhere in the middle.

Last one is the Kinze I am now using. Dealer bought no trade from a bigtime Kinze dealer. Dealer delivered this one with a medium duty truck, delivery guy said I was owed a tire as he had one blow on the way and I could pick it up when I picked up the parts I was coming to get later. That was a good experience.

jt

pms · Sep 17, 2021

Pulled a 1010 Hesston mower conditioner about sixty miles behind pickup.Did the same thing with a NH stackwagon.Best done early on a Sunday morning.Did around fifty on the freeway.
Paul

BarnyardEngineering · Sep 17, 2021

I towed one of those basic little stone pickers over 50 miles. Just hooked it to my truck slapped some magnetic lights on it and hit the road.

Didn't realize how bad the tires were until I got home. Missing pieces of tread.

I went loaded for bear, blocking, jacks, big old pry bar... Figured that tongue weighed a ton. Set up cribbing and jacked it up to hitch to the truck, carefully backed in to get it hitched up.

Joke was on me. The thing has almost ZERO tongue weight. My 10 year old nephew picked it up.

the tractor vet · Sep 17, 2021

Had a Jockey friend that bought a nice 273 New Holland baler at Tri Greens auction and was going to tow it the 168 miles home . we told him that we could put it on one of our loads and HAUL it and we would have it at his place on Friday . Nope not good enough he wanted it home NOW . Well that evening my buddy and i loaded up what he and i had gathered up on his semi and like always i got stuck with the chore of driving it we left Green's and went up to Plain City had supper and on up to U S 36 over to I 71 and North bound , about ten twelve miles up I 71 off in the middle just before and over pass there was Corky's baler missing the left tire wheel and axle . You could see in the pavement where it came off as he must have been in the left lane flyen and the only place he could go was the middle . When Donny and i went to Stilesville the next week it was still there , the next week we went to Rusty's sale and it was still there . Sometime between Rusty's sale and the next Stilesville sale Corky fixed it and got it out of there.

paul · Sep 17, 2021

Ive done the 100-120 mile range quite a few times. Couple combines and a tractor I think I was closer to 140 miles driving the tractor home. Wagons, corn picker, field cultivator all around 100 miles.

Paul

JK-NY · Sep 17, 2021

I have towed or trailered in just about everything I have here myself. Farthest towed implement would probably be a hay wagon about 40-45 miles bought at an auction , a lot of stuff 25-35 miles or less.

RAW in · Sep 17, 2021

When I worked for an IH dealer in 84 I towed a 25' disc from another dealer 200 miles, with a 1 ton GMC.

chuck from neb · Sep 17, 2021

Pulled 48 row 20 inch jd planter 280 miles behind a tractor 7 years ago from Northern South Dakota to nebraska

caterpillar guy · Sep 17, 2021

Drove combine about 50-60 miles to get it home when bought and back for service on it then back home again. This was over 10 years apart. Pulled a Mulch finisher home about 50 miles with 3/4 ton pickup folded it was still about 12 wide. Brother pulled a 60 foot auger home about 60-80 miles. We just hooked and went.

ohiodick · Sep 17, 2021

had to be corcky staler.

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