Outside Tire Width?

Deere Scotty · May 3, 2010

Have agreed to buy a JD 3055 with 18.4-38"s. Getting ready to haul it & will have to rent a trailer. I have measured some other larger JD"s set on 30" rows. With the tire squatting out at the bottom; Will the tires make it past trailer fenders, & if so; What is the narrowest distance between the fenders?

Measurements I have taken from a 4430, & a Case-IH 7220 are about 81, or 82 inches around the bottom. A lot of rental trailers are 79, & 80 inches with a few being 82". Its a 2 1/2 hour drive. A bit far to be gravely disappointed. Its tough to get an exact measurement just eyeballing, & Product literature, & Owners manual dont list width, or height specs, or give the narrowest transport information! I guess dealers dont want the average person hauling!

Scotty

Anonymous-0 · May 3, 2010

I would be much concerned about the weight of a tractor of this size. Most of the utility trailers of this type have about a 7000 capacity.

RodinNS · May 3, 2010

The general principal of what you're suggesting... putting a ~13000 # tractor on one of those damn little trailers is just a plain BAD idea.
Get a proper dual wheel, tandem axle trailer. Something you drag behind a tandem truck...

Rod

Ric Ks. · May 3, 2010

Please dont try to haul it on a bumper hitch. At least use a goose neck, tandem or triple axel. Check around there are farmers who will haul for reasonable amounts.

Anonymous-0 · May 3, 2010

Hire a hauler. (Towing/wrecker operations sometimes have heavy rollbacks or lowboys and will haul tractors fairly reasonably) Probably won't be much more than renting a trailer and you won't have to worry about fines, blow outs, ect.

I've got a 14,000GVWR "low deck" trailer that has fenders 81" between. I wouldn't dare haul a 13,000 tractor on it. (Got a 20,000GVWR gooseneck for that)

smallbaleboy · May 3, 2010

deal with this stuff quite often and find a hauler would be way better than a rental trailer idea,you need 102 trailer,then sometimes you hanging over

ericlb · May 3, 2010

i tend to agree, with a tractor that size or larger if your not already equiped to haul it, its far better and safer to pay somebody who is to haul it for you, this is beyond rental trailer capacity as a rule, besides trucking companies, you can ask for a price at gravel companies, they will have a beaver tail equipment trailer 20 ton or better and may even have a lowbed semi out near where the tractor is that could use a back haul on the way home , also a excavating company with a backhoe trailer can haul that too, that way its hauled by a experienced hauler with insurance and the proper equipment for the job

circus · May 3, 2010

Tractor Data states 8500 lbs. for the JD 3055.

onefarmer · May 3, 2010

If you have a day to spare, drive it home. I drove one from Toledo,OH to Lansing, Mi when I was 15. My father was following with the car. It was a 180 miles.

You could rent a car hauler and tow the truck/car back with the tractor.

RodinNS · May 3, 2010

That ~might~ and I say MIGHT be correct for a 2 wheel drive, open station, bare bones tractor without ballast. If it's MFWD, cab, loader, etc... then you can easily push that tractor over 14K with full ballast. Very easily...

Rod

paul · May 3, 2010

I know - friend wanted to borrow my car trailer to haul a 4020 he boyught. It's rated at 6000#, that includes the trailer. he just couldn't understand that it wouldn't work out well.... Wanted to help him, but not that badly.

Now brother in law wants me to haul 6500# of shingles.... Maybe - if I get better tires & put a few in the pickup. But that's a stretch....

--->Paul

Cas · May 3, 2010

If you are going to use a trailer that light,
drive it or hire it done.

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