Transporting a flex fold jd planter

Reid1650 · Feb 12, 2011

How do you move these planters if you dont have your tractor or how do you get them down the road without a tractor? Is there a way?

NY 986 · Feb 12, 2011

Can you give us a specific scenario?

IaGary · Feb 12, 2011

Are you talking about a 3 pt mounted folding planter?

They do make a 3 pt caddy that you can pull behind a pickup. Lot of negative hitch weight though.

Or load it on a trailer.

If it is a wheel type planter that folds hook it to your pickup and go.

Gary

VicS · Feb 12, 2011

You have to back them on a trailer and haul them, for a 16-31 It will be a detach, trailer.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 12, 2011

If you are talking about a mounted planter like a 7100 or 7300 picking them up with a forklift or loader and setting on a trailer works but you need a big loader or forklift to do it. I have hauled them with the wings folded up but having the wings down works better if you haave the room. You will need something big to unload when get home. If it's a pull type planter a 3/4 ton or bigger (preferibly bigger) pickup will handle it if the tongue weight is not too much for the pickup and the distance you have to go is not too far. I delivered a Kinze 2210 8 row planter with my 08 Ford F-250 and I was glad I didn't have to go very far. An F-350 or 450 would have been better. A JD 7200 would be just a little lighter. Find out what the planter weighs and how much the tongue weight is.

Moline_guy · Feb 12, 2011

If it is a 3pt pull type, Dad pulled one home years ago with a 3/4 ton pickup. We made an angle iron frame back from the 5th wheel ball attached to irons resting on top of the step bumper. We pinned a quick hitch to the irons and ran a 3rd link from the quick hitch to the iron coming off the 5th wheel. Planter hitched into the quick hitch lower arms and down the road we went. Should have taken a picture of the set up but it worked well.

Reid1650 · Feb 13, 2011

Im talking about a jd 7000 flex fold planter not front fold. Front fold is just a regular pin type hitch but a little harder to find. The flex fold is hooked to the three point arms and I was wondering if there was a way to haul it down the road with a pick up. Thanks

JDseller · Feb 13, 2011

I have moved several two point hitch planter/mower conditioner by setting the hitch arms on the back of my flat bed truck. I then chain them to the gooseneck hitch ball and back to the rear bumper. Just watch and don"t get into a real side twist or you will have to loosen the chains.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 13, 2011

If you could find a Donahue trailer to use that would be the easiest. Put it on the trailer with the sellers tractor and hook on to it with yours to get it off when you get home. There were quite a few of those trailers around when the JD 7000 were being sold. Should be one around somewhere.

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