Posted by Brian Dan on February 05, 2012 at 03:32:42 from (71.10.108.51):
In Reply to: Combine Hauling posted by DeltaRed on February 01, 2012 at 21:41:36:
Back in the day when I went south on the “Custom Harvest” 1969-1970 I saw a lot of John Deere Combines pulled or towed backwards. The custom cutters made a A frame hitch for the machine. The hitch was mounted to the front of the machine by the front drive axle on each side and ran to the rear of the machine under the rear axle. I believe they would use a channel iron. The channel iron would stick out past the rear axle maybe six feet. The rear of the machine would be jacked up and hooked to a truck. Either a pintle hitch or ball hitch was used. Some took off the rear tires and rims. I believe the front drive coupling on each side axle were disconnected. These machines were pulled up to fifty miles per hour with no problems and maybe faster. The head was put into the truck box. I saw machines towed from Canada to Texas and back. Brian
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