Re: hauling a tractor

Posted by ScottyNY on July 30, 2002 at 14:58:43 from (151.202.185.143):

In Reply to: hauling a tractor posted by Roger Rachow on July 30, 2002 at 12:09:08:

Roger, I second Pete's motion. Tiny's post down below is all good,sound advice. Heed it. As far as the trailer, I don't know what your tractor weighs, but I'd be careful about a rented car carrier. They tend to have lightweight decks with heavier tracks only where car treads might be. The tiedown points may also not be adequate. In my own order of preference, I'd take a tilt up flatbed with a beaver tail, a non-tilting beavertail, then a plain flatbed. Check out the outside clearance of your rear tires. You may need a deckover, beavertail or not, to get the tractor far enough onto the trailer to get the balance and tongue weight right. If your trailer will require ramps (about anything but a tilt beavertail will) I'd make two more emphatic points -- 1) arrange for a third ramp in the center to get your nose gear off and on. Don't be messing around trying to run the front wheels up an outside ramp and then turn to get the rears lined up with the ramps, and 2) if the ramps don't have supports under them that run to the ground at the rear edge of the trailer, get blocks or jacks under the rear corners of the trailer so it doesn't lift the tongue and the rear of your truck off the ground. That second is never a bad idea anyway--a rollaway is an awful thing to watch, never mind to be riding along on. Be careful and have fun! Scotty

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