How far would you drive a tractor home vs a trailer?

[Floopy]

I'm looking at a MF135 that is about 10 miles away. I doubt anyone would trailer a tractor that was a mile away. What is the distance you'd feel comfortable driving one home?

 

[Sean Feeney]

side roads nice easy ride

 

[rrlund]

Oh for crying out loud. We go on seven or eight 25-55 mile tractor drives with antique tractors every year. We'll drive them 20 miles to where the drive starts. I drove one home 150 miles from an auction when I was 14. Lots of folks drive more than ten miles to land that they farm. Ten miles is 20 rounds in a quarter mile long field.

 

[Not db4600]

I'm looking at a MF135 that is about 10 miles away. I doubt anyone would trailer a tractor that was a mile away. What is the distance you'd feel comfortable driving one home?

In ‘58 gave up the blacksmith shop and bought the farm. He and uncle Gene attended an auction in Enderlin ND and drive there with the ‘52 Ford. Gene bought a JD 60 and Pa bought a JD A. The A tossed faster than the 60 so the 60 was chained up and they took turns driving the A and the Ford truck back to Holdingford MN some 190 miles.

10 miles is just a start to a tractor drive.

 

[trackrat]

Depends on the size of the tractor, weather, location, we have heavy trailers, so we usually haul but I have driven a combine more than 100 miles on occasion, by the way that was thru Dallas

 

[maqbill]

Drove the r 90 miles once and an a 120, not even a hard day in the field.

 

[Ultradog MN]

I'm looking at a MF135 that is about 10 miles away. I doubt anyone would trailer a tractor that was a mile away. What is the distance you'd feel comfortable driving one home?

Does it run

 

[maqbill]

Depends on the size of the tractor, weather, location, we have heavy trailers, so we usually haul but I have driven a combine more than 100 miles on occasion, by the way that was thru Dallas

That would have been a hoot!

 

[Ray,IN]

Not an unusual drive, but be sure to wear eye protection, a bug in an eye hurts like the devil. We used to pull a wagon loaded with 100-110 bales of hay that far with our MF135, although we never drove at top speed towing a loaded farm wagon with no brakes.

 

[trackrat]

That would have been a hoot!

yeah it was

 

[495man]

10 miles? Drive it. 40 minutes at 15 miles an hour average speed.

135 should do better than that in high gear.

I've bought hay 10 miles away and made multiple trips with loader tractor and bale wagon.

 

[Floopy]

Does it run

At the moment, sure lol

 

[Floopy]

I was more concerned about the tires lol. I've drove my mf35 on the road once maybe 500'. I didn't figure it'd be a problem.

 

[Jim.ME]

I was more concerned about the tires lol. I've drove my mf35 on the road once maybe 500'. I didn't figure it'd be a problem.

I think most here would not be concerned about roading a tractor for 10 miles, or more. We road about that far between farms, pulling equipment and, like Ray,IN, have done such with a MF 135 and other tractors.

If you had a tire failure in maybe 500 feet on the road, I have to believe it needed tires before you decided to put it on the road. We can't see this tractor, don't know how it runs, or its tire condition. You can see it, you have to decide if the tractor you are looking at, and the tires on it, are fit to road about 10 miles, we can't answer that part of this for you.

 

[Northvale PA]

I’ve driven a tractor up to 25 miles a number of times. I towed a NH Haybine about 25 miles and one axle broke about 1 mile from home. These days I make the deal including delivery, up front, if available. 10 miles is easy but have a friend follow with some tools. 2 weeks ago I towed a Tedder 20 miles, early Sunday morning. Nice and easy.

 

[moresmoke]

I bought a tractor at an auction and drove it 50 miles home pulling a potato harvester for a neighbor. Then used that tractor to farm across 30 miles from furthest fields.

A few years later I moved and didn’t have a way to haul that same tractor, so drove it 130 miles in the middle of winter. Other than one ice covered hill it was a nice ride.

Biggest deciding factor for me would be distance and road gear speed. Something that struggles to hit 10 mph I’m not going to take too far.

 

[m16ty]

I've driven plenty 10 miles. Any farther than that I've always hauled, but that's because I have a trailer. If I had to pay somebody to haul I'd drive a lot farther.

 

[m16ty]

I bought a tractor at an auction and drove it 50 miles home pulling a potato harvester for a neighbor. Then used that tractor to farm across 30 miles from furthest fields.

A few years later I moved and didn’t have a way to haul that same tractor, so drove it 130 miles in the middle of winter. Other than one ice covered hill it was a nice ride.

Biggest deciding factor for me would be distance and road gear speed. Something that struggles to hit 10 mph I’m not going to take too far.

A MF 135 has a respectable road gear.

 

[moresmoke]

A MF 135 has a respectable road gear.

I was more referring to the unstyled JD B my grandfather had. It topped out about 5 mph. The farthest it went on the road was the annual parade through town. But it was real easy to haul.

 

[cjunrau]

I look at it in hours not distance. If I drive on the field 10 hours a day, the tractor, swather,etc should have the same troubles if I drive that length of time on the road. I drive a swather every year 6-10 miles and it takes 20 minutes to go a mile. In the field I drive the same speed swathing. 2 hours in the field doesn’t feel long at all so I just think differently while on the road and it makes the ride bare able