Steel Wheel ?

[Jamason]

Hey everyone i have a question for all of you. Ok We just bought a threshing machine and its all on steel wheels. my friend thinks that we should pull it home on blacktop which i know would be hard on it. I am just wondering if it is ok to pull it on blacktop or will it cause damage to the wheels. We have the option to take gravel home but he insists we take blacktop. So help me out here and convince him that blacktop will be bad and that we should take gavel.
Thanks for your time
Jamason

 

[old]

In a lot of places its not legal to pull some or drive something with steels wheels on pavement. Take the gravel road and be safe. I have no idea what a ticket for doing that would cost but it would probably be very high
Hobby farm

 

[LenND]

I agree with OLD some states it is against the law to go on pavement with steel wheels. Besides the gravel road will be easier on the machine because would have more shock absorbtion than hard pavement.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Unless the steel wheels have lugs on them, you probabaly will not hurt anything pulling it in asphalt. Most threshing machine wheels are flat with no lugs.

 

[Maine Fordson]

I, too, agree with Rich: Take the gravel road and be safe.

The best option, as I see it, would be to trailer it home. Won't it fit on a standard 16-foot trailer? Tie it down with some ratchet straps and travel with peace of mind, knowing that you're within the constraints of the law, transporting your new treasure safely, and doing no harm whatsoever to this old veteran that has survived up to the present day.

Good luck, and be sure to post some pics of your acquisition when you get it safely home.

-- Maine Fordson.

 

[tompepper]

I once hauled an old hay loader home which was on steel.It was about a mile on a hard secondary road.there was no wheels left.HAUL IT !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ford 312]

Years ago, Dad and I pulled a corn shredder about 16 miles down a blacktop road. Wheels didn't seem to be any worse for the wear. A corn shredder would be about the same size as a threshing machine. However the laws wouldn't have been nearly as strict then as they are now.

 

[LenND]

Which ever way you go before you start be sure to pack those wheels with plenty of grease and check them often. They were not made to go very fast or very far,

 

[leo ackey jr]

haul it, then you are safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[John B.]

Our annually show is only a mile from my house and I pulled my two bottom steel wheel plow there and back one year. I won't do it again.

You never said how far you have to go with your new treasure, how far is it??

Remember those machines were meant to be pulled with horses, steam engines or tractors that never had a road gear yet.

If you don't have a trailer find someone and hire them to do it. You may save your self a lot of headaches. Sometimes the easiest and cheapest way isn't the best way. Just think if someone ran into it when you're pulling it home. What did you save then? Good luck!

 

[John B.]

Our annually show is only a mile from my house and I pulled my two bottom steel wheel plow there and back one year. I won't do it again.

You never said how far you have to go with your new treasure, how far is it??

Remember those machines were meant to be pulled with horses, steam engines or tractors that never had a road gear yet.

If you don't have a trailer find someone and hire them to do it. You may save your self a lot of headaches. Sometimes the easiest and cheapest way isn't the best way. Just think if someone ran into it when you're pulling it home. What did you save then? Good luck!

 

[Jamason]

we have to go about 10 miles the gravel road never has anyone traveling on it. And everyone around here that i know is to stuck up to trailer it for me. I wish i did have a trailer but we don't so we have to pull it.

 

[OhioD14]

What about putting some old tires over the steel wheels, that way the steel runs inside the rubber tire?

 

[Jamason]

OMG that's a great idea there dude I will have to search around and see if i have some THAT IS FREAKING BRILLIANT. THANKS!

 

[Loren in MN]

Four years ago I pulled a McCormick Deering thresher home almost 20 miles. I drove my D-17 Allis to the farm where the thresher was at as I needed the tractor to pull the machine out of the pasture. Took two weeks to dig it out of the brush, trees and out of the dirt. Then put a triangle on the back and towed it home. Had the wife follow in a car just in case of trouble. Taking mostly tar back roads at tractor speeds was no problem at all. Oiled up the wheels real good and stopped several times to check on everything. Took about 2 1/2 hours to tow home. Have fun!

 

[Jamason]

We have a ford 3000 that we are going to use. By tractor speeds are u talking about road gear or low gear and was this on steel?

 

[RodinNS]

I think if it has lug wheels then there is no good solution but hauling it. The vibration will shake it to pieces on either blacktop or gravel.
If it's got smooth wheels I think it would do less harm towing it on blacktop than on gravel. At least around here it would with the pothole paradise we live in. If the asphalt is good it'll roll along on that without too much bouncing so it shouldn't hurt it.
I think I'd widen my search for someone to haul it though. It's never much fun taking steel on the road.

Rod

 

[Ole Shovel]

How did you think they moved them years ago? Tractors didn't go that fast back then either remember. Grease the wheels and make you got everything on it tied down to not fall off or swing and pull it home slow. Check the hitch tounge too don't want to lose it in a ditch. If it's not safe pay or trade to haul it. It's illegal most everywhere to be pulling something on steel wheels lugs or not on blacktop highway maintained federal, state or county.

 

[John B.]

They moved them short distances from one farm to the next and on down the line with less idiots on the road than now days.

 

[Crem]

You are right on greasing the wheels. Years ago my dad sold a threshing machine to a junk dealer. The guy pulled it with his truck and six miles down the road both back wheels fell off because they wore through the axle.