Tractor hauling with trailer advice

[Anonymous-0]

Looking for advice on hauling my tractor and few implements from my farm. I have an opportunity to hay some more land, only about 25 acres, about 15-miles from my place this year. I don't have a trailer. My tractor is a MF 175 with liquid tires(about 7,000 lbs + or - ). Never hauled a tractor before. I can easily tow my square baler with my truck to this land, but want to ask you all if hauling a tractor on a trailer is a real pain in the a** when your working all by yourself. I'd probably leave a spare tedder at the other land, but would prefer to take the PTO-side delivery rake with tractor on trailer. Any advice on the type of trailer would be helpful too. Thanks boys.

 

[rustyfarmall]

15 miles isn't that far. Forget the trailer. Just drive the tractor.

 

[dej(Jed)]

Trailering a tractor is no big deal. You are going to need a 9000 lb trailer though. You could haul it on a 7000 lb trailer, but you will be over on the weight. To pull a side delivery on behind the tractor might be a problem as the length probably won't work on most trailers. You will have to balance the pull down on the hitch, so that might eat up a lot fo bed space.

 

[Ken Macfarlane]

I was gonna say drive too but maybe there is a freeway or something. 25 acres of hay won't pay for a new or used trailer around here.

 

[Nebraska Cowman]

I wouldn't mess with it. by the time you got loaded and chained dow you'd be half way there if you just drove.

 

[balatonm]

I'd go with a goose neck flat bed if your going to haul it.

 

[Leland]

15 miles only road it that tractor should make it that far in an hour ,you would waste that much time or more loading and unloading it and messing with chains .

 

[Leland]

and do what we done just hook the rake behind the baler and go ,I used to drive a 165 all over the place so I know the 175 will make it

 

[Anonymous-0]

My Dad always said if you have to go across the road to put up hay it's too far. I now know what he ment. Hauling isn't bad if you have the right truck and trailer. But at that distance I would road it. The disadvantage is your truck and tools are not where you are.

 

[Don-Wi]

I'm gonna say just drive it as well. A 175 shoukld be able to keep up with our 165 and 285, and they go somewhere around 20-25 MPH. By the time you'd get it loaded and chained down, you'd be more than 1/2 way there already.

Still farther than I'd want to drive on a regular basis, but if the hay was good, we'd be willing to road it a little bit.

Donovan from Wisconsin

 

[Larry59]

Now I would just drive it to there. Might be a nice day. Sun shinning and a smile on face. Drink of some kind and a good bill hat.
Drive down the road like I was on vacation. Watching the road edges and around. Never know what you might find like that. Maybe some cash would be fine. Are just maybe a real nice day. Take a lunch sack with you to.

 

[kyplowboy]

I know differnt strokes for diffrent folks here,,,

I have one hay field I cut that is about 8 acres, 10 miles away. The best way I have found to get the job done is put a few tools and a cooler on the tractor and go cut it. When I am about done I call some one or get some one close to take me home. Pull the rake over with the truck a few days later. (yes this is where a pull type rake comes in handy) Rake it and take truck and rake home. Come back the next day with the baler behind the truck and hay forks on the back. Bale and move the hay out of the field, take tractor and disk mower home, and get some one to take me back for the truck, baler, and forks. I can't haul every thing at once and never felt like haul'n a tractor was that much of a time and tire save'n thing. If you are going to haul your stuff be sure to have every thing chained down tight.

Good luck.

Dave

 

[Steve in MN]

I would just drive it. 15 miles isn't bad for a tractor. A gooseneck trailer might come in real handy to get that hay home though. AND if you have a trailer just think of all the old tractors you can go after. LOL

 

[Bob Kerr]

I would just drive it there. Now if you had a pull type rake you would have it made since you can hook it up behind the baler and take both at once behind the truck since you would have the mower on the tractor, or drive the mower back and hook up the rake and baler when it is dry. My old baler had a rear tounge to pull a wagon and come to think of it there is a tounge on the back of the wagon, but it would just as easily pull a rake. 15 miles really isn"t that far. I drove 40 one way 4 times last year on an M. I just "made an afternoon out of it." If you hook up a hay train better check to see how well it all corners before getting out on the roads. I do most every thing myself so the more you can get there in one trip the better, BUT Becareful to not get "in a pickle" and need help when it isn"t around.

 

[rednekelmo]

one problem with trailering equipment noone mentioned is if any of the equipment sticks more than 3"over the trailer then you need oversize load permits if you doit with out and somone hit you you'll need very good insurance so i'll go with the majority and say just drive it

 

[Anonymous-0]

Might be better to spend money on some fertilizer on the home fields.

 

[495man]

Drive it.....be an hours drive tops, agree by the time you spent loading chaining and unloading you'd be there and not have to own a trailer.