KYTurkey
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This is probably a dumb series of questions...but here we go. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I've trailered a tractor or two from time to time, but they've always either been someone else's or rentals. In all cases, they've been on the big expensive all-metal haulers that have handy eyeholes for chains, load binders, etc. The dealer delivered my tractor on a flatbed car hauler that had a slot down the middle for similar binding. It was chained across the front bumper and over the rear axle, as I recall.
So, I went looking at trailers this weekend for hauling my new tractor. I saw a lot of trailers that were plenty big & rated weight-wise for my tractor, but they were all of the "utility" type that just have a flat bed and stake pockets (or low rails) on the sides. No obvious places to tie down, except for one that had a low rail mounted in front, as well. There was nothing in the rear on any of them. I'll either have to cut out some of the flooring to find a place below to tie to, or try to find some way of using those stake pockets.
How do you guys trailer your tractors? My TC24 doesn't seem to have obvious facilities for doing this, other than the bumper and axles. Is that the way to do it, or am I making this too hard? The other stuff I've hauled has always been tied down really tightly with binders and chains, and the thought of having the tractor rolling around behind me gives me the willies (even if it is a "compact tractor"). /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
So, I went looking at trailers this weekend for hauling my new tractor. I saw a lot of trailers that were plenty big & rated weight-wise for my tractor, but they were all of the "utility" type that just have a flat bed and stake pockets (or low rails) on the sides. No obvious places to tie down, except for one that had a low rail mounted in front, as well. There was nothing in the rear on any of them. I'll either have to cut out some of the flooring to find a place below to tie to, or try to find some way of using those stake pockets.
How do you guys trailer your tractors? My TC24 doesn't seem to have obvious facilities for doing this, other than the bumper and axles. Is that the way to do it, or am I making this too hard? The other stuff I've hauled has always been tied down really tightly with binders and chains, and the thought of having the tractor rolling around behind me gives me the willies (even if it is a "compact tractor"). /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif