Transporting a bush hog

[ironpen]

I need to move a bush hog about 30 miles. It is 110 inches wide and weighs 1600 pounds. Any ideas on how I could get it moved?? I am really stumped!! It does not have pneumatic tires. It has a hydraulic lift on the back tires...i.e. it is not a three point attachment.

 

[4570Man]

Is there anyway you could load it on a trailer. If you could get two tractors you could lift it up then back under it.

 

[TripleR]

Does it have the rubber composite tires or foamed aircraft tires, ours has the aircraft type and was towed behind a pickup about sixty miles when it was delivered.

 

[Hill Farmer]

Set it on a trailer with a front end loader, boom it down and take off.
I'm guessing it's wider than it is long, turn it sideways on the trailer. Or just pull it with the tractor, shouldn't take more than 2-3 hours.

 

[dusty3030]

Rollback wrecker. Pull it up side ways with the winch, remove tongue and pto shaft.

 

[ironpen]

I has rubber composite tires. My front end loader MIGHT pick it up.....but there is no FEL Where it's going. If I used the rollback wrecker...how would I get it off at the destination??

 

[dusty3030]

I has rubber composite tires. My front end loader MIGHT pick it up.....but there is no FEL Where it's going. If I used the rollback wrecker...how would I get it off at the destination??

Gravity, winch has power out too. Raise bed up and lower it back down with the winch.

 

[kebo]

Gravity, winch has power out too. Raise bed up and lower it back down with the winch.

Or, do like I've done before... get a tow strap (or chain) and attach one end to a tree, the other end to the bush hog and have the driver drive forward slowly as the bush hog slides off the flat bed wrecker (with the bed angled down, of course, and just barely above the ground).

 

[TripleR]

Compare the price of new tires vs roll back then go from there.

 

[Turbys_1700]

Personally I would hire a roll back. I just bought a 4610 Ford tractor and had it hauled 120 miles round trip for around $1.50 per mile. That's cheaper than me getting a trailer to haul it plus the liability, possibility of break down, ETC...In my mind it is not worth it. I did haul a 6' bush hog on a loaned trailer 320 miles round trip. Got along fine but you never know when some nut is gonna cut off in front of you or the possibility of a blown tire. It happens.