Local tractor hauling for private party sale

[EddieWalker]

Buy a bigger trailer and either keep it because you'll need it again, or sell it once you are done with it.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Yes some tow companies do these kinds of hauls all the time. Not all do though. When I did it for a living, the company I worked for did it. There were only 2 of us, out of about 30 that were set up to do it. Part of it is having the right truck, but most of it is having the right driver. Not all equipment can be tied down in exactly the same way, but it all must be properly tied down. This is too much math for some drivers, especially if all they know how to do is tow a car. But it's not a problem at all if you get a driver that knows what he's doing.

When I did it, equipment hauling was charged by the hour, and not by the mile. The clock started when the truck left the yard (or last drop off), and the clock didn't stop until the truck was back at the yard (or next pick up). There was a rate for light/small equipment, and a rate for large/heavy equipment. Yours would have qualified for "light/small" equipment.

U-haul *may* have a trailer that will work for you. It's been a long time since I used a U-haul car trailer, but seems to me theirs are not true full flat bed trailers, but only have channels for the tires of the vehicle to go up the bed (can't think of the correct term at the moment, not enough coffee). If this is the type of trailer U-haul offers you to use, just measure the tire track width on your tractor to make sure the tractor will fit the channel width on the trailer.

A full width flatbed trailer won't have this issue.

A standard car trailer will haul that load (3200 lbs) just fine. If you have a buddy with one you can borrow, or a local rental place rents actual "car trailers", that may be the way to go. Don't forget chains and binders, one on each corner, to tie the whole thing down with.

 

[SirMaxwell]

Try Uship.com. Sometimes you catch them with room on a trailer, or in between loads, or coming back, etc. No one wants to travel empty in any direction. I've shipped a couple cars, a 750 Bike, etc usually at half the going rate. YMMV.

 

[Oldoak]

Besides, farm machinery dealers, most car dealers, selling new or used vehicles, usually have roll back trucks for picking up vehicles from different dealers and auction houses. I would check around and see if one of them may be willing to transport the tractor you want.

I think their price would be less than a professional transport company?

 

[djefferis]

Uship.com

Towing company typically $3 a loaded mile, $2 unloaded in my experience. Depending on the market and number of shippers, Uship should be about half that.

 

[D2Cat]

My friend needed to go 200 miles to pick up a skid steer. He rented the trailer for the local rental yard, so he had a good spare, boomers, hitch, lighting. Cost $70 for the day. That's cheap enough it's not worth getting your "maybe it'll work" trailer ready, just go rent one.

 

[3gunr]

Last year I got a quote to haul an 8ooo lb tractor 150 miles to my farm . they told me 650 dollars. that was through a transport company .

 

[4570Man]

My friend needed to go 200 miles to pick up a skid steer. He rented the trailer for the local rental yard, so he had a good spare, boomers, hitch, lighting. Cost $70 for the day. That's cheap enough it's not worth getting your "maybe it'll work" trailer ready, just go rent one.

The local rental place will haul equipment for $4 a loaded mile. They rent trailers for about $70 I believe but I don’t know if they’ll rent them that cheap without renting a piece of equipment.

 

[the old grind]

Last April I rented a car hauler trailer and appropriate cube van with full disclosure to haul a Saturn ION from mid-Alabama to mid-Michigan with a houseful of furniture, appliances, and belongings. I rode the bus down to AL for ~a hun, and bare rental cost was <$800.

Penske beat U-Haul's rate by several hundred bucks, nearly what I paid for gas driving back to MI. The galvanized trailer was ergonomic as all heqq. Ramps were easily adjustable for loading width, as were ratcheting over-tire tie downs. When you rent, you load your own. When you hire, you pay someone else to load for you.

Would be no prob fitting your tractor on anything that'd haul a Camaro by size/wt. Call around your area .... since you're not nearby to just borrow my trailer. (or a fellow member's ...??) Sorry, it just seems that so often we're geographically exempt from coopting simple on-off tasks like this haul. Some of us are time and energy-rich and live to help others, wish we could offer more than who to pay. :2cents:

 

[MESSMAKER]

Renting a trailer would be my first thought. U Haul is OK too, but you will have to bend the truth. I think you can negotiate on the roll back if you shop around.