Most economical way to move tractor to dealer

[aircommuter]

I have.
Many times.
People underestimate the time & effort to chain down a 20,000lb tractor.
Easier to drive it. They run at 34MPH and have suspensions.

I had numerous machines and loaded and hauled them to every job for 25 years. Just part of the routine.

 

[fidowanttobe]

My good friend had one of his friends haul his 140 HP tractor, nice guy but he didn't know that it should've been on backwards therefore cost my friend almost $2000 for the all glass door that popped open and shattered.
Ain't no cost savin's there!!!

 

[Aussie Cargo]

Ok. This might be a little odd. I don't own a pickup or trailer yet and I need to get my tractor to the dealer. They used to pick it up and drop it off for $200 but they informed me they've been losing a bunch of money and have bumped up the fee to $450. Besides 'knowing someone' that I can bribe with a steak dinner what other options are there? I've found truck rentals for $90/day and a trailer rental for $75/day. That comes out cheaper but there is the time picking up both, at two different locations for both the tow there and back, and the drive time to and from the dealer.

Is there no local guy that does call outs?

 

[Hay Dude]

I had numerous machines and loaded and hauled them to every job for 25 years. Just part of the routine.

I think construction equipment is vastly different from AG tractors?

Did they have 34MPH road speed? Cabs with HVAC & suspension? Front axle suspension?
Probably not, because if they did, you’d probably road them.

If I had to load my machines on trailers every time I moved them, I’d spend so much time loading & unloading, I’d never get any work done.

 

[DarkBlack]

My good friend had one of his friends haul his 140 HP tractor, nice guy but he didn't know that it should've been on backwards therefore cost my friend almost $2000 for the all glass door that popped open and shattered.
Ain't no cost savin's there!!!

Not saying that didn’t happen, but just thinking… so if your friend’s tractor was parked at home, and he got 40-60mph winds, all his tractor doors would have unlatched and blown out the windows?
Serious question. Not trying to instigate, but just thinking a secure door should be good for 60 mph winds .
I routinely get 40+ winds here

 

[jk96]

Don’t forget the 5th chain & binder for the loader.
From start to finish, it takes me 45 minutes to hook up the gooseneck and chain a tractor down.
In 45 minutes, I’m 25 miles down the road in the tractor.

Anything over an hour’s drive and I’ll load it on the trailer.

There isn’t a road in MY area where you run 60MPH pulling a trailer. I trailer 75 loads of hay a year and I average about 40MPH.

I live in hilly & old school “coastal” PA, where driving is misery. You live in the flatlands of Florida, where the driving is actually a pleasure.

This is why I have a $500 minimum to move my trackloader. At 17k lbs plus buckets, brushcutter, and any other implements I may need for a job there is a lot of load and unload time involved. Load, secure, transport, unload, do job, load, secure, move, unload again. Sometimes people don't seem to understand why I won't do a 1 hour job for $200 or even $300.

 

[Hay Dude]

Depending on where you live most don't drive their tractors that distance because you are a nuisance on the road and could cause an accident.

Now before you lay into me for saying that... since it's just the truth, I've seen here in Texas where people are passing slow moving farm equipment all the time and you will never convince me its the right thing to do to drive it 25 miles. Every time someone passes there is a much greater chance of something happening. Not the greatest for the tires either. These guys are just going from field to barn which is normal.

I used to live in SE PA... actually our whole life. Brother lives in Quarryville... Amish country.... and the buggies... yep.

I would go with a rolloff.

If a tractor is 10’-12’ high, how high would it be on a rolloff? Bout 14’????
How about a 12’ tall square baler?
Let me know how well that turns out with overpasses and trees around here. lol

No, those go on a detachable low boy or they get driven if they are operable, not a rollback.

No F’in way am I paying a rolloff $500 to haul a tractor 35 miles.
You must be either crazy or rollin in cash to do that.
Even my own service department advises roading.

 

[Hay Dude]

This is why I have a $500 minimum to move my trackloader. At 17k lbs plus buckets, brushcutter, and any other implements I may need for a job there is a lot of load and unload time involved. Load, secure, transport, unload, do job, load move, secure, unload again. Sometimes people don't seem to understand why I won't do a 1 hour job for $200 or even $300.

I’m 27,000lbs tractor & bush hog. It’s also about 35’ long. Everyone is within 10 miles of me.
You’d have to be a moron to use a tractor trailer to move my mowing rig when you could drive it there in 15 minutes.

But as I always say, you do you, I’ll do me.
We do $60,000/yr in field mowing since 2000, so I have a pretty successful business plan.

 

[yanmars]

My dealer in the off season slow time will pick up and deliver for free and parts and labor are discounted 10% then to try to keep his workers busy at that time.

 

[Hay Dude]

My dealer in the off season slow time will pick up and deliver for free and parts and labor are discounted 10% then to try to keep his workers busy at that time.

For a 25,000lb farm tractor?
That I gotta see.


My Kubota dealer will do that for a zero turn or a compact utility, but not a large AG tractor