Most economical way to move tractor to dealer

[smaywork]

Local rollback here would be cheaper at $125 ish plus $2 a mile.

My thoughts exactly!

 

[CH4Ohio]

Surely someone with a 60 HP cab tractor knows someone with a trailer? ???

How does someone that needs a 60 HP tractor get by without a flatbed trailer anyway? Just seems like the kind of work that you'd be doing would require a trailer to pick up materials, haul implements and stuff, etc. You can find 10.4K and 14K GVWR equipment trailers pretty cheap on Marketplace if you set up a search alert and you're ready to jump on a good deal.

Just my opinion . . . no offense meant . . . but I'd buy a trailer.

 

[CH4Ohio]

A friend regularly uses a roll back to take his antique trucks to shows. He says its cheaper than owning a trailer. My bet is that a roll back will be around $50.00 to $100.00 for a short trip like this.

I get it that a formal cost analysis might indicate that it's "better" to call a tow truck every time that you want to take your car someplace . . . but who would want to depend on that and deal with the hassle?

Everyone approaches these little challenges from their own perspective. I'd much rather be self-sufficient and use my own trailer, even if the spreadsheet suggested otherwise. When it's all said and done, I can still sell the trailer and recoup much of my investment.

 

[ultrarunner]

I’ve pulled a few dead vehicles a short distance down the road on a chain. It sucks but it’s better than being stalled in the road. I would absolutely never pull a vehicle or a machine that’s already in a safe spot back into the road on a chain and I would never tow a tractor like that. Even a running tractor roads badly. Also if your tractor has hydraulic steering which most do you’ll likely have no steering without it running.

Safe spot is the key.

Stalled in a part of the city tow operators will not cover after dark leaves few options… get the vehicle out or face the consequences…

During Pandemic was the one and only time my service van was dead on the side of the road… even a homeowner said it will be gone if I left it…

Tow operators would not come out until daylight…

 

[CH4Ohio]

Safe spot is the key.

Stalled in a part of the city tow operators will not cover after dark leaves few options… get the vehicle out or face the consequences…

During Pandemic was the one and only time my service van was dead on the side of the road… even a homeowner said it will be gone if I left it…

Tow operators would not come out until daylight…

Good reminder not to drive your tractor through the drive-by-shooting area of town.

 

[LouNY]

I wouldn't be the least bit adverse to "driving it" "flat towing" "trailering" or have the dealer mobile service come out and work on it.

 

[deezler]

I think this tractor was LEAVING the dealer. Got about a mile away.

There was truck/trailer in the median, facing almost the opposite direction. Don't know if this was new or being serviced. Probably some yahoo with a 4' spoiler on the back of their honda and a 'fart can' exhaust got impatient and whipped through traffic. (again, I don't know)

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Daaaaaaanng. Totaled. A brand new machine? Or at least, relatively new still as far as I can tell.

That one yellow strap still going across the operator station is a major tell that it was probably loaded poorly and not strapped down anywhere near well enough. I would sure blame the person loading and towing the machine, not any random person in traffic who may have drove poorly around them.

 

[tradosaurus]

Surely someone with a 60 HP cab tractor knows someone with a trailer? ???

How does someone that needs a 60 HP tractor get by without a flatbed trailer anyway? Just seems like the kind of work that you'd be doing would require a trailer to pick up materials, haul implements and stuff, etc. You can find 10.4K and 14K GVWR equipment trailers pretty cheap on Marketplace if you set up a search alert and you're ready to jump on a good deal.

Just my opinion . . . no offense meant . . . but I'd buy a trailer.

I have a 55 hp tractor and got ride of not only my dual axle trailer but my F250 diesel truck. Just didn't use it that often and my local Kubota will pick up and drop off.

 

[acarr1]

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.

Call a local wrecker company. They’ll come with a roll back and suck it up. And $200 sounds like what I would expect to pay for a service like that unless you live way out in the sticks.