tieing down the tractor

heehaw · Sep 22, 2003

anyone have any really good ideas on how to tie a tractor (M4900) onto a flat bed trailer? i set the brakes, pull out the kill lever, leave it in gear, then run a chain over the tow bar in the back..which will keep it from going backwards but , if the bed of the trailer is damp, this won't stop the tractor from sliding when i put may brakes on, or even sideways when going around a curve.
heehaw

Richard · Sep 22, 2003

having never done it myself... but what about ratchets & sturdy chain at all 4 corners?

Seems to me you can't have too much "glue". I'd rather have 4 extra things to untie, than be 1 short and /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

P.K. Burke · Sep 22, 2003

HeeHaw:
I run a chain over the lower arms of the tph directly in front of whatever implement happens to be on the tractor and a chain over the frame extension in the front that the grill guard is on. I only use two rachet binders and that puppy ain't moving. I have a sixteen foot flat bed trailer and I can attach the chain ends to the stake pockets of underneath directly to the frame. Hope this helps. I sure wouldn't run with just one chain.
P.K. Burke /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Larry_T · Jan 3, 2004

You got to chain down front&back. If thier is no place to hook in back put clevis on draw bar. In front over bucket arms.Or through boom pipe. You can also put loop in chain at clevis, Then it can not slide sideways.

grandad · Jan 3, 2004

My dealer recently came to pick up my tractor on a roll-back truck. The driver - who has probably delivered hundreds of tractors - used chain tie-downs on a drawbar clevis at the back and chained through the tube connecting the FEL arms at the front. That's probably a safe method for most tractors with a loader. If no loader, tie downs to each side of front axle instead.

ltw · Jan 3, 2004

P.K.Burke, I do the same exactly. I do drop the tph implement,leave it out of gear and no brake until it's chained, that way it can move and tightens down when you bind the last chain. Two 14' chains and two binders do the trick. Then put it in gear and put on the brakes. Been 75+ mph running for hills and still have a tractor. YEEEHAW!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

narcnh · Jan 4, 2004

I moved my tractor and three beehives to my new place using a 16 foot landscape trailer. As others have posted, I used ratcheting tie down straps front and rear. On the front I attached one to the hook on the FEL and on the rear I attached the other to the base of the ROPS. I also put wheel blocks in front of and behind one front and one rear tire. Went over some rough, twisty-turny roads and up a steep driveway and nothing budged. To be honest I was more worried about the beehives. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

40Kchicks · Jan 4, 2004

Heehaw
I agree with Richard that it is best to bind the tractor down in four directions. Last month I took my M9000 in for its first service. I ran the chain across the front and back. Just as soon as I got into town some idiot pulled right in front of me. He only looked one direction. I had to swerve to miss him. I laid on the horn so he would know what he just did or maybe he just wondered why that big truck was in the other lane honking. Anyways I pulled over and sure enough the front of the tractor had slid over about a foot. That experience was enough to convince me that from now on I will put a binder on each corner. I’m sure the tractor wouldn’t have fallen off the trailer but I sure could have ruined a front tire if it had gone much farther and dropped a wheel off that deck.

Eric

LarryG · Jan 4, 2004

I have a BX2200 with loader and a 16 ft trailer. If I'm just going local around the corner type haul, I use a chain on front and back with rachet binders. It has not moved yet. If I'm going on a longer haul, I use a chain at all four corners with 2 snap binders and 2 rachet binders. I have hauled cars with 4 chains and the same 2 snap and 2 rachet binders with no problems. I have hauled my nephews Jeep from western NY to Georgia like this with no problems or shifting at all. I also wedge the tires as well.

RobertN · Jan 5, 2004

I took the kids to the snow yesterday. This guy came up and parked near us. He was hauling a 16' trailer behind his Ford; he had a highly modified tube framed Suzuki Samurai on the trailer. The trailer had a rail around it, about a foot high. He had backed the Samurai all the against the rail at the front of the trailer. He then used ratchet straps on the front end to pull the rig snug against the rail.

We were 5 miles up a snow covered road(paved road closes for winter, but everyone goies up there to play, 4wd, ect). I thought, any kind of emergency would have had that little buggy flopping all over that trailer /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

That is, if it even stayed on the trailer...