[AT] Towing

[Mark Greer]

Here in Ohio it appears to be legal to tow as many wagons as you think you
can pull. There is a farmer in the next township who regularly tows as many
as 9 gravity wagons around at a time like a train. As long as you are towing
with a tractor and have an SMV on the rear you can get away with about
anything, safe or not. I'm not certain about towing double behind a truck
although I'd like to know because I'd like to be able to tow a trailer and
log splitter or a trailer and a chipper sometimes to avoid two trips to a
jobsite. I have seen a number of trailers lately with a Reese-hitch receiver
on the rear so it must be OK somewhere.
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:39 PM
Subject: [AT] Towing


> In Indiana it is legal to tow a trailer with a rear hitch
> and to tow another trailer behind that. I am not sure of
> the law changes that allow that, just that they started
> appearing one day and are said to be legal. I was wondering
> how universal that might be across the country and if any
> states expressly forbid it. Most often it is a vehicle that
> is pulling a travel trailer and then has a boat trailer
> behind that.
> It seems a little funny that someone can hit the road with
> a 130 foot motor home pulling two trailers behind it but if
> I were to hang 3 empty farm wagons behind a tractor and
> start down a back road at 10 MPH with it I can be stopped
> and ticketed...
> I got to thinking about this because I want to go to a
> plow day about 40 miles away and I thought about putting
> the plow on a small trailer behind the bigger trailer. If I
> thought that there would be a loader or forklift there I
> would just sit the plow on the truck or crosswise on one
> end of the bigger trailer using my loader. My S-MTA Farmall
> that I would likely take does not have a 3-point lift or I
> could use a 3 point boom I have..
>
>
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