[AT] Towing

[Jerry Rhodes]

Mark I see trailers an logspliter going down the  road here all the time, 
trucks, campers and boats also..
Jerry NW Ohio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Greer" <greerfam at raex.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Towing


> 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..
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "farmer"
>>
>> "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
>> continually fearing you will make one."
>> Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
>>
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>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> Central Indiana, USA
>> robinson at svs.net
>>
>>
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