[AT] O/T - Trailering

[Mike Sloane]

About 10 years ago, I bought a Case 430CK from a guy who was moving to 
FL. While I was loading the tractor onto my trailer, he kept tossing 
"stuff" into the back of my dump truck - tire chains, binders, log 
chains, vises, bottle jacks, three-point brush cutter, and other things 
that he couldn't/wouldn't sell and didn't want to take with him. By the 
time both of us were done, I was pretty well loaded and almost certainly 
at or above the combined 10,000 gross weight that the old F350 mason 
dump was rated for. It was only about 30 miles, but almost all of it was 
fairly steep hills over state roads and interstate highway in fairly 
heavy traffic. And, did I mention, the trailer had no brakes.

It was a long slow pull, with a lot of angry drivers stuck behind me 
when I had to shift down to third at 35 to get up the steeper hills. And 
I was holding my breath and hoping that I wouldn't have to stop going 
down - I could feel the trailer pushing the truck.

But I got home safely, for which I was very thankful. Not too long after 
that, one of the rear brake lines blew while I was plowing snow, and I 
thought back to my ride home with all that weight.
<http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/case_430_ck/case_430_ck_coming.html>

I still have the Case tractor, but the truck and the trailer are gone - 
my tractor hauling days are over. If I ever buy or sell another tractor, 
I will hire someone else to do the hauling (and the worrying). :-)

Mike

On 10/24/2010 10:46 AM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
> I just read Grant;s message about trailer ing big tractors with
> little trucks. It reminded me that some years back, I got a J-D "D"
> from Kansas, and towed it to Tulsa Oklahoma using a 76 Toyota Hilux
> and a rented 2 axle trailer. Just to make it intereting, it started
> snowing as we were leaving Kansas. Made it OK, with a lot of strange
> stares as people passed.  Not sure I would recomend it to others, and
> it makes me thankful that I now have a Ram 3500 and lowboy gooseneck
> that does significantly better. I wish that I could find that tractor
> again. Had to sell it during 1 transfer. Regards, Dennis
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