[AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

[Tyler Juranek]

Scot,
 Email me off list because I have an idea for you.
 Thanks!
 Tyler

On 9/27/16, Scott Williams <swillia5 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> As our brand new house is nearing completion, we’re thinking there’s no
> better time to do what we’ve always thought about – moving out of this
> crazy
> tax-and-spend state!  We figure with a brand new house and freshly cleared
> land behind it (giving the kitchen window a really nice view of the newly
> cleared property) we’ll get top dollar for what we have here in NY, which
> will allow us to move to Arizona (maybe even without a mortgage), which is
> where we feel like we need to be for various reasons.  Not Phoenix (HOT),
> but Snowflake, up near Holbrook and Route 66, at 5,600 ft. altitude, and
> about 5,600 population, too.  Big change.
>
>
>
> We figure we’ll rent a couple of the big U-Haul trucks (or Penske, or
> whatever’s cheapest) the biggest box trucks you can get without a CDL, and
> load up most of our things in those, but I’ll need to get my tractor out
> there somehow, and I don’t know what the best option for that will be.
>
>
>
> Renting a trailer is an option, if I get a car hauler trailer, it will hold
> the tractor (and maybe one implement, like the mower, I hope.)  That would
> be around $700 for a one-way tow.  I could probably buy an old car hauler
> trailer or other dual axle flatbed trailer for around $800-1000.  To pull
> it, I’d use either my ’05 Sprinter, or maybe buy a pickup truck to pull it
> –
> but that might just be something like an old 1500 Silverado, not a ¾ ton or
> anything heavy duty like that.  I’d prefer to own a trailer to haul it
> with,
> vs renting, for taking it for repairs, or to do work at someone else’s
> property, so there’s a huge benefit to that, for not a lot more money.  But
> a rental trailer comes with company support, vs. sitting at the side of the
> road with a blowout or roasted bearing in my own trailer – who do I call
> then?
>
>
>
> Another option would be to somehow get it into the back of one of the box
> trucks, I don’t know how possible or reasonable that is.
>
>
>
> The tractor weighs about 3500 lbs., the mower another 900, I’ll be getting
> a
> 550 lbs box blade, maybe a back blade (200-300 lbs.??)  Because this is a
> vineyard model 135, it is very narrow, and would probably even just barely
> fit (lengthwise) in an 8 foot truck bed, with the right loading ramp (the
> width for sure would be fine, at about 50 inches.)  Here’s a vineyard model
> that sold at auction, same year as mine (but, ahem, a bit nicer…):
>
>
>
> https://www.mecum.com/lots/GL0616-251644/massey-ferguson-135-vineyard/
>
>
>
> So what should I do?  I’m afraid of selling, because I’ve always been sorry
> when I sold something I love as much as I love this tractor.  Sure, there
> are always other tractors, but if you sell your tractor, then buy another
> house, does the money really end up in another tractor, or just a nice
> granite countertop in the new house?  But that might be the best option, if
> moving it will end up too costly and maybe dangerous.  Because of where I
> live (where farms are going away, and people are leaving too, selling off
> what they have,) I think it is much easier and cheaper to find used
> implements here than in Arizona.  I can get a good 6 foot box blade for
> about $500 here, and I’ve looked online in AZ and it looked like a Woods or
> Bush Hog box blade would be closer to $800, just as an example.  I missed
> out on a really sturdy Gannon box for $300 or less, really kicking myself
> for that.  So selling here doesn’t automatically translate to buying there.
>
>
>
> If you have any advice about hauling tractors, I’m all ears.  I may not
> follow your advice, but I’ll listen!  Also, any websites about this topic
> would be great, too.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott in Penfield NY
>
>
>
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