[AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

[Stephen Offiler]

Hi Scott:

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Scott Williams <swillia5 at rochester.rr.com>
wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
>
...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.


Do not purchase an old pickup truck and expect it to reliably tow a trailer
across the USA.  Furthermore, my personal opinion (and this will be
controversial) is that 1500's or 150's or 1/2-ton's or whatever you call
them are either the perfect compromise between a heavier truck and a car,
if you want to drive them daily; or they are stuck in a no-mans-land of
compromise between being too big and thirsty for daily use, and too light
for serious hauls like a cord of firewood or 55 bales of hay or a sizable
trailer.

Others have mentioned that a purchase of an older trailer will open you up
for reliability problems.  True, but, also very easy to avoid by putting on
fresh tires and wheel bearings before the trip.  That cost might put you up
near a new trailer.  So be it!  You did say you want to own a trailer.

And why not pull your new trailer with that biggest of box trucks you can
get without a CDL?  That seems so obvious that I feel like I must be
missing something.


SO