[AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

[Cecil Bearden]

When I drove the 74 Chevy fire truck from NJ to OK, the truc had a 427 
Gas burner and a 13spd Roadranger, I had a devil of a time making 45mph 
up the grades in West Virginia.  Once I got into MO, I stopped at Rolla 
for the night and the next morning removed the governor on the 
carburetor.   About 75 miles later at a rest stop, I extended the 
throttle rod and the truck had some power to pull the hills.   In fact I 
was passing Semi Trucks uphill at 80mph.  I had a friend who drove a IHC 
Ryder truck w/24ft box and DT466 from Louisville KY to Oklahoma City, 
and it had a governor that kept it running under 60mph.  He had a hell 
of a time on the hills, it would not get a run at the hill.   We called 
that Slingshottin"" when I was driving professionally.

Cecil in OKla


On 9/28/2016 11:59 AM, Phil M. Vorwerk wrote:
> As far as towing a car trailer with a big box truck, I wouldn't be too fond of making that trip. My business owns 2 International 4700's with DT466 diesel engines. The trucks have 26' boxes and are rated just under CDL. They barely have enough power to haul themselves, given the wind resistance of the tall boxes. I can't imagine hooking up a car trailer with a tractor and traveling any distance, especially over terrain with some pretty good grades....
>
> Phil in Southern Minnesota
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Offiler
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:05 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country
>
> 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
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