[AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

Herb Metz metz-h.b at comcast.net
Fri Sep 30 02:23:38 PDT 2016


Scott, hopefully these different containers that you are considering are 
close enough that you can verify the cubic foot capacities of them (and the 
functional capacities). It is surprising, and sometimes disappointing, how 
some sales people have a disregard for measuring. Herb(GA)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Williams
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 4:02 AM
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
Subject: Re: [AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

I took a look at the Old Dominion site, two 28 foot trailers filled, 
$12470!!  2 x 26ft diesel Penske trucks will be $5600 including fuel. 
Penske gives you 10 days from pickup to drop off, so if you take one day to 
load (a big task) you have a lot of time on the road and unloading at your 
destination.

I'm not looking forward to this, we just moved from the rental house back 
here (10 miles) and it was a nightmare.

The good news I have is I have a hose bib, so I sprayed the crud out of my 
MF 135's radiator. Now I need to find the JB Weld I bought the other day and 
see if I can fix that leak.

Scott in Penfield NY

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vschwartz1 at comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 4:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

Scott;
With that much "stuff" and that much distance I would suggest you give Old 
Dominion Freight line a phone call and speak with them. I know nothing about 
them but I do know they run good equipment and will do what you need. They 
will bring a trailer for you to load, you have three days to load it. They 
take it where you want it to go and you have three days to unload it.
I am thinking it would be worth a phone call.
Gil

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From: "Scott Williams" <swillia5 at rochester.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 2:33:22 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Transporting a Massey Ferguson 135 across country

I really didn't figure that a 1/2 ton would be a good towing option. I'm a 
big fan of diesels, anyway. My '05 Sprinter is a 3/4 ton, and though it only 
has a 5 cylinder turbo-diesel engine, it would probably pull better than an 
old beater pickup. However, if we rent two box trucks, my wife will be 
driving the Sprinter, and there's NO WAY she'll pull a trailer. That is not 
an option. But I could leave my tractor behind and come back for it, so it's 
still an option.

I'm still hoping to buy a diesel pickup, but they're pretty expensive, even 
the rotted out rust bucket ones. Once we move to Arizona, we'll be coming 
back to NY every summer for a few weeks, at least for the next few years, so 
I'll probably want an extra-cab diesel pickup to pull a fifth wheel trailer 
for us (we've got 6 people living at home, though not all will be making 
that trip.)

I'm considering the shipping container and trailer ideas, just need to find 
out how much they'd cost vs. the rental of two U-hauls.

Scott in Penfield NY

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Offiler
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 8:05 AM
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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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