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Jim W

04-23-2002 15:08:01

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I have a brown mule with a picker and 2 row head. I drove it last year to the Portland, IN show that featured MM last year. That trip was only 22 miles for me from home. Long drive you say? My other alternative was to hire a lowboy trailer for $250.00 round trip. For $250, I thought I could put in a little gas and drive...Actually had no problems and it was an enjoyable ride at 11 mph.
Well, here's my question. How do some of you other fellas haul Uni's around? I thought maybe one of those JD planter trailers that lays to the ground would be easy to drive on (no ramps) and wide enough. I need 102" width clearance from tire edge to tire edge. I have a gooseneck 20" for tractors but not wide enough. I may want to show it a little farther, but probably not more than 50 miles (don't want to drive it that far) Besides having my own lowboy, do you have any other good ideas?

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Jim R

04-25-2002 02:13:29

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Re: Hauling a Uni? in reply to Jim W, 04-23-2002 15:08:01

Jim..I bought an older uni with a picker-sheller on it at a sale last year, it's a 1955. I loaded it on my gooseneck trailer which is 102" wide, but I didn't use my ramps, I backed the trailer up to a loading dock that was at the sale and winched it on. To unload it at home...I backed the trailer down in a roadside ditch along side of an embankment and pulled it off with a tractor. (It didn't run) I think that if it ran it would have been a piece of cake, but it wasn't to bad as is were. I think 102" trailers are legal in most states now. Do you know anybody that would like to buy my uni? Jim R

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Kelvin

04-23-2002 19:32:39

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Re: Hauling a Uni? in reply to Jim W, 04-23-2002 15:08:01

102" That's 8-1/2 feet wide. How wide can a vehicle be in Indiana without special permits? Here in NC I think the max width is 8 feet.

One thing to consider, at least on the older Uni's is that the weight is not centered from side to side. This might make the trailer want to lead to one side or the other. And the picker head throws a whole lot of weight forward too. So you want to think about it when you load the trailer. This may cause some handling problems.

Fortunately in my case at least, the patrolman didn't measure the width of the picker-sheller while it was laying on its side in the road.

And let me tell you-people came from miles around to see that one laying on its side in the road. So be careful with yours.

P.S. That was five years ago. The good news is that I finally got it running last year.

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Joe

04-23-2002 17:30:13

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Re: Hauling a Uni? in reply to Jim W, 04-23-2002 15:08:01

Jim,

How much too narrow is your trailer? Does it have stake pockets along the edge? When I worked for Pioneer in Rushville we moved some of the automatic machines with trailers that had extensions that dropped into the stake pockets on the sides of the trailers. Just a thought.

Joe

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