Posted by jdemaris on February 20, 2014 at 05:43:53 from (70.194.11.206):
I'm working in a rural area in northern Michigan and need to get my backhoe/loader moved a few times back and forth. 60 miles each trip and all pretty much "Michigan flat-land." I'm having trouble finding someone reliable and reasonable for the trucking. Last time I needed a backhoe that was 60 miles from where mine is parked - I just rented one from a local tractor dealer. It was a 30 horse Kubota and cost me around $125 for one day. Cheaper then paying to have mine trucked a 120 mile round trip. I do not want to rent the Kubota again. Too small and too narrow. Soil is all sand here and the narrow wheel track causes the ditch keep caving in. I also don't like rushing and "working on the clock." The rental place wants it picked up and brought back the same day for a "one day" rental. Winds up being more like 5-6 hours of use for what is called "one day."
So, I'm considering getting a trailer and pulling with my 3/4 ton truck. I would never consider it in the mountains of NY. But here it's all flat-land. Truck is a 94 Ford F250 HD 3/4 ton diesel with a receiver hitch and a goose-neck hitch. I already have a 6 ton trailer that I use to move my Case 310G dozer around with. But it's too small for my IH 3414 backhoe wheel-loader. I figure it weighs 8500 lbs. I assume a trailer is going to weigh 3500 to 4000 lbs. So that's 12,000-13,000 lbs. I'd be pulling. Can't say I ever tried it before with a pickup. Anyone else done it? A few years ago I hired a guy to truck my Ford 4000 backhoe-loader to the center of the NY Adirondacks. He had a 1 ton Ford dually diesel with a gooseneck trailer. He said the pull scared the heck out of him and he'd never do it again. But that was in the mountains.
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