I sold a John Deere 216 platform two weeks ago. The buyer was coming back through with a goose neck flatbed the next week after delivering a piece of machinery to a consignment sale and really wanted to haul it home on that. I told him I couldn't raise it that high with the combine. He said he moved them around all the time with a tractor and loader. So, I said we could try it and if it didn't work he would come back with a head mover. It lifted fairly easily with a John Deere 2840. Was light on the rear and didn't want to back up without spinning. Put a heavy blade on the 3 pt. and it got good traction. Like others have said if your bucket has a cutting edge that extends outward a little that helps get a bite under either the round tube or the upright supports on the left and right. Pallet forks do work great, but they need to be tilted downward a little so they lift under the rear main frame and not the sheet metal underneath. Guy that bought mine said once they bent the sheet metal up into the auger. Probably the universal way without pallet forks would be the use of 4 log chains. One on each side of the bucket hooked tight to something heavy underneath and the other two hooked to the back of the bucket then attached to the top frame on the head, sort of like the top link on a 3 point. If your tractor isn't large enough maybe a neighbor with a larger tractor could help. I assume you have a hydraulic bucket so you can "curl" the head down flat on the trailer. I wouldn't do it with a trip bucket. Good luck.
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