Posted by PJH on February 20, 2018 at 07:29:56 from (50.44.247.67):
In Reply to: Hauling Tractor posted by Randy K. Crump on February 20, 2018 at 07:06:24:
Many years ago I had a home-made tractor dolly for narrow front tractors. It had a flip-down ramp to get the tractor on it. I used it some, but never got real comfortable with it. It was for slow speed short distance use only. I lived three miles from the farm, and used it to occasionally ferry a tractor back and forth. They are simple and easy to make. Make sure you build it to carry the front tractor wheels ahead of the dolly wheels. If the tractor front is balanced between the dolly wheels, it will tend to lift your pickup on hills and pulling away from a stop, especially on gravel. You could say that I made the same one twice, for the reason stated above. The one I made was very easy to loan out - it usually required several phone calls to track it down. The last guy that I retrieved it from didn't even know that I owned it, ha. It's not the kind of thing that you'd want to weld your name on. I can't even remember what I traded it for - been too many years.
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