Sounds like nobody was thinking very much of another way to load it. If the machine ran, they should have been able to load it. I have a Cat loader with a hoe and needed to move it to my new property with snow on the ground. I borrowed my old dump truck to pull my tandem dually trailer. Street pads, with snow in them, on a trailer is at least 10 times more slippery than grease as you know. I needed to load it hoe end first so the hoe swivel wouldn't dig into the ground when I drove up the ramps. I didn't want to be loading it in these conditions but had no choice. I put a chain across the trailer, about half the length of the trailer up. I hooked the hoe bucket on the chain to help pull the machine up the trailer. I put the machine in reverse at just enough throttle so it just started to move. The hoe let me load it nice and slow to get it up the ramps. Once it was on the flat bed, I took the chain off and slowly backed the machine up to the proper place on the trailer. I always hated loading on that high trailer but what else can you do. I know this doesn't help you but I'm surprised that the driver or the owner couldn't have found a ditch or thought of another way to load it. The trucking outfit should have listened when you gave them all the details though. Hope you can find a good hauler to get it home. Dave
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