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Rfdeere 
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 3:19pm |
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Question for everybody that has hauled these tractors numerous times. I currently tie the front down by putting two clevises in the holes on the angle iron crossmember / Front Support. I have seen many others in my area do this also. I am starting to think I want some other way. So my ? is how do you all tie your show tractors down?
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Larry(OH)
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 3:25pm |
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I throw a web around the front pedestal aover the front tires and pull it forwaard, then wrap aa chain thru a clevis on the draw bar. I had a guy tell me one time NEVER to just run the rear chain thru hitch or clevis that you should make a wrap of chain at that point. He said a tractor will slide sideways on a trailer the other way. He worked for our old AC dealer, then to the Oliver/White dealer after that
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Max(ia)
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 4:16pm |
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Have two chain hooks on short chains inside the frt frame on my WC, use two chains from hooks to trailer stake holes, back into them, then two chains hooked to drawbar bail, tightened with binders. Some what the same on the D15 except I have an angle bolted to the frt with slots going toward the stake holes.
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 4:31pm |
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Gary in da UP
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 4:54pm |
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Dusty MI
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 6:40pm |
It's my understanding that DOT requires 4 seperate hooks so if one should come undone/break the other 3 are still holding.
Dusty
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 7:33pm |
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NCAllisnut
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 7:37pm |
I use one chain through a clvis on the back and two binders on front. I hook one end og the binder to the frame rail lip behind the engine cross member.
Adam
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Wendell(OK/TX)
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Posted: 03 Dec 2009 at 11:56pm |
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Yall will think this is insane. Had two WD's hauled in a few years ago, Hauler was a trusted friend so I didn't argue and the price was right but we loaded those on his trailer, he ran ONE chain thru the rear rims of each and off he went. I had other stuff to do so last I saw the rig was north bound at 80 mph, no I'm not kidding. 150 mile and 1 state line later he rolled them off at my place. Known him all my life and never heard of him losing anything off the trailer. Yes I tie down different from that when I haul!
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 5:13am |
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Matt MN
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 8:10am |
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"Make sure you drop your chain down thru the pocket and bring it back up and hook it on the outside."
This is a big NO-NO according to DOT standards ALL hooks and straps MUST be inside of rub rail. not the outside of the rub rail it can get sheared off while it is on the outside in an accident.
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Rfdeere
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 2:18pm |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 2:39pm |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 3:03pm |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 3:23pm |
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 4:32pm |
Thanks for the info - I never knew I could be wrong in so many ways and not know it.
Adam
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StanInLowerAL
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 4:51pm |
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Very good safety subject. Any one have any pictures or drawings of the "DOT approved way" to do it? I have seen some equipment being hauled that made me cringe with disbelief. The worst was a small utility tractor/loader/backhoe combo that had one 2 inch nylon strap across the top of the rear tires behind the fenders. It was behind a 1/2 ton pickup on a flatbed, two axle trailer. Probably no brakes either. If I could have found a patrolman, I would have turned him in.
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Hartland Farm
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Posted: 04 Dec 2009 at 4:55pm |
When I bought license plates for my car hauler I was given a copy of the laws pertaining to it. I know things may be different from state to state but there are lots of laws here in Tennessee that can cause you trouble with the DOT. If I were new to hauling I would go to my County Clerk and be sure before I got on a state highway. Tennessee law states that if you are hauling a wheeled vehicle straps are not to be used. 4 chains attached to the four corner of the hauled vehicle and then crossed and attached to the trailer will be used. On my tractors that are showable I have made brackets for the bolts on the wide fronts and for the drawbar. I purchased security hooks and made up chains with boomers for the 4 corners. It's a lot of trouble but it keeps me out of trouble.
Joe (TN)
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