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Truck VS Trailer
There are multiple reasons why you don't want to use a big flatbed truck to haul your tractor unless it fits your specific needs.
1. A flatbed truck is much higher than a trailer. Usually you need a permanent ramp at points "A" & "B" to load or unload. Sometimes backing into a shallow ditch works and then use ramps. The angle is too steep to try to use foldable ramps.
2. A flatbed truck with as much weight hauling capacity as a double or triple axle trailer is more like a 450/550 or 4500 or 5500 series truck. This means lots of diesel and expensive repair costs.
3. Depending on the state that you live in, the motor vehicle/secretary of state usually makes you have a CDL to drive dualies. Some states is starts with 350/3500 other with 450/4500.
4. Unless you are a farmer, license plates are very expensive for big flatbeds in most states.
5. For only about $3,200.00, I got a new triple axle flatbed trailer than can haul about 10,000 lbs. I can hook it up when it is needed.
6. For only another $3,500.00, I also got a new tandem axle dump trailer than can haul about 10,000 lbs. I can hook it up when it is needed.
7. Many times, both types of trailers are needed. Granted with a flatbed truck you can haul the dump trailer behind. I usually can get a friend to follow with his pickup.
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Truck VS Trailer
Like Murf says, you don't need a big truck to haul a BX. I would think a 1/2 ton truck would be enough with a tandem 14 or 16ft trailer. Sixteen feet or more would be my recommendation since usually you find more "bigger" uses after you have it. I would recommend a small V-8 over a 6. A 1/2 ton truck empty on the highway with V-8 should yield about 16-18mpg. I get about 14-15 with a 3/4 ton on the highway. Somewhere, however I thought you also had either a bush hog or BH that would add some more weight and require extra bed length. I use a F250 Super Duty with 5.4 gas. I don't tow great distances, usually under 20 miles each way and it is on flat ground. My longer treks are about 100 miles each way to the condo or hunting property. Love my truck but chances are will go diesel next time.
Murf has a point about renting a hauling unit when it is needed. I like my own stuff and use it when I want to and don't like to work around anyone elses schedule. I'm usually short on time. If you have a tilt box on a truck that helps with regard to the loading and unloading headaches of a regular truck.
When I was a kid we used a sod ramp that butted up against a vertical wall of 4 railroad ties. Sometimes when we loaded a tractor the sod was wet and the tires would spin on the way up. We would get a running start and would have to stop just in time before crashing through the front of the box. The farm truck was a '55 chevy and the IH 400 (3-4 bottom plow rated) full size farm tractor just fit on it. A fast stop would get everything swaying. It seemed like a long way up their when you were in the seat. But again I was only about 10-12 years old. Was impressionable at that age. I also was scared to drive the combine on the road in those days. The road was crowned and narrow and the ditch was deep. When meeting a car on the road you had to drop the front tire of the combine part way down the ditch. When coming back out you had to be careful since the rear wheels of a combine steer and go further down the ditch on that way out. It didn't have power steering and for the life of me I couldn't figure out the shifting pattern so I would always have to stop and hold the clutch in until my dad took it out of gear. Now I understand the shift pattern was 2 vertical H's. If you turned the combine off, half the time it wouldn't restart without a jump. So much for JD 55 combines with Hercules engines. They sucked. Sorry, got off on a tangent!
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