AndyMA
Elite Member
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2000
- Messages
- 3,714
- Location
- Windham County, Conn
- Tractor
- Ford 2120 , Kubota MX5200 , Deere X748SE. 1956 Economy Tractor
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I'm one of those guys with 2 tractors and yes it does make it easier /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif I have towed many items including trailers hitched to my backhoe dipper arm and bucket. I don't like it one bit. The stresses on the backhoe arein unnatural directions and it tends to bend the backhoe arms and pins. The backhoe bucket being so far out behind the tractor goes up and down a lot when you are on anything but very level ground. The tongue of the trailer spends a lot of time far up and also scraping the ground. Also one other thing I don't think has been mentioned is loading an unhitched trailer. A dangerous no-no unless it has the geometry of a hay wagon with 2 axles far apart and the front one steering. When loading with heavy material it is ever so easy to have the tongue on the ground or totally up in the air, regardless of whether you have dual axles or not. The worst situation is when you have the trailer loaded with the unsecured tongue at normal height and you go to attach it to the tractor. Sometimes it's just barely stable and pops up fast and other times it drops fast when you perturb it. Good way to get hurt. I tow with my TN by using a long arm that goes under the backhoe into the normal drawbar assembly. Just my thoughts.
Andy
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I'm one of those guys with 2 tractors and yes it does make it easier /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif I have towed many items including trailers hitched to my backhoe dipper arm and bucket. I don't like it one bit. The stresses on the backhoe arein unnatural directions and it tends to bend the backhoe arms and pins. The backhoe bucket being so far out behind the tractor goes up and down a lot when you are on anything but very level ground. The tongue of the trailer spends a lot of time far up and also scraping the ground. Also one other thing I don't think has been mentioned is loading an unhitched trailer. A dangerous no-no unless it has the geometry of a hay wagon with 2 axles far apart and the front one steering. When loading with heavy material it is ever so easy to have the tongue on the ground or totally up in the air, regardless of whether you have dual axles or not. The worst situation is when you have the trailer loaded with the unsecured tongue at normal height and you go to attach it to the tractor. Sometimes it's just barely stable and pops up fast and other times it drops fast when you perturb it. Good way to get hurt. I tow with my TN by using a long arm that goes under the backhoe into the normal drawbar assembly. Just my thoughts.
Andy
