I rented 20ft heavy duty trailer which was pulled by my Toyota Highlander
Got to the seller 3:30h drive where the guys from the town showed up with BIG tractor to help loading the backhoe. That was easy!Used 4 3,333lbs straps to tie the backhoe to the trailer and 1 1lbs to tie top of the subframe to the trailer. By the time I got to the seller it started snowing in MA and I was bit nervous driving back through the endless mountains with the fresh snow on the ground - about an hour drive through local streets (40 mph speed limit) and 2:30 highway. Once I got the the highways I was relived.
Got home to NJ and it started snowing in NJ pretty heavily
. I was all by myself and I had to unload the backhoe from the trailer. My front bucket couldn't reach the backhoe with the trailer tires being on the side so I had to pull the backhoe back and to the side where I could get close enough and that's what I did. Pulled 10K lbs sling under the backhoe and used a shackle to connect it with one of the straps. I hanged the other end of the strap to the bucket and lifted the backhoe. To ensure the backhoe and the long subframe doesn't swing around I used the straps and tied each end of the subframe to a tree. And that's how I did it all
Let me know if you have any additional questions. Once again thank you all for all the help and I'm so glad I asked the question here. Before this post I was planning on taking just 500lbs straps, no slings no shackles.
