TRANSPORTING TRACTOR SAFELY

Gary Fowler · Sep 20, 2012

RDrancher said:
Maybe they've been taking tips from a well known supplier's ratchet strap ad...

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I cant believe anyone who can start a tractor would be so stupid as to try and tie down one like that photo. With all the easy, strong places on a tractor to use, its quiet easy to find a good tie point. I am sure none of those guys were TBN viewers.

beckmurph · Sep 20, 2012

farmfun said:
Just curious, was this taken on I-24 or I-65 by chance?
(And NO that's NOT my tractor!)

Close, but no cigar. I75 north of Knoxville.

gumshu · Sep 20, 2012

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Pardon the lousy pictures, but it was from a phone. This looked to be a MasseyFerguson compact tractor. All I could really see, was that it had a 232 loader on it. So I really have no idea what brand tractor it was. I don't know if you can see it, but there was one chain across the middle of the tractor and was not even tight. I guess the tractor had a really good parking brake on it.
Using a phone while driving is not that safe either

That looks like a 3,500lb single axel utility trailer. Not good!