You "Road" Your Tractor?

[rockinbbar]

Some do and some don't.

I have to admit that roading my tractors to a place up to 40 miles away is probably easier, less time consuming, and safer than driving a big tractor and shredder up on a deckover gooseneck trailer and trailering it to the place.

By the time I hook up the trailer, chain it all down, drive to the destination, take the chains off, and back it off the trailer, and get going, I find it easier to just drive it down the road.

Tractors today can run faster than you want to run one. I know both mine will run about 30mph, but I seldom exceed 22 mph or so.

So I can be at a destination 40 miles away in less than 2 hours drive time. Might get there a tad quicker with trailering it, but trailering is much more work. Besides, a casual drive down a farm road is good for the soul.. Turn the A/C and stereo on and enjoy the ride.

How do you get your tractor from one place to the next?

 

[sea2summit]

Depends. Max I road mine is about 14 miles to my farthest hayfield and I only road it because it’s pulling something then the boy is behind me in the truck pulling something else so it’s just more efficient to make less trips. If I wasn’t making hay, say just brush hogging or something I’d probably trailer it just to save my tractor tires.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

I almost always trailer my tractors. Most of my work will be 15 miles or more, and up to 250 miles away.

We do it so often, that it doesn't take long to bind them down. And, my tractors won't go more than about 15-16 mph.

 

[Farmer495]

I put a few hundred miles on a year on pavement. Trailering wouldn't work for my uses anyways.

 

[sea2summit]

I know hay dude does it just as a flex!

 

[wolc123]

I can’t stand trailers and I don’t like running tractors on the road for more than a mile or two. This is what I do if I need to go further than that:

 

[MTGreen]

Some do and some don't.

I have to admit that roading my tractors to a place up to 40 miles away is probably easier, less time consuming, and safer than driving a big tractor and shredder up on a deckover gooseneck trailer and trailering it to the place.

By the time I hook up the trailer, chain it all down, drive to the destination, take the chains off, and back it off the trailer, and get going, I find it easier to just drive it down the road.

Tractors today can run faster than you want to run one. I know both mine will run about 30mph, but I seldom exceed 22 mph or so.

So I can be at a destination 40 miles away in less than 2 hours drive time. Might get there a tad quicker with trailering it, but trailering is much more work. Besides, a casual drive down a farm road is good for the soul.. Turn the A/C and stereo on and enjoy the ride.

How do you get your tractor from one place to the next?

You have bigger tractors than I do; but my experience with utility size and larger compact size tractors has been that anything over about 12-15mph gets exciting in a less-than-desirable way when you hit a bump

 

[rockinbbar]

You have bigger tractors than I do; but my experience with utility size and larger compact size tractors has been that anything over about 12-15mph gets exciting in a less-than-desirable way when you hit a bump

Our paved farm to market roads are usually pretty good. County roads can be a bit rough. I slow to the road, or speed up if it's nice and smooth. Also, pulling a 5000 pound batwing shredder makes a tractor ride easier too.

 

[Hay Dude]

Just about every day!
This is the Magnum @ 25,000lbs pulling a 38,000lb Krone baler.

We live out on the road from one farm to another.

Baling, mowing, delivering hay and pulling the field mower.


Massey @ 33MPH with Pottinger mower.

 

[LouNY]

Quite a bit of road time on our tractors, field to farm usually from 1/4 mile to 3-5 miles is most common, 10-15 miles at times.
None of them are hi-speeders from 17-18 mph to 23-25 mph for the faster ones.