farm equipment. advice?

[jord0690]

Got this sucker for free. To wide to fit on the trailer. Was thinking of bringing my gas powerd air compressor, impact gun and sockets and take it apart. How would you guys tackle it? Also have a few other things i got free. Iv attached a pic.

[Mick]

Just a quick thought. How about cutting the chute and "tongue" with a Sawzall and pull it sideways onto the trailer?

[Mick]

Or take it off the axle. Still be too wide?

[Pnutfarmer]

Well, my first thought is that it IS a trailer, just get some tires good enough to hold air. I've moved lots of farm equipment that way if you don't have to go too far. Second thought, is that a John Deere model 12A? I can't tell exactly, but if so, it will have its own hit and miss gas engine on it under the cover on the right side. That engine alone could be worth more than the whole thing in scrap. If it doesn't have the gas engine and is tractor powered, you still may be able to sell parts from it.

If you must take it apart, I'd suggest a torch instead of sockets if you can get one. That thing has over 50 years of rust in the threads and will cost you a lot of effort to get apart.

A last thought, what about a skid truck. I know they can haul that, I hauled one on my low boy semi trailer. Some of the guys will only charge around $50 to make a short haul to a scrap yard for you if they don't have to worry about damaging the item being hauled.

[joef1812]

i agree with pnutfarmer and check it for good parts. if you do dismantle it if you have a big enough air set up put you impact on tighten and snap the bolts off, thats what i do even if im repairing it its not worth trying to take a rusty nut and bolt apart, if you torch it be carefull you dont start a fire with whater may be dried out inside it

[cummins]

winch it on your trailer as far as it will go strap it down and drive away. I removed one kinda like that last year. every bolt screw will be rusted to sh@t.

i laid a couple pieces of 2x4s down for the axle to slide up. the tires just hung over the sides of the deck. it was real back heavy (because it was on the back couple feet of the trailer) but i got the tires right up behind the wheel wells and away i went with the 4 ways on right to the wreckers. winch er up from behind and away you go lol
waste of time taking that apart, turn and burn.

[cummins]

or put a yield sign on the back and tow it.

[RustyDollars]

I've done two of these, but had the benefit of a loader and flat bed. If those are not available I would torch off the hopper and the front chute and load separately. The rest of the combine I would pull as is if possible or torch off the tongue and skid on the trailer sideways.

There's about $500 in value there. The weight comes from the frame and two big steel rollers located right behind the chute. Those spoke rims are also worth at least $20 each as "garden art".

Good luck!

[jord0690]

Only issue with towing it is its in stayner. Im coming from barrie. Bout 30 min drive. And i can only go get er after 5... So gottai go home with it first. Gonna see if i can some how ger er on the traiker

[admin]

Good scrapper rule of thumb:

"If it doesn't fit, make it fit!"

winch it on your trailer as far as it will go strap it down and drive away. I removed one kinda like that last year. every bolt screw will be rusted to sh@t.

i laid a couple pieces of 2x4s down for the axle to slide up. the tires just hung over the sides of the deck. it was real back heavy (because it was on the back couple feet of the trailer) but i got the tires right up behind the wheel wells and away i went with the 4 ways on right to the wreckers. winch er up from behind and away you go lol
waste of time taking that apart, turn and burn.

That's actually very dangerous. Having a back heavy load can send your trailer out of control at highway speeds, pretty quickly. It's really not safe to have a load distributed unevenly on your trailer, especially if it's a heavy load such as farm equipment. What can happen is your trailer's back end will start swaying left to right, which can be violent enough to roll over or result in a serious accident.

View this video from about the 1:00 mark, you will see the uhaul trailer swaying left to right. Lucky the guy didn't lose it but it's a perfect demonstration of what could potentially happen with a poorly loaded (particularly back-heavy), unbalanced trailer.

[chrisc]

you are very right admin level and proper loading there are many horror stories .I am cdl A driver and had some very close calls and even the fluids in equipment can throw it off i would dismantle parts of it throw in truck then place on trailer ..just my thought

[cummins]

were talking about a paved country back road not hiway speeds here. i know the Barrie area where he lives quit well i don't expect him to hit the 400 hiway at a 140km pr/hr. i'm just saying winch er on and strap it down throw the 4 ways on and casher in. nice and easy wins the race

your video is a 4 lane interstate, you think I'm that dumb lol my guys call me the "strap nazi" come on now
id say its just as dangerous to be driving with a laptop open recording not paying attention if you want to talk about safty

[cummins]

Only issue with towing it is its in stayner. Im coming from barrie. Bout 30 min drive. And i can only go get er after 5... So gottai go home with it first. Gonna see if i can some how ger er on the traiker

ya stainer is a bit far. I'd spend some time taking it apart. I don't know about 500 value scrap prices are tanking here best you might get is .08 cents a lb

[jord0690]

Im gonna take my trailer and see what i can do. Maybe take a bit apart and see if itll winch up sideways. If not i dont know lol ill figure it out. Worst case i need to load it up kinda sketchy, secure the sh!t out of it and do 40 and throw the 4 ways on. Then take it down to the yard the next morning. Too bad i have to do it after hours. Midwest metals is 10 mins away from this place.

If i ever end up owning a yard ill stay open late a few days a week. This only open till 5 thing really screws me up.

[cummins]

bankers hours are a thing of the past tha's why i went to TD bank lol open when your off work. i used to dream of my own yard now its more of a transfer station lol

[jord0690]

Lol im with PC financial. All free. I will never in a million years pay a bank to hold my money. But I do think yards need to start staying open later, even just a day or two a week. Guarantee they'd get a lot more business.

Really screws me up cause i reaaally dont wanna drive around town with that thing on my trailer all sketchy and whatnot....

Gonna see if i can haul it up as far up as it can go, till it hits the wheel wells, then try and jack the axle up onto the wheel wells and over. That might work.

[cummins]

it will bring a few pieces of lumber and slide it over. i was with PC for years but they kept messing up my automatic withdrawal for my (old) car payments. moneys in the bank but kept bouncing.

[jord0690]

it will bring a few pieces of lumber and slide it over. i was with PC for years but they kept messing up my automatic withdrawal for my (old) car payments. moneys in the bank but kept bouncing.

Thats the plan. Should have lots of room once its passed the wheels. Gonna take some redneck rigging and a few choice words but ill get er done. Gonna bring some extra chains. That sum b!tch wont move an inch.

Heres the trailer. Ill cut some of the machine off if i have to.

[Focker]

well i would take the sawzall or torch and cut it up and load it.

[jord0690]

well i would take the sawzall or torch and cut it up and load it.

Im gonna cut up as much as i can so that its not its full weight on the trailer