Hauling a combine?

how far ya gotta go? JohnCo pulled his home lots of miles!

Your quandary begs this question. "How were these pull behind combines delivered when they were new?" I imagine most local dealerships delivered them to farms by pulling them there? But how did they get from their freight delivery train to the dealerships?

AC7060IL wrote: Your quandary begs this question. "How were these pull behind combines delivered when they were new?" I imagine most local dealerships delivered them to farms by pulling them there? But how did they get from their freight delivery train to the dealerships?

I think they were delivered knocked down like wfmurray said. Why else would the operator's manual have 14 pages of assembly instructions?

I just pull them home

If the seller has a tractor with a front end loader, he may be able to pick it up and set it on the trailer.

Edited by CrestonM - 19 Jul 2016 at 4:04pm

Funny you should ask.  I picked up, hauled, assembled, and delivered the 60's and 66's.
Remember this is from memory only.  For some reason or other we did not take pictures
When they were delivered there were about 6 on a railroad flatcar.  They were disassembled with the header mounted straight up.  Sides were not on the header.  Drawbar was not on the combine.  We sold mostly baggers so that was not assembled. 
When we went to pick them up we made arrangements for most of the dealers who were getting them to be present so we had manpower.  If it was close we mounted the wheels and drawbar and towed them home - not much more than ten miles.  Since our area was very rural at the time the Police were most helpful. 
When we had to haul them we put them on planks and dragged them on the truck longways and drove home.  When we got there we drove to a loading dock, put on the wheels and drawbar and towed it off the truck.  Some brave souls would mount two on the truck with it hanging over each side.  Sometimes it worked.  Sometimes it did not and the Police would stop you.
We used to tow them to the customers assembled pulling them with a F-1 1948 Ford pickup.  They were hitched as far as possible to the right side of the rear tow bar.  Made for an interesting tow since it you got over 30 MPH it would start to whipsaw.  Coming down steep hills was very interesting. 
I remember towing one when stopped by a Policeman.  He asked "how wide are you son"  I replied "little over 8' ".  He came back with a grin and said "how about 12' 6"?  Let me go after talking to my father.  It was farm equipment.
One time during WWII some farmers came with their tractor and towed them home - it was harvest time and they needed them   Was on the Fourth of July.  We found some US flags and mounted them on the combines.  Interesting to see them go.
We did not have things like a skip loader, portapower jacks and the like.  However we made do with what we had.
Hope this is some help.
Sorry I got so windy.  Brought back a lot of memories.
Good Luck!
Bill Long

On an aside during WWII you could get no help   I was nine years old and was put to work assembling combines.  Mounting the header was the problem though.  We would get it ready and wait for the High School Bus to come.  We would get the Students to help us - boys and girls.  They picked up the header off the horses and moved it into position for us to mount it.  It was our part in "fitin" the War

How is Iowa DOT to get along with on over width? Missouri is pretty good, but I've heard Iowa and especially Illinois don't even like farmers hauling grain with out of state plates. If it doesn't work out for me I hope someone else takes it. He said if no one buys it he may just cut it up for scrap, and the thing has set in a shed most of its life it looks like.

Armand,  Would LOVE to see you there.  Seems like just yesterday when we met at "coming home".  I still treasure that picture my son took with you, me, and Dave Maddox.
If I remember correctly you brought a model you made of a WC grader for delivery to one of your many friends.
By the way,  I am making arrangements to get a shirt or two from Hutch.  If you see anything else I may be interested in ask if they could contact me with costs and pictures.
Take good care my friend.
Good Luck!
Bill Long

I've hauled 2- 72's home this spring. My trailer is 102 wide and we had to lay planks down on the ramps because they weren't wide enough, and pushed them up with a Bobcat. Hauled 1 about 250 mile and the other 150.

where in iowa is it sitting?  i have one pulled it 25 miles it does take up a lot of the road i figure if a new johndeere can run down the road with 8 and 12 row heads on go right ahead they do all the time up here dosnt bother these guys a bit.  it takes 5 mins to take them off but they wont where a peterbuilt when ou need on on on comming hill?

65 miles east of St Joe is getting really close to me. This one is east of Des Moines.

if I can drive a machine shed down a road, you should have no problem hauling a little combine!

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