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Farming Thread:

I would call are talk to your local equipment dealer and ask them how they move them and they should be able to tell you the best way to do it.
 
its long! i'll give you guys an idea of what it is.

http://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/detail.aspx?OHID=5444312&GUID=B0A887BC4FEF4BD8B771162A03A6FD06

that's a link to one identical to the one we bought.

You are right. That is a big unit. How much does it weigh? How wide is it? If it's light enough pull it with a pickup. It looks like it has caster wheels so the tounge weight shouldn't be excessive if I am looking at it right. Or have a tractor hauled there and drag it home. 120 miles at 20 miles an hour is only 6 hrs. 6 long boring hours, but it may be the cheapest in the long run.

Good luck.
 
Yeah i think your best bet would be to haul a tractor out there and pull it home and would be the safest thing to do. I don't think it would be safe to pull that behind a truck.
 
its about 42' long and about 14'6 wide. i think it weighs somewhere between 15-17K. we pulled our corn planter (2 pt hitch) home from indianapolis (165 miles) behind the semi a couple years ago. we might be able to use the same type of hitch to do this. i'll have to dig those pictures up to see if that'd work or not.
 
Well unless laws have changed (had to add a disclaimer) a permit is not required in the state of IN if it is farm equipment, and movement is allowed 24 hrs a day.
 
Ryan, its up at Pefley's in Lagro. dad bought it at the sale they had last Thursday. we should have bought it the week before for their advertised price, but you live and learn i guess.
 
Don't even think about it after dark. My dad bought a 28' Crustbuster drill in MO last winter and I went after it because I have a big trailer. It was 14.5' wide folded up and I was running hazards, going slow, and running a rear facing light and still got hit. Cost my insurance about $7000 and my premimums doubled :mad2: cause the state patrol blamed me. I had no place to go as I was up against a guard rail on a bridge. They never even slowed down till I slowed them down :eek:. Some people can't see past their nose I guess.

Well unless laws have changed (had to add a disclaimer) a permit is not required in the state of IN if it is farm equipment, and movement is allowed 24 hrs a day.
 
Yeah I hate that. People just fly at you even when you have something 20 feet wide on.
 
we got our bean planter delivered today! they brought it from lagro, IN to findlay, and i just had to run into town to pick it up. looks like a pretty nice unit. now we just have to figure out how to fill the dumb thing.
 
we got our bean planter delivered today! they brought it from lagro, IN to findlay, and i just had to run into town to pick it up. looks like a pretty nice unit. now we just have to figure out how to fill the dumb thing.
Do I see an auger wagon or seed tender in your future?...:D
 
Do I see an auger wagon or seed tender in your future?...:D

we want to rig up a fill auger right on the planter, so we don't have to put augers on our 5 seed wagons. nobody seems to make a kit for the great plains units yet, so we'll just have to rig something up i think.
 
So how's everyones planting season coming along?

I got my corn in the ground this past week. We had the best planting conditions we've had in a while. We're get some rain now. I hope to plant soybeans this coming week.
 
we haven't been able to do anything in the field yet. we did get some projects finished tho.

rear hitch for the new to us Krause Landsman, and a seed fill system for our Great Plains bean planter.

i'll post up some pics tomorrow.
 
Been wet here to. Got most of the ground worked, need to spread some more fertilizer and work the last bit and start planting. We did plant 2 acres just to check the planter out. Be a couple days before we can work ground again after the last 3 inch snow.
 
We've got about 2500 acres of corn in. It has been pefect up until this weekend. Now we're going to be sitting a few days with all the rain.
 
Illinois is just a joke it's so wet. This is setting up like last spring except this time there is phenomenal erosion all over like I've never seen. Maybe 10% have even been in the high ground fields and I'd suppose 5% might have some corn in. Now it's saturated again. There are fields all over that won't be dry enough to plant for a month if it stops raining which it won't for awhile. Lucky me, I don't actively farm any more but you can bet I really feel for the guys that do...:mad2:
 
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