Hauling a cub

Put my foot in it again and now I am the new owner of a 1947 Cub Lo-Boy. Don't usually haul tractors...there are guys who know how to do that safely and well and I leave it to them. But this is a smallish tractor so I am going to take the pick-up and trailer and go get it and would like advice. The trailer has four tie down points. I was thinking I would pull the tractor a little forward on the trailer and put a chain on the front end then roll it back to tighten it. I could then put a second chain with a ratchet style binder on the back and tighten that. I don't want to hurt anyone or run afoul of the mounties. Could those of you with hauling experience advise me on this? I'm up to six tractors and should probably know this by now!

Lucky you!

Evenin' Dave.

Lots of guys bind down that way. The important thing, any way you chain it down, is to stop after about ten minutes into the trip and periodically thereafter and make sure ALL the chains are still tight.

I'd probably put the Cub on nose first to keep the weight on the high side of the trailer, and use the longer chain to secure by the front axle tube. Run one end of the chain through the anchor pocket and bring it back up, over one end of the axle tube and hook it back onto itself. Do the same thing at the other end of the axle tube with the other end of the chain. Hook each end so they are about even as this is the end you'll pull (or push) against. Any excess chain will be between the two loops. Tighten that up, and then use the binder on the chain on the rear.

Fixed drawbar or 3-point? If fixed, the drawbar is the place to tie onto. I think it has only a single hole, and I wouldn't trust a single clevis, so it's probably best to give your chain an extra turn over the drawbar. Pull it up as tight as you can by hand on one end and put the binder on the other.

Four anchor pockets doesn't sound like many. Keep in mind that you can run your chains under the tractor if you need to instead of off the ends. See Bouncer's lashing job at the link. That might be useful depending on where your anchors are, and it might also open up some options for finding a place to tie onto the rear if the tractor is a 3-pt.
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Thanks Scotty! That gives me some ideas. Bouncer must have quite a set if he let that load follow him down the highway!

Oh, there's a lot of Bouncer to love, and that truck is a HOSS!

Looks to me like Bouncer could have moved the tractor back 18" or so and taken some weight off the rear of the truck. He had room.

I hear ya. Dunno if you saw his note below mine, but I think he hit a kind of tipping point, where it was sittin' down on the trailer awful hard, too. I suspect he mighta split the difference.

That is usually how we bind the backhoe, 580 SM case. Same way we did the 555A and B Fords we had. Do it the same way on the rare occasion we haul a tractor or pickup. But we pull the front chain tight with the tractor, then bind the rearend down. Or you can do that at the back and bind the front, does the same thing. IF you are loading up or down hill, I would suggest putting the binders on the low end. Carry a spare binder though, "the book" says it's not correct.

If you want to do it the right way, here is a link for you. I have seen that book at some TA's and Flying J truckstops carry it.
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Dave: I'm sure you will get along fine, most important item in moving tractors is having about 20% more trailer deck than length of tractor. Having the right tongue weight on the truck is most important. That one alone can make your trip pleasant or miserable. That one is true no matter how large or small the truck-trailer.

I've seen too little tongue weight jack knife bumper hitch trailers behind pickups. I was approaching a sawmill one day. Saw a guy leaving and coming my way with 8' trailer loaded with 12' lumber, too much weight behind. Soon as he hit highway it was pedal to the metal. Knowing what was going to happen I stopped. At about 45 mph he started fish tailing, and when he tried to stop he jack knifed. Had I not stopped, I believe he would have gone under my second trailer of B-train.

Tractors are great once you realize the load is not right. Providing trailer is long enough you can move tractor to transfer weight.

I was tempted to make another suggestion. When I lived in NS we had a hometown bussinessman, worked like hell all week. On Sat. he spent his day at the local welding shop, who also did car undercoating. One other thing he did was get saturated drunk while there. A young man with a Toyota Corolla came in asked the owner how much trouble it would be to undercoat his new car. Our friendly neighborhood drunk, piped up,"No problem, we just take lid off the bucket and dip it in." He made the guy so angry, the owner lost that business. I almost suggested bringing the Cub home in a wheel barrow.