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Little Genius in a pickup bed

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mkirsch

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If you remove the hitch, tailgate down, will a 3-bottom Little Genius fit in a standard pickup bed? Trying to determine if I need to rent a trailer.
 
I brought my 2-14 home in the 8' bed of my Ram. It was close, but I was able to leave the hitch on it and strap it up tight to the back end of the plow to be able to put the tailgate up.

3-bottom might be pushin' it. What I'm thinkin' particularly is that the extra length might push the wheels far enough to the back that you can't get there. The wheels (cutoffs) on mine were wider than the gap of the tailgate (too wide to roll directly into the bed) it took some wigglin' and clever forklift drivin' to get it on.

I'm thinkin' trailer.
 
I just found some notes, and that 2-14 Little Genius, the longer beam was 7 feet or so and I had to hook the tail wheel sideways to get it all in.
 
I would lift the hitch up and tie it straight up and push it in the truck,then lift the tail wheel and put a wooden block under the third plow shear, that will take the weight off of the tail gate, tie it down and head for home!
 
Cattle trailer should be about 83 inches wide, I do not see any problems with that at all. It will be a lot easier to unload!
 
If the pictures are to scale in the manual, the plow appears to be about 9-1/2 feet long without the hitch, and with the depth lever all the way up.
 
(quoted from post at 19:05:22 12/31/09) If you remove the hitch, tailgate down, will a 3-bottom Little Genius fit in a standard pickup bed? Trying to determine if I need to rent a trailer.
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It will fit just fine, load it with the tail wheel to the front of the bed, no need to remove the hitch, just tie it up.
 
I don't feel like going out to my shed in zero weather to measure my 2-16" Little Genius, but I think you are really going to be short "on one end".

Take a couple 2x10" or 2x12" ten ft long just in case. I think you are going to need them. That's too much weight on a tailgate straight out. Lower the moldboards on the lumber, tie on a red flag, and you might be good to go.
LA in WI
 
We figured out early on it's not going to work out in the truck.

Right now we're trying to figure out if it'll fit into a 10' cattle trailer.
 
My 2-14 is just about 57" wide to the outside of the hubs. Add another 20" or so (2" each to the first two shares and another 16" for the third) and you should be close to 6-1/2 feet wide. If that' will clear the sides, I should think you could manage the extra length some how on a 10' deck.

If you're using ramps, and depending on their angle, you may have to lift the tail wheel right up out of the way, as the whole rig is long enough that it'll dig in if you winch the plow in, or get onto the ramp and, either way, lift the whole plow off one of the furrow or land wheels if you back it in.

I'm beginnin' to understand why Larry loaded mine in the truck with a forklift. I picked it out with a chainfall and drove out from under it when I got it home.
 
(quoted from post at 05:39:53 01/01/10) We figured out early on it's not going to work out in the truck.

Right now we're trying to figure out if it'll fit into a 10' cattle trailer.
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I see you found your answer, but I would like to be the first to say it WILL NOT fit in a pickup bed. Mine is almost as big as a small car. I tried to put it on a large atv trailer and it wouldn't be between the wheel wells. I used a 16' car trailer and it took up a lot of that.

The cattle trailer might work. If you go on backwards you will get the plow wheels on before you get to the wheels in the trailer (if that is how yours is set up. I would assume not when you say 10') I suppose I could go measure mine...it is REALLY cold though!

Like others said, just flip the hitch up and tie it off. It will take up the same amount of room and it is a lot easier.
 
my Dad farmed land 8 miles away in the 60's and used to haul his 3-14LG plow in his pickup, I hauled the same plow to shows in my pu and it fit with the endgate closed, later lg plows are harder to get in the box as the hubs are longer, hauled a 2-16 home and had to leave the endgate open.
 
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