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i am wanting to build a dollie to pull 1 tractor with me to a few local shows....now then i have 2 tractors and i want to drive both to the show but i dont have any one close to help so i was thinkin about a car dollie but not as wide both tractors are narrow fronts. was thinkin about a front wheel drive car rear axle cut it down and build a small ramp and chain'em down only going 5 miles and 15 mph what do you guys think
 
That is very doable. I've seen at least one individual who does that each year (20 or so miles each way???) to and from the big tractor show at Temple, TX. Good luck.
 
I would make a steel box that bolted to the running tractor's drawbar. The rear side of the box could fold down for a short ramp. When the second tractor's NFE front wheels are in the box, fold up and lock the ramp.

Send us some pictures when you have it built.
 
I built a tow bar that was boltede to the front of an M.used it on some others.the narrow and single fronts 'traked' very well.15 mph would be fine.
 
I have one that I bought on an auction and have seen one other one. The nicer one used a grinder mixer screen as a place to park the front wheels with a short ramp welded on the rear to drive up on. I've only used mine once, to go about 8 miles each way on gravel roads, and it worked good too. Mine is loaned out right now or I would get you a pic of it. When I get it back I will post one.
 
I have a tow bar that I use to pull a tractor with. I always keep the trail one running. I was told that the engine controls oil flow to the rearend. Never looked any further just let the tractor run. Correct me if I"m wrong please.
 
(quoted from post at 08:52:05 06/04/10) I have a tow bar that I use to pull a tractor with. I always keep the trail one running. I was told that the engine controls oil flow to the rearend. Never looked any further just let the tractor run. Correct me if I"m wrong please.
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I know for sure that if you're towing something like an H or an M, up through the 460/560 you're wasting fuel. The gears run submerged in oil. There's no pressurized lubrication system in the transmission.

The question comes up with you get into the hydraulic TA tractors like an 806. I don't know how extended towing would affect the TA, or if the TA has pressurized lubrication. My gut feeling says that the hydraulic pressure is only used to shift the clutches, and that the TA gears run submerged in oil just like the transmission.

When you get into the really new powershift tractors like the Magnum, then there may be something to leaving the trailing tractor running while it's being towed.
 
While I agree with much of what you say and wouldn't tow a tractor myself, the outer brake pinion bearings and reverse countershaft are above the normal oil level. They receive lubrication from oil slung into a channel on each side of the transmission case by oil that is brought up by the lower transmission gears passed to the sliding gears. While being towed in neutral the lower gears don't turn so oil isn't fed to all the bearings. With the engine running, the transmission countershaft is spinning via the constant mesh gears allowing some oil (not quite as much as if the tractor is under its own power) to make it to all the bearings.
 
I have three of them, one is hom made, the other two are just old JD hay conditioners with everything bit the fram missing. The JD ones has a iron that the front tires straddle, and the front wheels drop down on the iron.

Four tractors in a string is interesting, and gets alot of attention, but the amount of sway is a whole bunch, and a few exta HP, and weight for the tow tractor is important.

My total cost for all three combined is less than ten dollars.
 
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