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paul in mo

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I'm needing photos of the type of tie downs you use on your show tractor so it don't scratch or scrap off the paint. Thanks
 
no pics available.. but I use straps and sometimes old fire hoses as sleaves or even moving blankets under straps on a show tractor.

Most of mine aren't needing that treatment though.
 
Tiedowns? Isn't that what the parking brake is for? Really though I like the looks of the hooks bolted to the frames on tractors for that reason. Also a clevis in the drawbar if its legal.
 
What tractor do you have? Some are easier than others. My Fords, I have eye bolts through the front axels(good cast not junk bent ones)and on rear use axel straps around axels. Or have clevises on stabilizer brackets. I use 4 chains, always! the front I just chain and use binders on rear. I can make all 4 tires "squat". I even use chains on my golf cart. I have seen many IH & JD with short chains with a hook bolted to frames. Just make sure rated chains not junk, buy new chains so you know what they are rated for. luck joe
 
I only use chains and binders. Where I attach to the tractor at, I use an old inner tube cut in half so the chain can slide through.
 
I use short chains with hooks bolted to frame on front corners and clevis on back corners of drawbar. Chains,hooks, clevis,and binders are all 3/8 grade 70.
 
here is a photo of the show tractors
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On my pride and joy she got tied down with , oh god forbid CHAINS AND BINDERS . I would rather SCRATCH some paint then have it come off the trailer should i be involved in a wreck and have said tractor come off the trailer and slam into a car - van bus with kids in it . And it is like this if you want to haul IRON it takes IRON to hold it . If you haul plastic then use plastic . And here one little thing to think about I do not care how well you tie something down on a trailer if it want to come off it is going to come off. I had a 68000 lbs tire press that did not care that there were 12 3/8ths grade 70 chains and binder holding it down but due to the one engineer at the plant insisted that they OIL the base and set it down on plastic and NOT A piece of plywood or a rubber mat she slid and almost came off the trailer after breaking five chain while going around a curve to the right in a school zone with the lights on and i was at the 20 MPH when this happened . Then had a brand new 48000 lb Grade All break the two 7/16th HOLD BACK Chains in a panic stop and almost come off the trailer . Then on the other hand while backing into and oil well sight with a J D 750 dozer on a low boy the 4 foot culvert collapsed and here that dozer was being held on by just two 3/8th chains and never moved with the outfit setting at a 45 degree angle because it did not want to move . So if you value your TOY and you value life then use Chains and good ones at that , IF two are good then use four and for good masseur add one more for hold back .
 

When I trailer my trailer queen Ford 901, I just put a clevis on the draw bar for the back, and in front I use a rated strap around the pedestal, with a towel between the strap and the paint.
 
I haul a lot of tractors. Last year I hauled 2 percent of the tractors to the Mackinac tractor drive at the bridge. I use chains on them. If they are trailer queens with places by the owner suitable for use I use them. If there are no places like that. I use old 4inch nylon strap pieces, wrapped around the axle or where ever needed. The chain goes around that. I have found that chain will cut a mud flap old tire or whatever . A couple of layers of those nylon straps will take the guff. Like Tractor Vet said Iron for Iron.
 
(quoted from post at 21:24:49 02/01/14) On my pride and joy she got tied down with , oh god forbid CHAINS AND BINDERS . I would rather SCRATCH some paint then have it come off the trailer should i be involved in a wreck and have said tractor come off the trailer and slam into a car - van bus with kids in it . And it is like this if you want to haul IRON it takes IRON to hold it . If you haul plastic then use plastic . And here one little thing to think about I do not care how well you tie something down on a trailer if it want to come off it is going to come off. I had a 68000 lbs tire press that did not care that there were 12 3/8ths grade 70 chains and binder holding it down but due to the one engineer at the plant insisted that they OIL the base and set it down on plastic and NOT A piece of plywood or a rubber mat she slid and almost came off the trailer after breaking five chain while going around a curve to the right in a school zone with the lights on and i was at the 20 MPH when this happened . Then had a brand new 48000 lb Grade All break the two 7/16th HOLD BACK Chains in a panic stop and almost come off the trailer . Then on the other hand while backing into and oil well sight with a J D 750 dozer on a low boy the 4 foot culvert collapsed and here that dozer was being held on by just two 3/8th chains and never moved with the outfit setting at a 45 degree angle because it did not want to move . So if you value your TOY and you value life then use Chains and good ones at that , IF two are good then use four and for good masseur add one more for hold back .
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Watch it Vet!! you'll have people passing up on 16,000lb straps for 5/16 chain, and thinking that they are good. Much better to go by load rating.
 
When I was hauling around the country in the 90's, I grabbed a bunch of used truck rubber rim liners, thick rubber that protected the tubes from the wheel. Cut them about 18 inches long and use them between the chain and paint. I hauled a lot of new equipment with no problems and still have most of them. They were free from the back of most truck tire places.
 
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