most unique thing you've moved with your tractor

Steve in VA · Jul 16, 2016

So, the mileage thread got me thinking. I haven't driven more than a handful of miles at any one time but I've been asked to move some odd items.

So the MOST unique request was to move a player piano about 3 miles. Sure glad I didn't have to tune it but it fit in the loader bucket so, once asked, I moved it.

RobCons · Jul 16, 2016

Steve that's pretty unique I think. For me I guess it is moving iron drive way gates. People think it is weird but I make them and use the 3 point hitch forks, no FEL, I made to help move them and install them. With the top link and side adjustment on the 3 point hitch I can angle the gate and drop it right onto the hinges.

GreenEnvy · Jul 16, 2016

Moved a wind charger tower with a NH 1047 bale wagon.

coshoo · Jul 16, 2016

Well, you stole my thunder right off the bat with the piano! My son was given a piano, but he had to haul it. Used my pickup, but getting it into his house was a problem- narrow front porch, with a right angle turn into the house which couldn't be done. So we took the porch railing off, and used my tractor loader to support a piece of 3/4 inch plywood on one end, the other end on the porch opposite the door. Wheeled the piano down the porch, turned it onto the plywood so we could line it up with the door, then into the house.

Been using a front loader on a tractor to haul stuff since I was a kid- dad had an 8N with a loader, and often said he could never understand how a guy could get by without a loader. We used it for moving things, as a hoist, hung a chain block off it to remove car engines, anything you could think of. We always supported it with something if we were going to be around or under it.

dr sportster · Jul 16, 2016

A lathe . Moving guy gave up and said it wouldn't fit . He had it up on dollies too high . Put car soap on plank pulled lathe up from basement.

BAnNC · Jul 16, 2016

I can't claim that I was the one driving but the Ford 641 that we used over 7 years was used to move cabins, outhouses, other misc. buildings across a mountain trail when they moved a boys camp to the next valley over.

Case Nutty 1660 · Jul 16, 2016

moved several single wide trailers in the past,, couple years back my VA moved two of these
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Zachary Hoyt · Jul 16, 2016

I moved a piano with mine too. Here's a link to an old thread with the photos of the whole circus.
Zach
All of the gory details

centash · Jul 16, 2016

Well, I didn't, but when my dad died, they used a tractor loader backhoe to carry him in his vault from the cemetery lane to his gravesite, because of the soft conditions, ..kinda appropriate since he repaired a lot of tractors in his lifetime. Ben

Steve in VA · Jul 16, 2016

"free" stuff. Ah the tales that result.

Steve in VA · Jul 16, 2016

Now that's just plain cool.

markct · Jul 16, 2016

Moved this 12 x 18 building 7 miles with our Ford 3400

Steve in VA · Jul 16, 2016

7 miles? ouch.

Robert Major · Jul 16, 2016

Hi I have done a couple of parade floats for guys, a big huge Lobster/crab fishing boat for a friend though has to be top for me, we had to do that at 5 am on a sunday before the buses started running on the route. it only had 8 to 10" clearance on parts of the road, and had to go a few miles from his land to the beach. Holding it back from sliding going down a sand covered concrete slipway, with a heavy 100hp front assist was the real fun part.
Regards Robert

pburchett · Jul 16, 2016

Not too unusual but I put out Clayton wood stove in the sun room with the ford 640 and the boom pole.

Dick2 · Jul 16, 2016

Moved a double walled, double garage 2 miles; used old REA poles for skids and pulled it with our HD7 crawler. That was one heavy building for it's size, almost wore one side of those pole flat. It's still on the farm; brother keeps a couple vehicles inside.

Charlie M · Jul 16, 2016

The original owner of my H used to drive it to the Genoa hotel after his wife tossed the keys to his truck out into the yard. Does that count for this category? I know some of you guys on here know where the Genoa in is at.

farmerwithmutt · Jul 16, 2016

Corn crib ,grain bin , church choir on Christmas eve. A friend built a box for the front of a bobcat he built a deck on the 2nd story of his house and his wife collects antique furniture lots of odd stuff on that and it works a lot better than carrying it up stairs.
One guy went down the road with a butchered cow hanging off the loader plan 1 trailer plan 2 shotgun she Was going that day one way or the other .

markct · Jul 16, 2016

Took about an hour and 45 minutes, not too bad, hills up and down were the slow parts. Also it was right at max height to be legal so slowed and lowered the tongue with the 3pt for a few of the phone wires on back roads. Loaded it Saturday and towed it home early on a Sunday morning

SweetFeet · Jul 16, 2016

Husband moved our cedar outhouse into its place near our shop with the loader (after constructing it partially inside the shop and then roofing and siding it just outside the shop).

I don't have any pics of him moving it.

JMS/.MN · Jul 16, 2016

It"s quite a list...son moved a trailer house about 90 miles with the JD 4450, another trailer about 15 miles, to live in while we built a new house in "97. Paid $200 for it at the salvage yard. Accidentally burned it after we moved out. Towed an M2 Gleaner backwards about 90 miles, another couple Gleaners about 10 miles.

Moved a garage multiple times with a 3020 with loader....drive tractor in, raise bucket to rafters, bale fork on rear lifts cross pipes under open end of garage...go down the road, can"t see, so watch out the side window for guidance from son on edge of road. (diesel smoke really builds up in there!) It"s really funny to see a self-propelled garage going down the road!

Another son got a free 36x60 hog finishing barn from a neighbor...we split it at 30 feet and trailered each section to his place. Trailered a 5500 bu grain bin about 5 miles. Did 3 smaller ones with the pickup. CRS says there are more.

Hayfarmer · Jul 16, 2016

I have moved a couple old buildings including an outhouse with JD430 and loader. I move a lot of stuff with it because it is easier than using a handtruck. Moved my gunsafe into the house(slid it through the door onto conduit pieces) with loader. I worked with a guy who lived in an upstairs appartment while he finished the ground floor. Large stereo/TV console unit in appt wouldn't go down the stairs so we took it out a window and onto the forks on a hay loader and lowered it to the ground

T in NE · Jul 16, 2016

I drug some sort of calving pen/shed out of a ditch onto a gravel road for a guy last spring. He was trying to keep it off the pavement with a 4020 and the side draft was getting him. The 7250 was much more appropriate for the task.

JF in MI · Jul 16, 2016

When I was expanding my barn I didn't want to tear down an existing end wall just to build another. So I cut the wall (with eves) in half' chained it to the bucket and moved them to the new position. Saved a lot of work and money in materials.

el6147 · Jul 16, 2016

carriage house

el6147 · Jul 16, 2016

another pic

Old Scovy · Jul 16, 2016

Yes I knew the place, I got kicked out of it one time. But I fixed them I just went to the 3 Maples but then I also got booted out of there also .So I fixed them and went to the Cobblestone Inn and fell asleep. Now to tell you I haven't had a drink of any thing since 1959 so you can see how long ago it was , But I never forgot it.

fixerupper · Jul 16, 2016

I moved a one car garage with the loader tractor inside the garage carrying the garage. I had a three point bale mover on the back of the tractor that slid under the bottom sill of the back wall and I lifted up on the top of the door in the front of the building with the loader and drove away. I went two miles up the blacktop road with it, sitting on the tractor seat looking forward out the garage door and trying to drive straight. All I could see was some of the road in front of me while the exhaust fumes from the muffler were building up inside this self propelled building. I have moved other buildings on trailers but this one was the easiest but the most unique.

NEKS · Jul 16, 2016

Dad rented this old widow ladies farm and she had a chicken house she wanted torn down. Dad decided he could make a farrowing house out of it. He cut some poles out of locust and we slide them under it. Hooked the M Farmall on to it and not enough traction. Hooked the WD Allis to the M then we could move it. We pulled it two mile like that down the gravel road.

01gentdc · Jul 16, 2016

,most challenging is always a house trailer ,cant see around them and most times they are heavier than one mite think . I moved into place many a trailer ,most were 12 x 60 ,, 14x 70 was largest,. , my son and girlfriend soon to be wife built a 8x 8 hunting for luv shack they took down to the creek island on the baleforks , said they was gonna do bible study but got all distracted reading about adam and eve .LOL and along that theme ,. his momma and I done a lot of unique moves on my tractors and in the combine cab ,. my 1st wife and I seemed to have a bucketphu- list of unique places,. one day she wanted to know how to drive the planter and plant some beans , she had just brought me lunch wearing one of those terry cloth towel like ,oh -BOY uhmm -uhm oum !, thangs that just get a gal and a willing guy in all sorts of trouble , told her to sit in front of me,and I would show her how , . I was wearing swimming trunks,. for a while,//,you can probably figure what happened next . We had big field rented along the creek , very secluded and heavenly place to swim , and .,whatever fancied a hotblooded couple that could not get enuf of oneanother.

Geo-TH,In · Jul 17, 2016

What I've moved with my small Tonka Toy really isn't anything compared to moving a house. However I've moved things with this 20 hp kohler gas engine that I thought it wasn't even possible. Last Sunday a friend wanted me to do some backhoe work at his place. I removed a stump, then picked it up and moved it. Then I drug some good sized logs that friend said a guy with a skidder had problems handling. I got that job done.

I picked up one end of a 8x10 shed made that on skids. Put a strap around the shed and drug it backwards to a different location in yard. Never thought I could do it with back wheels bouncing. That's when I learned I needed to hang rear ballast in back hoe hook.

A few years back I added on the house. I moved the old deck to the new back door. I never thought it could be done. Used a little physics and a 2 inch strap over the roll cage all the time thinking how much it would hurt if the strap broke.

Neighbor thought I couldn't move this tree without getting out the chainsaw. I asked where he wanted it and then told him to watch.

I know what I have is just a Tonka Toy, but it feels good to say this toy is MADE IN THE USA.
Everyone that sees what it can do says the same thing, "I'm amazed" then they want one.

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