Hauling A D4

If you strip it down - no dozer or any other heavy attachment, you might squeak by. Better not go past any weigh scales either 😮 😉

If you strip it down - no dozer or any other heavy attachment, you might squeak by. Better not go past any weigh scales either 😮 😉

Oh,
I forgot to mention,it's a bare tractor no blade,winch just tractor.
There's something I haven't thought about,the scales.
Do I have to stop??? Haulin d2's around never have????

Oh,
I forgot to mention,it's a bare tractor no blade,winch just tractor.
There's something I haven't thought about,the scales.
Do I have to stop??? Haulin d2's around never have????

I think Dforeeee has the right idea. With a 14K trailer it probably weighs 5k and you will end up with about 12K from the D4 when you add in chains, mud, fuel etc. You'll be a minimum of 2K over and maybe 3K overweight just on the trailer. I'd pay someone the money to haul it the 100 miles. 😉

It kind of comes down to how lucky you feel with the law.lol.. The trailer will most likely haul it but it wont do it leagally. We've hauled more then that on our 14,000 lb gvw trailer but it definatley wasn't legal and it also wasn't high speed, it was hooked on behind our wheel loader.

Maybe you can get lucky and find someone who needs a back haul to your area.

Ryan

It kind of comes down to how lucky you feel with the law.lol.. The trailer will most likely haul it but it wont do it leagally. We've hauled more then that on our 14,000 lb gvw trailer but it definatley wasn't legal and it also wasn't high speed, it was hooked on behind our wheel loader.

Maybe you can get lucky and find someone who needs a back haul to your area.

Ryan

Oh,
I forgot to mention,it's a bare tractor no blade,winch just tractor.
There's something I haven't thought about,the scales.
Do I have to stop??? Haulin d2's around never have????

The main thing to keep in mind, is what the end result will be if you have an accident whilst overloaded .. even if the accident was no fault of your own.

In many jurisdictions, this will cost you 100 times or more, what it would cost to pay a hauler .. and then there's the hassles of lawyers and courts, and the drawn-out legal arguments that you have to support .. 😞

If you're hauling short distances on country roads with little traffic - no problem. If you're hauling in traffic - you've got many likely problems, as the drunken/doped up/incompetent fool, overtakes you, and then runs into you, or cuts across your path, while he's rubber-necking your Cat .. 🙄

Even just getting a flat, and then having to change it on the shoulder, is often a guaranteed way of ensuring that some imbecile runs into your rig while you're stopped. Once you take to the highways, you need to ensure that you take every precaution against the fools who barely have control of the vehicle they're driving.