Transporting Farm Equipment and Apples

The wrecker just seems asinine and severely limits your apple hauling capacity and very expensive.

The sliding axle equipment hauler is nice and easy to load, great for picking up dead equipment. But is expensive and heavy and you probable need a wet kit on the tractor.

A step deck with ramps is more then enough to 10K tractors. Spayer? Depends what you got for sprayer. The down side the the step deck is ramps are going to cost you more then you think and it is much easier for an employee to screw up loading crap with ramps.

A cheap flat will work out also if your careful.

As a youngster we used to load equipment up in the field just by backing a flatbed into a ditch and driving the equipment up the dirt ramp. We were cheep and never had an issue.

Obviously you could tote the 10K tractors with just a 1-ton truck and farm trailer.

 

Not sure what your going to pay for that trailer. But couldn't you find a cheap old tractor with a cab and get another sprayer? I am assuming that you are using a smaller pull behind sprayer. Also a little confused if you are already hauling with your own 18 wheeler or hiring out.

 

find a bank/build a dirt ramp @ both locations and just drive your equipment on and off your flatbed.

 

How often do you need to move the equipment per year?

 

If you already have a truck and a flat this is definitely the way to go. Cost little to nothing

 

Or a trailer with a beaver tail/ramp. I also like the idea of a dirt pile for a ramp. You can put them anywhere and they work great.

 

You could do a flat. And build a berm dock. When I load Humvees , it's a earthen mound with a rail road ties face or concrete face to back into. Them Humvee goes up earth works on to trailer. They do that for steps too.

Ramps would work on step too.

 

You could get a Landoll sliding axle trailer with a pony motor. The trailer new is in the high 70k range with the pony motor. I have the Landoll with a pony motor but it's the trailer with a tail. The Axles slide about 5 ft and the 15 ft tail drops down giving a nice load angle. Either style trailer is nice and I have used both.