Posted on 05/14/2012 11:40:10 AM PDT by mamelukesabre
For complicated reasons I can’t get into, its got to be done by me personally.
Call a Wheel Estate mover (mobile home mover).
They can haul several times that weight on a bumper type hitch. They have the correct size balls for the job (in more ways than one).
Find a local guy and pay cash, probably get it done this afternoon.
sounds like a problem.
Make two trips?
Get someone else to haul on a proper rig?
Stay put?
Our a house mover.
Sounds like the perfect solution.
I am becoming increasingly concerned by your erratic posting recently.
Is there a rock solid friend you could talk this over with?
You have another problem. Ball hitches are not constructed to meet this large of a towing capacity.
hitch balls go up to 3 inches and larger.
and I make my own hitch receivers out of 3/4” plate.
Try U-Haul.
SnakeDoc
The ball may go that big, but you need a mounting platform to support accelerating and stopping that weight. Class IV receiver hitch is not going to do it.
You are probably talking about a mobile home type mover. Or some similar rated equipment.
That is an odd setup. Usually trailers like that have a pintel hitch in which case a tandem dump would pull it. I seriously doubt if you find a rental company that has that type of equipment. I have never seen one. A mobile home transfer company is probably your best bet. Most of those outfits don’t work everyday so you have a good chance of hiring one.
Had I triaxle cattle trailer once. Good luck keeping tires on it.
Class V hitches top out at 18,000 lbs. These are the type used for 2.5 & 3 inch balls.
http://www.etrailer.com/faq-hitchclasses.aspx
Oops should be “I had”
close enough
Probably not for a company owning the equipment and renting to individual users.
Good Luck!
Not being funny, you can move it with a BIG Ag tractor. You won’t go fast, but it will move the load, over about any kind of ground.
Have seen large house type structures moved slowly with large dually equipped 4X4 ag tractor.
Yeah, that’s the next project. Moving my other trailer with a pintel hitch. Then I’ve got another one with a Pin type hitch that is extremely large...probably not DOT legal anymore. I think they only use them on farm equipment now days.
You have other problems.
You need 10% (or more) of the weight on the hitch, otherwise it will wander all over the place unless you drive slowly.
Triple axle trailer, right? 7,500# axles? Tire sizes & condition?
Brakes? Stopping is ALWAYS a bigger problem than pulling.
Have you ever pulled a 10,000 trailer, let alone “estimated .. between 17500 and 22500 lbs”?
Do yourself and everyone else on the road a favor and hire someone with the equipment, insurance and experience. (easiest bet, go to a used mobile home transporter company. They will have the ball hitch on the back of their semi-tractor and are used to loads that size)
I’m not putting you down, I’m just an “old grouch who has been there, done that and scared myself doing it” type of guy. I once moved a 12’x16’ T&G wooded building that I rolled onto a U-haul car transporter using poplar logs as rollers. Lashed it down with come-alongs & chains, then pulled it a mile or so down a level country road at 10 mph using an RX4 Mazda station wagon.
Yeah, I know, “crazy is as crazy does”.
;-)
machines made of steel
big ones
” just can’t find a truck with the tow rating that has a bumper on it.”
You don’t know much about towing if you, one, built a heavy trailer without knowing what was going to tow it, and two, if you thought a bumper hitch would pull 10+ tons. Obviously, your knowledge of such matters is lacking since you also thought FR was the place to get an answer.
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