How to transport a carrier

[Jordan Baker]

Easiest way I hbe ever used is a flatbed tow truck. Drop the ramp down to load. Drive up to the ramp and park the carrier just onto the end. Then use the winch to pull it up. The deck gets leveled out again. Use big hooks and just hook onto the rear axle of the carrier. Winch the carrier till the chains are tight at the back and the nose is pulled down. Then cross chain at the the front. Voila loaded and secured within 15min.

[Robin Craig]

I feel compelled to chime in here. If it saves one life then it is worth it.

I have been involved in trucking heavy equipment and MVs for a while now.

I have learned a lot of lessons.

The biggest lessons are:-

1 Steel tracks on any kind of metal surface is a recipe for a Darwin award.

2. Loading with haste is a recipe for a Darwin award. Its easy to arrive first, at the cemetery.

3. Loading without a mate or ground guide is to be avoided.

4. Trust your spidey senses, if it doesn't feel right then get out and check again.

We have bull dozers and excavators and tracked MVs. Honestly, if you are new to carriers they will bite you large if you don't watch out. There was a well known carrier neath death incident that another forum participant recalls differently so I wont drag that one out again but I was a direct witness and I saw death coming fast.

We use old snow mobile tracks as an interface and never load without them, period.

Pushing anything uphill is obviously fraught with danger. Pulling under control is the preferred method. Massive overkill in hardware is always my desire.

Shown here is an excavator loading a carrier going off the property and a tilt and load recovering the same vehicle a few months before. It has been shown before, I realise.

R

[Asbjørn]

This is what I had to do to get enough room for the carrier and a M5 half-track. The carrier had no problems climbing the higher part of the trailer under it's own power.

[eddy8men]

I've had problems loading a carrier on a small plant trailer with steel ramps, and it slips and slides like it's on ice.
I also tried to load a centaur on a low loader with another tank pushing and it was an abortion from the start, luckily a fella from a nearby farm turned up with a 13 ton excavator and pushed it on in 10 minutes under control and safely.

you live and learn

rick

[RichardT10829]

Asbjorn, not sure I would be happy about my carrier being loaded like that, there being a large load isolated over a few pins, for a fair duration.... Should have at least put something under the track to spread the load (in my humble opinion of course)