Need some advice as this is the 1st time I've pulled a tractor on a trailer. Tractor is a Kubota MX5100 4x4, specs say 3620 weight, will have a 925# disk attached and the tractor has a front end loader at 1300#, total rig just a hair over 5800#. Plan on tie down at each corner from the axles with chains. What weight rating should I use on the chains and binders. I have 2 of the lever chain binders rated at 5600# each and was gonna buy 12' sections of chain from tractor supply rated 6600# and use and additional 2 5600# lever binders. I'm hauling this thing in the interstate through Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee for about 100miles and don't want and trooper issues.

I've never towed really much of anything, but these to me make a lot of sense.
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200451249_200451249

Are tire net tiedowns used for towing tractors?

You should be more than fine with what you described. I use either a 3/8" chain and binder or a ratchet strap when I pull my machines. On tractors I run the strap/chain through both front wheels across the trailer. Then do the same on the rears. So I end up with only (2) straps or chains at a time.

Since this is the first time you have pulled a tractor, be sure and leave yourself lots of room to stop, don't follow to close behind anyone, and plan ahead for any sudden moves (turns, traffic lights, etc..)

If you are using the swing style chain binders be sure and tie the ends down to the chains (or secure them with locks). This prevents the binders from coming open in the event the chain get slack. Sometimes slack can be caused by hitting a bump and the tires compressing some allowing slack in the chain.

If you don't tie everything down good the highway patrol might get you. My buddy got pulled over the other day and they looked at everything on his trailer. They could have written him up on several things but allowed him to correct them and drive on. He was also in commercial truck with CDL.

I haul my tractor 175 miles one way to and from Savannah,TN from Guntersville. I have two 12 foot 3/8 galvanized chains and 2 binders. One chain goes over the loader arms and the other thru the 3 point hitch arms. The one on front pulls straight down or slightly forward and the one on the back pulls backwards. Binders go on the driver side so they can be seen in the left mirror. I stop a couple of times on the way and check everything. I've been hauling stuff similar to this for 40 years or so, off and on.

That is how I do it. Except, I put the back chain through the rear wheels. I have never had one move. I do usually run a strap over the implement.

Do you have a trailer with brakes? If not leave a lot of time to stop.

Make sure your binders are on the drivers side. I think the law is like 1 chain for every 10 feet or something but I could be way off on that

Gotta have at least 1 brake axle and I do. Thinking about adding brakes to the other axle.

Georgia is the one that can be a pain. 4 chains and 4 binders heavy enough to do the job will keep you out of the courthouse.

Trailer has brakes but I'm used to pulling heavy stuff, travel trailer 8750# from California to Bama but this is a first of hauling a loaded trailer. Thanks for all the info guys, think I'll add a couple 10,000 # nylon ratchet straps to the front end loader and disk to makes sure each item is tied down even though they are all attached.

sweet tractor there. I want one of those myself!! U get a new one?

Pretty sure each implement is required to have a chain.even if attached to the tractor.may be wrong though but that is what I was told by a trooper.

Yup, bought it new. Just a hair over $26,000 out the door and Kubota finance 0% for 5 years. Added another $1200 to the loan for insurance from Kubota cause State Farm didn't do tractor insurance.

State Farm does mine and it covers at the club and at home, plus being pulled between. May be a state to state thing though.

If you haven't bought them yet I can't stress enough that you oughta consider ratchet binders. Only thing that can hurt you quicker or worse than a flop style binder is a high lift jack.

I run a chain from one side, over the drawbar, back under and around the chain then to the other side of the trailer. When you cross the chain this way, it pulls on both sides equally. If you just run it across, you can be piano wire tight on the binder side and floppy on the other if the chain can't smoothly pass over whatever you're binding. Wrapping it in this way also prevents any side to side slide.

I've got a shackle through the draw bar and ill run the chain through it and hook back to the trailer then pull it tight with the tractor. Then ill hook one chain on the LF axle and bind it down with a ratchet binder. I haul tractors and equipment just about every weekend and that's about all I do. One thing I try to do is keep all my binders or ratchets for ratchet straps on the driver so you can always see them.

That's a good tractor, my dad has one and loves it. He has let me on it a couple times, but not a lot, scared I'll use it like my bulldozers I guess, lol. it's a stout little machine though.

Sounds like you have it all figured out. One question though - do you have water in your tires? That adds quite a bit of weight. Good luck with it.

I towed mine to the shop yesterday and it was bouncing and hopping and shaking, truck struggling....I was scared to death...but got it to shop somehow.

I am going to pay someone to tow it back for me once fixed.

Soounds like a heck of a price there!! Enjoy it, u should be happy with that!! Where u get that good of a deal from if you don't mind me asking?

Insured my tractor through Kubota.....I also run a chain across the front part of my cutter and attach it to the frame of the trailer, then I drive the tractor forward till it takes the slack out of the chain. Just another safety measure, if you have to stop quickly, it can help keep the tractor from moving forward.