help transporting a cat D6

How wide is it? If you aren't going to be over 102" wide, you aren't over-width.

How tall is it? What is your deck height? If it won't be over 13' 6" tall while riding on your trailer, you aren't over-height.

What's your tare weight? If the D6 is 38K, as long as your tare weight is below 42K you won't be over-weight.

5-6 chains ought to be sufficient. Cross 'em in the front & rear to keep the equipment centered. One more across any accessory (i.e. blade, bucket, etc.). If it looks like it needs more, use more...no such thing as too much chain.

One other consideration if using a step deck: Just because there may be a way to load the equipment onto the step at the shipper doesn't mean there will be a way to get the equipment back down to ground level at the receiver. That would be a good thing to find out BEFORE you get there...

 

Another thing you should think about if your step is aluminum with an aluminum deck the tracks on a dozer or any tracked machine will straight tear the deck up if you have wood you will be fine but aluminum decking does not like tracks. Also cross chaining is by far the best but it cuts the rating of your chains in half so if you have 12000 lb rated chains they are only worth 6000 lbs so you have to use two chains. You get your permits from each state that you will be going thru or you can use a permit service. And be sure that you have oversize banners and flags before you load.

 

The rule I usually use when hauling equipment is to make sure that I put enough chains to hold 1.5 times the weight of the machine. So if your chains and booms are rated at 5500 lbs I would use 10 chains. I know that sounds like a lot, but I've never had a machine come off the trailer. Also like pedigreed bulldog said, you must have a chain over the blade and over the rippers as well. The blade and rippers must be all the way down, touching the deck. Also I was told by dot in texas that its illegal to leave the key In the machine while transporting it.

 

I use a permit service for all my os/ow loads, i receive these loads via my email then print them out.

i would also like to suggest picking up the OS/PILOT car directory from one of the TS, it will give you traveling times allowed, escort req. light and flag req. / sizes.

 

One thing I will add is to protect your decking get some old tires to run over. Even wood decks get torn up from tracks. When you are not centered and try moving that dozer on the deck och! Get lined up before you run it up on the trailer.

 

When we move our D6 20-30 miles we dont even chain it down, but your supposed to have 6 chains minimum. Those newer nice step decks are not really built for hauling dozers. You can do it , but its hard on the trailer!

 

Thats intelligent. What if in those 20 to 30 miles it tips over on a passing car? What will you do then?

 

Have to get a new dozer I guess!