How do I get equipment from the shop to my farm?

[Richard I]

I’ve tried every trailer seems like, skid steer can’t load anything (understandably)

I don’t know how to activate the ramps on my flatbed trailer mod. For the low loader, I can drive my tractor up there but not the skidsteer. What is the proper way to haul vehicles?

[the.lovewyrm]

Can't test it right now, but I think there's a low loader/lowboy for semi trucks (which you can tow with a regular Tractor if you have a dolly adapter) which should be able to transport virtually anything.
I think it's blue...

There are mods that make shops deliver equipment for a fee, too, but that either diminishes or enhances roleplay, whichever your perspective on it is.

Also, if you are talking about the same low loader as I, the blue one you drive on by detaching the lastmost tool part (aka, the end)
And the one that you can extend and contract then: You can transport a skid steer loader with that one, as well.
You just have to drive onto the ramp carefully

[Richard I]

Originally posted by the.lovewyrm:

Can't test it right now, but I think there's a low loader/lowboy for semi trucks (which you can tow with a regular Tractor if you have a dolly adapter) which should be able to transport virtually anything.
I think it's blue...

There are mods that make shops deliver equipment for a fee, too, but that either diminishes or enhances roleplay, whichever your perspective on it is.

Also, if you are talking about the same low loader as I, the blue one you drive on by detaching the lastmost tool part (aka, the end)
And the one that you can extend and contract then: You can transport a skid steer loader with that one, as well.

How do you detach individual parts? Only thing I know how to do is attach and detach the trailer from the truck
You just have to drive onto the ramp carefully

[the.lovewyrm]

Ah, it's a bit unintuitive how detaching the arse end is done, yeah.

Here's how the setup looks on a Tractor with a dolly adapter.

If you look to the top left of your screen, you will see a Tractor icon.
And if you have a dolly adapter, and attached to the dolly adapter you have the blue low loader, then you will have three little square icons to the right of the Tractor.

A bit like so. the small o's represent the trailers, the big O the tractor
Oooo

If you press 'switch tool' which is by default, bound to the "G" keyboard key, then press "G" until the last trailer is highlighted.
Like:
Oooo

If you then press the "Detach/Attach" key, which is by default the "Q" key, then you will drop the arse end of the low loader, and it will lower to ground level, and reveal two blue ramps to drive onto.

If you drive onto them carefully, then even a skidloader can make it up there.

Afterwards you simply reattach the trailer.
Drive to your destination, and detach it again.
Drive your vehicle off the low loader, and then attach it again, ready to drive to the next place to pick up a vehicle.

Hope that helps.

[the.lovewyrm]

I made a small video for it.

I suck at editing so, no zoom onto the top left at the beginning, lol.
So please look at the top left corner with the small icons at the start of the video yourself, haha.
I also suck at reversing, so, don't mind the jump cut :P

https://files.catbox.moe/85rm4a.mp4

[Richard I]

Originally posted by the.lovewyrm:

I made a small video for it.

I suck at editing so, no zoom onto the top left at the beginning, lol.
So please look at the top left corner with the small icons at the start of the video yourself, haha.
I also suck at reversing, so, don't mind the jump cut :P

https://files.catbox.moe/85rm4a.mp4

Thank you man, I didn’t know lowboys came apart like that.

I can hall about anything now I guess. I can haul harvesters and stuff too? Or do I have to drive those back because of their size?

[the.lovewyrm]

Originally posted by GR1FF:

Originally posted by the.lovewyrm:

I made a small video for it.

I suck at editing so, no zoom onto the top left at the beginning, lol.
So please look at the top left corner with the small icons at the start of the video yourself, haha.
I also suck at reversing, so, don't mind the jump cut :P

https://files.catbox.moe/85rm4a.mp4

Thank you man, I didn’t know lowboys came apart like that.

I can hall about anything now I guess. I can haul harvesters and stuff too? Or do I have to drive those back because of their size?

It's been a while since I used them but you should be able to haul a combine with it.

You can extend the loader too. If you select the trailer the same way as I showed in the video, then you will get a mouse (or controller icon) in the top left of the help box (with F1)
I think in the case of the loader it's left mouse button by default, you can then drag it left and right while holding down the mouse to make the lowboy longer or shorter.
Longboy and shortboy, hehe.

With that you really can transport virtually anything. As long as you get it on the platform.
Doesn't even need to be perfect, just good enough.

[the.lovewyrm]

I tried it with the new holland combine, and it worked out.
https://imgur.com/a/CGBioSi

I also tried attaching a header trailer to the lowboy but that did not work.
So you have to transport the header on a trailer separately.
(unless you want to risk bumping into stuff , while keeping it attached on the combine)

Edit:
Or maybe it's possible to attach the header trailer to the combine, and then put the combine + header trailer on the lowboy, with enough extension.

[Hoghead]

I use the store delivery mod...V 1.5.0.0 And change location where needed.
Get the store to deliver your purchases for a fee.

-Location is set based on the player's position.
-A delivery charge of 2.5% per item cost is applied to your purchases when using delivery.
-All deliveries are confirmed by a special sound at the time of purchase.

Controls

-Hold "Left Shift" + "Left Alt" to view the marker on the ground which represents the location.
-Hold "Left Shift" + "Left Alt" and press "S" to set the location. (A sound will play and the marker will flash once.)
-Hold "Left Shift" + "Left Alt" and press "R" to reset the location back to default (the store).

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

+1 For Store Deliveries - makes life a lot easier!

[the.lovewyrm]

It is a pretty cool mod, yeah.
But as I hinted at, it can diminish or increase roleplay.
On one hand: Deliveries are quite realistic, at least for the most part.
But on the other hand, it's also pretty much blanket.

That said, it's an excellent mod, so using it if one wants is fine since it isn't buggy or anything.
In short.
If you want delivery, it's a great mod.

Still, it's good to have your own equipment. After all, sometimes you need to just move things around.