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I did a lot of farming with two tractors back in the 60s and 70s and used no weights a all. They were 560D and a 656D. These tractors both had 16.9x38 tires on rear and I had one set of duals I could use on either. These tractors never hauled many heavy loads on hard roads. The 560 pulled a forage harvester and wagon on the field a lot. In the early days I pulled a No.60- 4x16 plow with the 560. as well as a 14 foot vibra shank cultivator. The 656 on the other hand did a lot of haybine, baler, drilling, corn planting and 5x16 semimount plow. In my opinion in the field and only in the field more rubber on the ground will do just as well with less soil compaction. Pulling on hard ground, roadways etc. is a completely different story. My Farmall 300 pulled wagons to the barn, 16' silage wagons and 22' hay wagons. I had 13.6x38 on it and loaded to the limit with chloride and two set of wheel weights. More rubber will just not give more traction on that hard road. I later bought a 1066 with 18.4x38 duals that were never off. The tractor had no added weights solid or liquid. It pulled an NH 890 forage harvester with 20' highway dump trailers behind it, a 25' field cultivator with crumbler, a 12 ton manure spreader or a 20' disk. If I were you and you didn't say, but using an M as an only tractor with no chloride, I would use one set of wheel weights and fabricate racks just ahead of your axle carriers on each side for front end suit case weights. These are quick to put on and off, when you need them or don't need them. If you don't already have weights they will not cost you any more. If you do this, let me know in 5 years what percentage of the time you run without weights, other than the wheel weights. By the way I am not suggesting I'm right, the soil I farmed was very subject to soil compaction.
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