Re: proper way to weight a tricycle Farmall

Posted by Bill Smith on January 05, 2004 at 10:58:17 from (63.147.130.17):

In Reply to: proper way to weight a tricycle Farmall posted by Wayne M Kittler on January 04, 2004 at 16:13:28:

I agree with what has been said. Adding weight for stability and traction is what adding the weight is all about. Of coarse if you add a super amount of weight it is going to cut your power down, thus wasting gas. This would happen if you have added weight beyond the point of helping traction. If you are adding weight to enable you to go hill climbing, I think you got the wrong idea. If you are adding weight to assist you in what you are already doing, then you got the right adea. I would not advise adding weight to only one side of tractor. That would in itself, make the tractor off balanced wich is what you want to avoid. Adding weight to front is only nescisary for carrying a work load on the rear of tractor, or for heavy pulling. If you can get by with minimal weight, I would advise bolt on rear wheel weights (fluid loaded rear wheel's ussually become leaky and corrosive to rims). If you are adding more than 2 to 3 wheel weights per wheel, you are probably better advised to use the fluid in the tires (you can acquire much more weight by using the fluid). In fact, you might not have to even use the wheel weights if you go with the fluid. Remember that wheel weights are centered on axel (not lowering center of gravity) and fluid will slightly lower center of gravity if properly filled to roughly 1 inch below top of rim when rear wheel is completely inflated. Adding weight evenly to both sides of tractor will aid in stability, but to gain even more stability set your front and rear wheel's in the widest position. Remember that having the rear wheel's slid out to the end of axel increases the strain on the axel created by the weight and torque of the tractor itself.

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