Re: Farmall 300 wheel ballast

Posted by Hugh MacKay on October 22, 2005 at 07:29:05 from (209.226.247.72):

In Reply to: Farmall 300 wheel ballast posted by redin on October 21, 2005 at 19:36:38:

redin: Not quite sure I agree with some of these guys. Some of the hardest pulls I've ever done with a tractor has been in the woodlot harvesting wood. I've seen my old 300 with 5 ton behind it on many ocasions. Secondly woodlots tend not to be smooth, having hummocks, cradle hills over tree roots. You start draging whole trees over that terrain, it will make tractor pulling look like hauling feathers. That calcium chlorides does two things for you, gives you traction and it gives you lower center of graviety ballast. That lower center of graviety ballast is very important when one wheel goes over one of those 15" high cradle hills.

There may be nothing wrong with your tubes, first I'd try installing new screw in portion of the valve stems and then pump the tires. There is nothing wrong with calcium chloride, so long as you don't have leaks. It also takes a lot of cast iron weights to replace that chloride and they still don't give that low center of graviety.

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