Re: double wheel weights on farmall h good or bad?

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 11, 2005 at 03:12:29 from (216.208.58.164):

In Reply to: double wheel weights on farmall h good or bad? posted by lekander883 on December 10, 2005 at 20:30:02:

lekander: It really doesn't matter what the tractor is, there are three kinds of weight; fluid in tires, wheel weights and counter weights.

The very best to give stability and lower the center of graviety is fluid in rear tires. That combined with rear wheel tread of 72" or more will give stability from upset. Wheel weights will help as well but that weight is not as close to ground as the fluid, thus does not lower the center of graviety as much as fluid. You may well say the question I asked was about traction. Well my friend, you have a greater problem than traction. If the rear wheels are loosing traction, that indicates not enough weight on rear wheels, and if you have to ask if worth the effort, then may I suggest you are not far away from upset and very likely serious injury.

The very best weight for loader work is counter weight. 1000 lbs. right on the drawbar, about the same weight as you put in loader bucket. Bear in mind this counter weight will not lower the center of graviety by much.

Having said all this, I tend to agree with gene bender, H with a loader not much of a round bale mover. In fact I will go one step further by suggesting you are an accident looking for a place to happen.

Personally, I took my last front end loader off a tractor in 1978. A tractor is one of the poorest engineered vehicles, front end loaders were ever placed on. I know folks will say, I can't afford to have two machines. Well I could never afford non productive machines. I have never seen anything more usless for field work than a conventional farm tractor with a loader hanging out front. If you are only going to do loader work, why would anyone want the many properties of a tractor. By the the way my last tractor loader was a IH 2000 mounted on a Farmall 560. I replaced it with a 40 hp skidsteer that would run circles around 560 even on round bales. The 560 went back to doing what it does best, drawbar and pto work.

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