Posted by George Marsh on December 14, 2013 at 09:45:52 from (50.121.6.110):
In Reply to: new iron posted by sammydwm on December 13, 2013 at 21:46:02:
Neighbor has a Massey, about 55 hp, with front loader to move round bails. He make a ballast weight for 3 pt to hold back wheels down.
My toy backhoe is only 2 wheel drive. I made a bar-bell set of weights for back hook to transfer weight to back wheels when I'm lifting heavy things.
I've seen people leave brush hog in tractor for ballast.
In my opinion, even if you had 4 wheel drive, you would still want rear ballast extended behind rear wheels (not ballast in tires) to transfer weight from front wheels to rear wheels.
Let's say you lift 2000 lb with loader. That not only puts 2000 lb on front tires, you transfer another 2000 lb from rear wheels putting a total of 4000 lb on front axle. Not a good idea.
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