"Adding weight to the rear tires takes zero weight off the front axle." That part is true. Rear ballast in tires or wheel weights doesn't transfer weight off the front axle.
By keeping the rear wheels on the ground, you can pick up for weight with front loader and that can increase the weight the weight on front axle. Actually if you loader can lift enough so your rear wheels come off the ground, All the weight of the tractor will be transferred to the front axle. SO REAR BALLAST IN TIRES DOES NO GOOD AT TRANSFERING WEIGHT OFF FRONT AXLE. So in a way, the weight on the front axle is increased, but not by the rear ballast.
I have made 6 75# concrete weights that I can put on a 2 inch pipe. I pick up the pipe up with the back hook of my terramite. Depending on where I position the rear bucket, extending the back hook away from the tractor, 450# can transfer all the weight off my front end, tractor does a wheelie. All the weight of the tractor is transferred to the rear wheels.
If I'm working in the woods and need to transfer weight off the front axle, I can pick up a log with back hook, it works great especially if I'm lifting a log with the front bucket.
So picking up a log with the front bucket can put all the weight of the tractor on the front wheels, lifting my rear wheels off the ground. And the opposite is also true, lifting a log with the rear bucket on a backhoe can lift the front of the tractor off the ground, transferring all the weight on the rear wheels.
Ballast in tires and wheel weights do nothing to transfer weight. This is your junior high physical science lesson for the day. Test on Monday.
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