Posted by JD Seller on March 21, 2018 at 19:08:26 from (208.126.189.95):
In Reply to: Cement wheel weights posted by SVcummins on March 21, 2018 at 18:44:47:
Yes I have. I started farming with a Ford 6000. I needed rear weights and could not afford the factory weights. I took the rear casting off and laid it flat. I made two bands of smooth sheet steal kind of like the picture. I used heavy valley tin wrapped around three times. I pop riveted them together. The bands where small enough to allowed me to still reach the rack bolts on the power adjust wheels. I took four bolts that fit into the casting holes where weights would normally go. They stuck up about four inches into my bands/concrete. I then laid an old tarp against the casting. I then laid my bands on top of the tarp. I drove the bolts through the tarp. The tarp kept the concrete from sticking to the casting. I wrapped some fence wire around the four bolts to kind of make a reinforcement in the concrete. I hand mixed the concrete and poured the bands level full. I made sure to tamp the concrete down well. I let it dry 24 hours and lifted the first one off with a boom pole. I poured both weight in the one casting. The tarp stuck to the concrete but the casting was not effected. I made both weights for the cost of the Portland cement. I used creek sand and gravel. The weights weighted about 600 LBS. each. That made a world of difference to that tractor. After they had dried for a month or so my wife painted them white to match the castings. They looked good. they are still on the tractor to this day. I sold it in 1985. The fellow that bought it sold it later. The current owner just uses it in tractor rides but he put the weights back on it after he restored the entire tractor. He likes the way they look.
I would have poured them in 1976 or 77. So they have lasted 40 years or so now.
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