Re: Weight ratios

Posted by redforlife on December 28, 2022 at 09:09:55 from (174.213.212.151):

In Reply to: Weight ratios posted by 550Doug on December 28, 2022 at 06:40:24:

I'd say 2WD tractors in general, would be
the other way around. 60 percent of weight
on back axle.

You could verify by driving tractor to a
scale (such as a COOP scale), and placing
one axle at a time on the scale. Weigh
axles separately. Your findings would be
real close (IF) the scale don't have graded
roadway (ramps) leading up to and exiting
the scale. Just a nice level drive through
and over the scale would render really
accurate readings. Of course it wouldn't,
if your on ramped roadway. Parked uphill to
weigh the front. And downhill to weigh the
back. If you have to fight that scenario,
then park your off axle as close to the
scale as possible, without being on it.

Now, tractor pulling tractors, different
story!!! Those guys will rig up thier
tractors, so they weigh MUCH differently.
Probably not uncommon for thier front axle
to weigh much more than the rear. But, they
are playing a different ball game. Pulling
the sled, and the angle of the hook chain,
adds weight to the rear of the tractor
(when they are pulling). So they often
transfer alot of weight to the front to
keep the front down. What they do, varies a
little bit by what rules they are playing
by, and what weight class they are pulling
in. Weight placement is an art to those
people, and they take it serious. They are
on a different wave link than the rest of
us. What they do, is also a little
irrelevant to the rest of us. They are not
trying to accomplish things with a loader,
or mounted equipment, or using the factory
draw bar. Also not using a library of
various equipment. They are just using that
one tractor to do nothing but competition
pulling. Every hook is the same, except for
being on a different track, and slightly
different environment conditions.

All around tractor use and competition
tractor pulling, is by far not the same
thing. So, you likewise want to keep those
2 ideas separated. Although, it is a good
idea to keep tractor properly weighted for
what you are doing. You definately are not
going to want your loader tractor set up to
be a tractor pulling tractor. That's just
not going to work. And that's what I am
getting at.

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