The only purpose to adding front weight to a 2WD is to keep the front end down firm enough to maintain steering control. That's why pullers do it... They get plenty of rear weight from the transfer sled and their pull point. The classic example of a poorly ballasted tractor in field conditions would be a ~100 HP 2WD with a 4 or 5 bottom mounted plow. If you load the front down to carry the plow you've got half a ton or more weight hanging there. When you drop the plow in the ground.... you've got half a ton of weight driving two silly little tires into the ground and the back ones spinning trying to push them anywhere. The MFWD tractor still requires the same weight to carry the plow... but the weight distribution works out somewhere between 50/50 and 40/60 front/rear which is near an optimal ballast to get maximum pull from a MFWD tractor. 2WD's make nice museum pieces...
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Today's Featured Article - Good As New - by Bill Goodwin. In the summer of 1995, my father, Russ Goodwin, and I acquired the 1945 Farmall B that my grandfather used as an overseer on a farm in Waynesboro, Georgia. After my grandfather’s death in 1955, J.P. Rollins, son of the landowner, used the tractor. In the winter 1985, while in his possession the engine block cracked and was unrepairable. He had told my father
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