Am I nuts or was he???

At an auction yesterday a guy paid $140 a set ( times 5 ) for solid rear wheel weights for the letter series. Am I nuts or is that what weights go for these days?! Split weights that had all been welded on brought $75 for each piece. When I get my rim's fixed I'm putting calcium in them rather than pay that. Guess I'm just cheap. ...Randy

I have seen rear weights for the letter series go for about $50 a pop here locally (western KY). Front weights are WAY higher! I don't do much with split weights to notice their prices.

I get 125.00 a pair here all the time. Filling with calcium wont seem like the cheap route if one leaks and you have to fix the tire and/or rim. You will wish you had paid for the weights. Just another thought, if you are already standing around an auction and you need the weights, paying $15.00 to $40.00 extra today when the pickup is going home already works out the same or better than making a special trip somewhere else....or worse yet, losing a whole additional productive day at another auction for a set you may or may not be able to buy.

Here rear full circle weights are usually $30 to $35 each.

The best way to check for prices is the call a few yards to see what they get. I watched for months for a pair of front wheel weight for my M and ended up paying 40$ apiece for them plus lots of shipping. I would gladly paid $ 100 a set at an auction. Rear wheel weights are in dedmand also. I also agree on not having to have calcium in the tires. Causes lots of problems. Henry

Weights are bringing 50 cents to 1 dollar a pound, so the prices are not out of line. If you can get them for $35 each, buy as many as your pickup can carry.

Weights vs. fluid... On larger tires you can get far more weight from fluid than a reasonable number of iron weights.

A 13.6x38 tire, which is arguably one of the most common tire sizes due to the popularity of the H and M size tractors, holds 57 gallons of fluid for approximately 600lbs of ballast. (ballaststarDOTcom is my source of info)

That's equivalent to FOUR complete circles of weights PER TIRE.

A 20.8x38 tire holds 1500lbs of ballast. That's TEN circles of iron weights.

The break even point is on a Farmall Cub. An 8.3x24 tire holds 140lbs of fluid, and weights are roughly 140-150lbs each. Adding one set of weights is equivalent to filling the tires with fluid here.

You can get fluids that are non-corrosive, like beet juice or windshield washer fluid. But, think about this: It took 40-50-60 years of hard daily use for the calcium chloride to cause problems. The way we use these tractors nowadays, fluid in a good tube will last you as long as you care to have it last.

I picked up a pile (8?) of rear wheel weights last year for $50 - or $6.25 each.

also I if you have ever messed with tire that had fluid leak its really ucky. Worth the price of the weights not to haave to mess with it. Bernie Steffen

Generally tractors around here will have filled tires and 1-2 sets of weights. That would mean on a typical M, you would need to hang 5-6 sets of weights. How would you go about doing that?

About $50 each, or $75 a set here in N. Alabama is what I've seen.
mike