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PullinM, It really doesn't matter where you put your weights. Sort of. All you are doing is moving your center of gravity of the tractor. You just have to assume that you are going to have the front of the tractor off the ground. At this point, the rear wheels become a pivot point. It's a simple statics problem from here. Moments and lever arms. If your front wheels are on the ground, then anything ahead of the front wheels actually takes weight OFF the rear wheels... In other words, if you have 1000 pounds to play with and put 500 on the nose and 500 on the rear, there is a magic point somewhere near the middle of the tractor that if you put all 1000 pounds there, it would be exactly the same. Leverage = Mass * distance from pivot The lesson here being that if you put it really far from the pivot point, and you misjudge the weight by a hundred pounds, it makes a lot bigger difference than if you miss it by 100 pounds in the center... Same goes for your drawbar, the higher it is, the more it wants to lift the nose. The longer it is, the more it wants to lift the nose... It's all a Weight*distance thing. Keep track of your weight placement and your results.
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