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Craig45

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I have a New Holland with a front end loader. The rear tires are loaded but it still seems to me to be a little lite in the rear when I pick up something heavy. Any ideas on a easy way to add weight to the three point hitch without too much cost would be appreciated. I've thought about a box of concrete bolted to the hitch but think it might swing around too much. Thanks
 
A concrete box /barrel would be cheapest. Adjust your sway limiters(chains,bars,stops....) to limit sway/movement.Also,think seriously about liquid ballast.Something about liquid works bettet than an equal 'solid'/add on wt.
 
Well simplest - cheapest - easiest to try would be some sort of barrel of water. You could see how it would help things. 55 gallons ought to weigh about 450 lbs.
 
Easiest, of course, is to just put on you're heaviest 3 point implement. Doesn't work so well if you're in close quarters, though.

Classic method is a 3 point hitch drawbar through a barrel, rig up a top link, then pour barrel full of concrete.
 
they make 3 point i guess they would be rock boxes, run a piece of steel through the middle and then add suitcase weights
 
I recently had Rim Guard added to my rear tires. It"s made of beet juice so it is not corrosive or damaging to the ground or animals if it is spilled. I added 1000# for $350 installed.
 
I'm wondering that since the fluid in the tires does't seem to be enough that maybe, just maybe your biting off more then your tractor can chew and you need a bigger tractor... Not putting you/your tractor down but what size tractor are we talking here and what are you doing that's causing the concern?

Casey in SD
 
This is a TC25D with a 5" loader. Could be I am trying to lift too much with this tractor. But it is the only loader I have.
 
Do you have a rear 3 point attachement that can weigh it down.?
If not then go get a box blade, heavy and they work nice on them gravel drives.
 
(quoted from post at 12:20:03 11/15/13) Do you have a rear 3 point attachement that can weigh it down.?
If not then go get a box blade, heavy and they work nice on them gravel drives.
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I made this wt box from an old 3.5 cu ft refrig and poured it full of concrete and some metal to 3 pt. It weighs about 450-475 lbs. It's tucked in close and doesn't get in the way. Got about $25 in it and adds the ballast needed for the fel and I have rim guard in tires.
 
This is how I add weight and by doing so it helps the back blade do better. 6-85lbs suit case weight and a wheel weight off a JD D on the center link hook up plus the blade it self is a heavy duty one
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That is smart.
I have seen the weight boxes filled with gravel or sand so that it can be emptied if needed.
 
You don't have R-4 tires on it by chance do you??If you do then ALMOST nothing will help,if I take my hoe off it is helpless,even with 16.9 tires loaded and 900# of cast wheel weights.
 
I already had pallet forks, my buddy was pouring concrete and i had a barrel. One of the drivers said a full 55 gallon barrel weighs around 1000lbs. We cut the top third off it, stuck a piece of chain in it(for loading into my truck) and laying down fits perfectly in the pallet forks. It makes it a lot easier to get the weight on and off.
 
I have built a couple of barrels filled with concrete. 3/4 a barrel works best. just poke a 7/8 rod through about the middle. then a 2 1/2 pipe out the top the same distance as one of your tools. Don't forget a hitch out the back, I welded all three together in the middle. I just took them to the nearest redi-mix plant and left it there and they were kind enough to fill it with left over concrete.
 
Neighbor has just that, a box with blocks so he can lift big round bales.

I've seen some use a brush hog for ballast.
 
Any kind of weights bolted to a 3PH drawbar. I've also seen barbells, excercise machine weights, barrels full of steel punch out slugs, boxes full of old batteries. On 1 mower, I filled a box with old 3 bolt cable clamps. On another we found a bunch of old track shoes off of a scrapped excavator, bolted them together, and to the rear end. Whatever you have in cheap abundance!
 
Here's what I did for a three point weight. I made a 24" square box out of old scrap lumber, hung the three point hitch parts inside with the two bottom link pins sticking out the side and the top link parts sticking out the top, all welded together in the middle. (use your own design, preferably so it'll work on cat 2 Quick hitch) Then I dropped it off at the local Redi Mix plant and told them if they have any extra in a truck, just pour it in sometime. A couple of days later it was filled with crete free of charge. I did that in 1973 and I still use it today. I weighed it on a neighbor's wagon scale and it weighs approximately 1300 LB. I call it my 'poor man's front assist'. LOL Jim
 
Cast weights on the rims.
Fluid in the tires.
Set of spikes on the three point with a big bale on back.
Good set of tire chains.
If that doesn't do it a forklift mast on the three point works well, add all the weight you want or have that way.
If that still doesn't do it you need to use a bigger tractor.
 
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