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Ballasting or weights on tractor

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E.B. Haymakin'

03-23-2007 06:53:07




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A publication out of a midwest college on agricultural tractors that the rear wheels should be weighted/ballasted to allow for some wheel slippage when unload pulling in the field to keep wear on the driveline down. It also recommends that depending on the field work to be done the weighting should be lessened, or increased. Would it be unwise to leave your weighting/ballasting at or about maximum, and not worry about wear on the driveline? I would get tired of fooling with the weights.

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Pathand

03-23-2007 12:23:59




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 Re: Ballasting or weights on tractor in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 03-23-2007 06:53:07  
I'm a small outfit and only small lots and use antique tractors ( JD & Farmall ) 50hp or less.I like wheel wieghts and only enough to keep slippage to a minumon. I repair rear tires on tractor and if i have to change it the rim is separate from center casting that wieght is attached to. What you will have to watch is the wieght of that hay wagon pushing and or baler. you may be able to pull it but you still have to stop it.Water?? I hope you live in warm climate

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buickanddeere

03-23-2007 09:41:29




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 Re: Ballasting or weights on tractor in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 03-23-2007 06:53:07  
Depends on the size of your business, crops, soil types, till/no till, herbicide or tillage weed control, radial or bias and is it a 1 tractor operation? Some operators use those 4x4x4 totes mounted on a fork lift pallet. They drain the liquid ballast after the spring tillage and re-load it for fall ploughing. It's difficuilt to calculate crop losses, soil compaction and extra fuel consumption via eye,ear and the seat of the pants. On the other hand when measuring everything accurately in a labratory setting. The decrease in fuel consumption and increase in crop yields makes an hour bolting/unbolting weights pay very well.

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E.B. Haymakin'

03-23-2007 10:00:41




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 Re: Ballasting or weights on tractor in reply to buickanddeere, 03-23-2007 09:41:29  
I"m a one tractor operation, and will be resetting some hay lots only. Allan"s comment on the weight on the front end is also a serious thought. I actually run water in the rears, and I have an FEL on the tractor. I feel the weight is too heavy for a 42pto horse to pull in the field in addition to an implement. A neighbor runs weights on his 5610"s rears, and doesn"t like water. I don"t really like the weights since I work by myself, and don"t want to manage the weight with flats etc. I"ll probably take the FEL off, and leave my back fully ballasted. I just don"t want to have excessive weight, and wanted opinions on how others operated.

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Allan In NE

03-23-2007 10:23:12




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 Re: Ballasting or weights on tractor in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 03-23-2007 10:00:41  
Yep, I agree.

Get that loader off the front along with any weights. I like to run duals to spread the remaining tractor weight over a larger footprint area.

Stops compaction in my soil types.

Allan

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Don-Wi

03-23-2007 07:39:28




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 Re: Ballasting or weights on tractor in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 03-23-2007 06:53:07  
Like everyone else in the real world, we leave those rears alone. We generally leave the fronts alone too, the 1855 that we really got loaded down on the front for plowing does all the heavy tillage and the heavy feild work, and I'm not lifting 100+ lb. slabs on and off 2-5 times a year. We used to have a big chunk of concrete hanging between 4 weights (2 on either side) when that ws our plowing tractor. Now it's down to 5 suitcase weights to keep the front from bouncing so damn hard. My 1600 has 1 stacker ontop of the base, and the 165 now has a loader on it. The front end is really shot on that one.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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Allan In NE

03-23-2007 07:13:54




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 Re: Ballasting or weights on tractor in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 03-23-2007 06:53:07  
Yeah,

I leave the rears alone, but boy those front end weights come off/on as necessay depending on which heavy implement I have to haul around.

Don't like the extra wear on the front end, if I can help it.

Allan



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Lou

03-23-2007 07:05:33




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 Re: Ballasting or weights on tractor in reply to E.B. Haymakin', 03-23-2007 06:53:07  
It looks like you discovered the difference between a engineers opinion and the real world.



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rrlund

03-23-2007 07:25:48




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 Re: Ballasting or weights on tractor in reply to Lou, 03-23-2007 07:05:33  
Yup,them perfessers has got all them young bucks around to do their liftin for em.



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