Counterweight "weight"

[PatMcD]

I'm trying to avoid loading the tires just so I can avoid doing too much rut damage to the fields when they are soft in the Spring.
My loader capacity is listed at 2900lbs, so this counterweight will be less than half. I don't know; we'll see how it works out. If I have to load the tires, so be it.

 

[RG1]

In my post above, I didn't mean that the 3 pt weight should be equal to the loader's lift capacity. It should be equal (just for starters) to what the manual says the loader weighs when parked off the machine.

 

[olllotj]

A 50 horse tractor will rut a soft field loaded or not. Personally, I have a bigger issue with my unloaded front tires rutting than my loaded rears.

 

[GManBart]

The counterweight for my R4047H is right around 1,400lbs (started as a block of steel that weighed exactly 1,300lbs) and it's not too much. I can max the loader (unloaded tires) to the point the relief valve opens, and it still won't lift the rear tires.

I think you'd be fine with 1,200lbs.