Rear weight ballast

[Soundguy]

Here's one I made for about 15$ worth of materials and hardware, including an old cattle feed tub, and spare drawbar. Just had to buy the cement, some bolt/nut fasteners, and then drill holes in the toplink 'flat' stock metal I used.

Soundguy

[schole]

I made Soundguy's concrete ballast (previous post) this spring in about 20-30 min. What a difference!! Shawn

[BobG_in_VA]

"spare drawbar..."?? Up here they go for $30 a piece or more. I bought a Cat 2 and it ran me over $40. Send all your spares north....bobg in va

[scott_vt]

Right on Soundguy, I did the same thing with a 35 gal drum and a bunch of rocks and concrete. I think its close to 700lbs.

scotty

[nobull1]

Made one up myself out of a 55 gallon drum, filled with concrete. I already had my tires loaded and found with the thousand pound round bales up front it just didn't feel right. Now with loaded tires as well as the counterweight it feels safe.

[oldgoat2]

Just slapped this together this weekend. It is 2 John Deere D wheel weights and a bailer flywheel bolted together. The shaft is reduced down twice to 7/8ths for the arms with the shoulders of the reducer forming the inside stop. A couple pipe collars hold the weights in the middle. It is balanced so it is easy to drop off in the shop and roll around out of the way. Another nice thing is if I forget to pick it up, it will just roll along behind until I notice it. It weighs 500# total. I think 300-400 would have been best but this is what I had. Ag tractor dealers have weights like these in piles with nowhere to go if anyone is looking.

[Dale_TB]

I have a Kioti DK 35 and wanted at least as much weight as the scraper box purchased with the tractor. I used a fiberglass container about 3 ft. high, 1.5 Ft. wide and 1.5 ft. deep. Placed a three point hitch bar horizontally about mid-hight with some rebar to add unit strength and a heavy flat bar protruding through the box to serve as a ball hitch for towing. Filled with concrete this weighs about 700 lbs. and works great and allows working in tight spaces without the bulk of the stock box. I'd send a picture but I'm a novice at this stuff and am not sure how to handle it.

[KubotainNH]

I need to make 1 also, thinking of filling an old washer drum with concrete. How do you know how much concrete will make a certain weight? Will it be close to the weight of the bag of mix or a certain percentage heavier?

[RFB]

Concrete weighs 140 - 150 per cubic foot depending on mix...145 is a good average to use for calcs.

For cube type container, multiply your container's L x W x H in inches, then divide by 1728 to get the number of cubic feet.

For a round tank the formula is 3.1417 x Radius² x Depth
= Cubic Feet

[Stew]

First post after a couple of months absorbing as much as I can.

I calculated for a buddy the other day a 55 gallon drum of concrete came in right around a 1000 lbs. Concrete weighs about 19 lbs per gallon.

Hope this helps.