Theory of rear ballast?

[vtsnowedin]

If I have to go down the slope, through the woods ,around the swamp and back up the town road to avoid crossing "Her Lawn" I will. I like sleepin indoors.

 

[jodebg]

New better half...one that wears overalls, using grease for eye shadow, and carries wrenches in
her evening bag! My kind of gal.

 

[jodebg]

Ditto..like to see your set up. Thanks.

This is probably not applicable to the larger tractors but for my fellow SCUT guys this is my solution. The tires on a SCUT are too small to really add effective weight by loading them plus once there you cannot adjust that weight. I made a rack that attaches with pins to my QH to hang suitcase weights. I have 500# in 10 50# increments. That way i have some adjustment room to not overload the rear axle. It works so well my next step is to devise a way to attach the same rack to the front end fro when I want the FEL off to counterbalance rear loads. My chipper almost lifts the front tires to the non-steering point even with the FEL on. This is probably not the answer for everybody that has a SCUT but works for me.

Ron

 

[vtsnowedin]

New better half...one that wears overalls, using grease for eye shadow, and carries wrenches in
her evening bag! My kind of gal.

Nope this one is just fine. Has her limits though, after 38 years I now know where most of them are. I mentioned a new set of harrows yesterday and I was looking for used. The look in her eye said that I ought to look real hard at used but not to consider any junk. And she didn't totally Harrumph! new.

 

[JerryK]

Nope this one is just fine. Has her limits though, after 38 years I now know where most of them are. I mentioned a new set of harrows yesterday and I was looking for used. The look in her eye said that I ought to look real hard at used but not to consider any junk. And she didn't totally Harrumph! new.

Problem is, that you never really know if they are pushing you to buy something to keep you happy....... pushing you to buy something so they can do the same...... or just something they can get half of in the very near future... [ ]

 

[vtsnowedin]

Problem is, that you never really know if they are pushing you to buy something to keep you happy....... pushing you to buy something so they can do the same...... or just something they can get half of in the very near future... [ ]

All three options are fine by me. In fact I'm behind on option two and need to get it in gear.

 

[LD1]

For a ballast box type that is in close to the tractor, I say 1 for 1. What ever the loader is rated to lift, thats about what you need. So a ~780# ballast.

For something that hangs farther back, you can get by with less, cause the same pound has more effect due to leverage

 

[rswyan]

In the manual for the B7800 there should be a maximum weight to be carried for the 3PH (there is for my B2910) - this is actually a little different than what the rated lift capacity is for the 3PH.

IIRC, it was 880 lbs but I'd check the manual to verify and be sure.

 

[franklin2]

I would think you could over do all this. Lots of weight in the back and loaded very heavy in the front must put a lot of strain on the bellhousing/transmission junction on most tractors(without a frame).

 

[vtsnowedin]

I would think you could over do all this. Lots of weight in the back and loaded very heavy in the front must put a lot of strain on the bellhousing/transmission junction on most tractors(without a frame).

Yes the upper limit is the load capacity of the tires. In my case 13.6x28 -- 2758 per tire rear and 9.5x24 front 1563 per tire for a total of machine ballast and load of 8642lbs. Liquid ballast would not count as a load on the tires but 2000 on the 3PH would put me 1000 lbs over. (sometimes one page in an owners manual contradicts another one. ) Another page says the maximum vertical load on the front axle with the 9.5x24s is 6210:confused3: