Rear Ballast Close to or Far out from the tractor??

[disney]

Once you bought the QH your path is destined.

Design every 3pt piece of equipment to fit the QH. Never take it off. In the end you will consider it an easy chore to pick up the ballast box, use it, set it back down, all without leaving the tractor seat. Why would anything else be considered??

Plus 4

I love my ballast box, soo useful, and I pick it up, and drop it quite often.

If I did it right, the link below shows my completed box. I did a separate thread on the build.

http://http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/302204-yabb-ballast-box-actually-started.html?highlight=

 

[nightdevil]

Plus 4

I love my ballast box, soo useful, and I pick it up, and drop it quite often.

If I did it right, the link below shows my completed box. I did a separate thread on the build.

http://http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/302204-yabb-ballast-box-actually-started.html?highlight=

oh man thats nice!

 

[disney]

oh man thats nice!

Thanks. It will take a little more work, and maybe a few more dollars, but I think you would love it. Just use a little less cement for your tractor...

 

[aczlan]

View attachment 493309
This is what I'm thinking

That should work, I have a similar barrel (with a hole for a pin hitch and a 2" ball in the back) and it is a really needed when I put the 7' snowblower on the front.

Aaron Z

 

[ovrszd]

Yep, that'll work great. Won't take much to hold everything in place since concrete will give it all strength.

When building something like this make the tolerances sloppy. Leave plenty of space between the top link tabs for example. Make it very easy to hookup using the QH.

 

[crazyal]

On my 55 gallon drum BB I used a set of pins from Tractor supply. They come threaded so I just drilled a hole on each side of the drum. Inside the drum I used a short piece of conduit over the exposed threads and tack welded it to the nuts. Once the cement is in there it's not going anywhere. For the top link I just welded two L-angles to the top of the drum and left the area where the top link could hit the drum void of cement. You really don't need to over engineer it as the cement does most of the work. It's 6 years old now and works just as good today as the day I built it.

 

[fried1765]

Any recommendations on how to make a 3pt hitch lift points for on a barrel? Do they sell lifting points/arms I can weld on?

Recommendation: YUP!
Buy a set of 3pt. forks from Agri Supply.
Put a loaded barrel, wood box, or whatever you want on a pallet.
Back up, slide the 3pt. forks under the pallet, and off you go with whatever weight you have loaded on the pallet.
For my Ford 1920, I built a wood frame on a small pallet, and added 500 lbs. of scrap lead.
My tires are also each loaded with 38 gal. of windshield washer fluid.
You could also use bricks, blocks, sand, etc. on the pallet.
I do not need to get off the tractor to attach, or detach, my weight!
If you do not already have a set of 3pt. forks, you will be amazed how inexpensive, and handy they are (I do have a set of loader forks also)!

 

[ovrszd]

Recommendation: YUP!
Buy a set of 3pt. forks from Agri Supply.
Put a loaded barrel, wood box, or whatever you want on a pallet.
Back up, slide the 3pt. forks under the pallet, and off you go with whatever weight you have loaded on the pallet.
For my Ford 1920, I built a wood frame on a small pallet, and added 500 lbs. of scrap lead.
My tires are also each loaded with 38 gal. of windshield washer fluid.
You could also use bricks, blocks, sand, etc. on the pallet.
I do not need to get off the tractor to attach, or detach, my weight!
If you do not already have a set of 3pt. forks, you will be amazed how inexpensive, and handy they are (I do have a set of loader forks also)!

But then, didn't you have to hookup the forks to hookup the ballast weight, then have to unhook the ballast weight to unhook the forks to use the QH for a different attachment??? Whew, wore me out typin all that...

 

[fried1765]

But then, didn't you have to hookup the forks to hookup the ballast weight, then have to unhook the ballast weight to unhook the forks to use the QH for a different attachment??? Whew, wore me out typin all that...

With the Pat's Quick Hitch, the forks come on/off in a flash.
But.....I usually store/leave the 3pt. forks right in the pallet.
When I need ballast again, I just back up to the forks with the Pat's.
Don't have a real QH.
Old guy with old tractors!
No tier 4, no electronics! I like it that way!

 

[ovrszd]

With the Pat's Quick Hitch, the forks come off in a flash.
But.....I usually store/leave the 3pt. forks right in the pallet.
When I need ballast again, I just back up to the forks with the Pat's.
Don't have a QH.
Old guy with old tractors!

And then get off the tractor and hookup the toplink......

Pat's is an improvement but should never be confused with a QH.