California
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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 14,841
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
Maybe these photos can suggest some wheel ballast ideas.One of the issues with wheel weight (at least on bigger tractors that I messed with) is managing the weight in a confined space. Thank God you stack them for increased weight, but even then managing the alignment with the holes inside the wheel could be a pain.
I was going to drill and adapt these stackable Kubota wheel weights for the second YM186D, but I eventually gave up and just transferred over the weights from my first YM186D instead.
At any rate this shows how I used a ramp to position the wheel weight to figure a fit. The ramp had worked well mounting the previous smaller diameter weights on the first YM186D. (All wheel weights are 77 lbs.)
And this shows my successful mounting of earlier weights on that first YM186D. I had to hog out material from the inner side of the weight for the valve stem to be accessible. Here's a thread describing that.
Re-purposed the unmountable Kubota weights as temporary rear ballast, to counterbalance loader work in tight space. I could hang all four on there but two feels sufficient.
And 50 lbs of free exercise equipment weights, that add a little traction for pulling my 2600 lb watering trailer uphill. This weight is in addition to the qhitch (65 lbs) and the drawbar on it (22 lbs) that has the trailer ball.