Ballast 4110 Rear Ballast

[DGB]

The dealer recommended filling my rear turfs for ballast. He said that would be all the rear ballast I would need. Local kubota dealer said the same about the B7510/7610. After reading the 410 loader manual it looks to me like there should also be some type of 3ph ballast as well. I am new to this tractor thing and just like to check things out. What are the rest of you doing for rear ballast ??

 

[kennyd]

I have a Ballast Box with about 700lbs. of concrete in it. If I try real hard I can still get the tractor light in the rear with my 53" bucket. I do not think just filling the tires will be enough.

 

[WCarlson]

I use a ballast box filled with suitcase weights, gravel and a few old weight lifting plates on my JD 4200. If I felt I needed more weight, I would go with wheel weights rather than the permanent solution of loading the tires. I prefer the ballast box and wheel weights to loaded tires as they preserve the option of dropping the weight for tasks where I might want to lighten up, such as mowing and moving trailers around during mud season, etc..
Bill

 

[keeney]

I have a 4100 with 410 FEL.

The manual lists what the filled weight is, ands I don't have it in front of me, but I seem to remember it only being a few hundred pounds, total with the turfs.

I have 250 lbs of wheel weights that always stay on the tractor and another 850-900 lb concrete 3-pt ballast block that I put on when getting serious with the FEL.

If I am only toting around some brush or something bulky but light on the forks, I sometimes get lazy and leave the ballast block off. About 25% of the time I do this, I end up getting light in the rear end because the stuff I am moving is heaveier or more of it than I thought.

A heaping full bucket of dirt will easily pull the rear end up even with ballasted tires, I suspect. If you ad a tooth bar and start doing some real digging or root-pulling, you can get off balance even easier.

- Rick

 

[JClark]

With my 4110 my preference is to only fill tires with air. It makes removing the wheels almost easy, as opposed to almost impossible, it makes the tractor lighter for transport, and it reduces compaction of my lawn. When I need lotsa traction or ballast for the FEL I attach my box blade and hang my suitcase weights on it. The box blade and the weights total to about 750# and because it hangs so far aft it is much more effective as as a counterweight to the FEL than liquid filled tires could ever be.

My 02 and YMMV but not a whole lot.

 

[mhalla]

<font color="green">JClark, what do you have to do, if anything, to keep the suitcase weights from falling off of your rear blade?

Mike </font>

 

[JClark]

Mhalla, I don't do anything. There are several spots on the box blade where I can hang the weights using the slots.

BTW, suitcase weights are also handy for weighting one end of a rear blade to help cut a nice crown on a dirt or gravel lane. Once in awhile I also use them for what they are designed for.

 

[garchib]

I use the JD ballast box filled with concrete as my sole source of ballast for the
410 FEL and it works fine. I have yet to have stability problems (at least on the
tractor /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif) or not enough ballast to do the task at hand. I have ripped
up asphault, moved loam, bark mulch and plowed snow with great success.

 

[thebigc]

My 4100 has the R4 tires ballasted with CaCl/H2O and find it plenty stable with my 410 FEL w/61"bucket. Not quite as stable as my weight box was, but stable nonetheless. And it's nice not having the 3PH tied up with dead weight.

Donny

 

[friedlake]

Like you I just started tractoring! A good tip I read on another forum was to put some PVC piping in your ballast box. (if you get one) then fill up with sand or concrete!!!!!voila! nice little holder for you rakes shovel etc.If you so inclined drill some holesd in the bottom to ley any water escape!!

Good Luck!