Anyone using a "job site" box for a ballast box?

[newbury]

Like the title says -
I was thinking of taking a "jobsite storage box" like a Knaak, (16 cubic foot) mounting it on a pallet, then using my 3pt pallet forks when I wanted weight in the rear. I'd put blocks of concrete with metal in for extra weight (think of a cube of brake rotors in concrete) that I could easily lift out with a overhead block and tackle if I wanted full use of the jobbox. But it would also provide convenient storage for tools I like to bring along.

I figure if it was half full of concrete/metal I could get about 1,000 lbs in it easily.

Any one have any pointers?

 

[Redlands Okie]

Just make sure it fastened on well. Otherwise sounds like tool holder and weight box all ready to go. I have no weight box but do have several job boxes. Hmm, perhaps a excuse for some short forks for the back of the tractor.

 

[Texasmark]

Remember foot-lbs. Take the rear axle as the fulcrum and measure the distance to your load. Multiply that distance by the actual weight of the load and you have your "compensating effect" on what's hanging off your 3 pt.

I just put 6 cast iron weights on the front end of my 3910 for a total weight of 150#. The distance from the center of the weights to the rear axle is 8ft. I just got 1200#worth of compensation for the dead weight of 150#. Did it solve my flying front end problem......you betcha.

 

[TnAndy]

I use my skidding winch for that.....lot of metal, it's fairly heavy. Have a job box....but I'd have to empty the ammo out of it first.

 

[newbury]

Remember foot-lbs. Take the rear axle as the fulcrum and measure the distance to your load. Multiply that distance by the actual weight of the load and you have your "compensating effect" on what's hanging off your 3 pt.

I just put 6 cast iron weights on the front end of my 3910 for a total weight of 150#. The distance from the center of the weights to the rear axle is 8ft. I just got 1200#worth of compensation for the dead weight of 150#. Did it solve my flying front end problem......you betcha.

My "problem" is I need to move full buckets of wet sand and 10' long logs with my M4700. Lift capacity is 1 ton on the FEL. A couple of times I've gotten that "floating feeling" with the rear tires lifting off the ground. I need the weight on the rear. So putting a jobbox a few feet to the rear with 1,000 lbs should work fairy well.

 

[GLyford]

Don't a bunch of the job boxes already have forklift holes?