patrickg
Veteran Member
Regarding the Kubota Grand L-4610HSTC which is really light in the backsides: The tractor is rated for about 2700 lbs. maximum on the 3 point hitch. I have used my very heavy box blade or the weight and leverage of my HD 6' brush hog as counterweight to keep from standing this little tractor on its nose (as easily). Sometimes there just isn't room to manuever with a big brush hog on back or even the box blade so the pallet forks or the FEL bucket capacity goes way down to a dissapointing miniscule unmanly figure.
In the past, others have posted of building concrete counterweights to attach to the 3PH. Sounds attractive to me, but how heavy? I thought a set of 3 weighing say 500, 1000, and 1500 lbs or a set of two at 750 and 1500 would be good. I like to be conservative and not carry around too much weight if it isn't needed. Ideas?
My next thought was that I could build one weight with 3PH attachment and add supplemental weights, maybe designed to be loaded using the pallet forks. This rapidly degenerated into thoughts of buying or building a "Carryall" platform or similar and setting on weights as needed, probably cast from concrete with lifting provisions to fit pallet forks. So now I am vacilating while being tossed on the horns of a dilemma: Why do folks make counter weights to fit a 3PH when/if a 3PH carryall platform thingy might do the job well and have other uses (I like mult- use tools if the trade offs aren't too bad - often multi-purose tools don't do anything really well).
I thought perhaps the carryall would still be larger (stick out more) and limit manueverability but thought I could shorten it with removable lower supports so that it could be used in a half size or full size by just wing boltingl on extensions with overlaping doublers for strength.
Any comments from users of any of the above will be appreciated, especially anyone having experience with both carryall thingies and dedicated counterweights.
In the past, others have posted of building concrete counterweights to attach to the 3PH. Sounds attractive to me, but how heavy? I thought a set of 3 weighing say 500, 1000, and 1500 lbs or a set of two at 750 and 1500 would be good. I like to be conservative and not carry around too much weight if it isn't needed. Ideas?
My next thought was that I could build one weight with 3PH attachment and add supplemental weights, maybe designed to be loaded using the pallet forks. This rapidly degenerated into thoughts of buying or building a "Carryall" platform or similar and setting on weights as needed, probably cast from concrete with lifting provisions to fit pallet forks. So now I am vacilating while being tossed on the horns of a dilemma: Why do folks make counter weights to fit a 3PH when/if a 3PH carryall platform thingy might do the job well and have other uses (I like mult- use tools if the trade offs aren't too bad - often multi-purose tools don't do anything really well).
I thought perhaps the carryall would still be larger (stick out more) and limit manueverability but thought I could shorten it with removable lower supports so that it could be used in a half size or full size by just wing boltingl on extensions with overlaping doublers for strength.
Any comments from users of any of the above will be appreciated, especially anyone having experience with both carryall thingies and dedicated counterweights.