Front weights

[Anonymous Poster]

During plowing and disking I felt that is necessary to improve traction I and tractor stability on slopes. I have original front weights on my old tractor. As we don't use it for hard jobs, I was thinking to put existing front weights on new tractor.
Easiest way was make adapter plate for original weight holder, to keep possibility to use weights on both tractors. As I already have U shaped steel rail mounted on front end (for holding grill guard), I decided to bolt just L steel on it.
It is not painted yet, because rusty metal has similar color like dust from field /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Here is final result of few hours job.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Wiew from left side.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

View from right down to bottom side.

 

[RobS]

Nice looking job there Z. What kind of tractor is it? What's tractoring like in Croatia? If you've been hanging around this board for long you've probably got a good idea of tractoring in the US. Care to provide some cultural enrichment for the rest of us /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Looks good

 

[cchoate]

Here's what I made for my Kubota b7500. 125 lbs total.

 

[Soundguy]

I like your logic behind not painting the bracket as it will look the same when dirty or clean. The wife and I used similar logic when picking out floor tile for the house we built a few years ago. We have 8 inside cats.. and decided to do tile through the whole house.. no carpet... as for the color.. we picked out a tile color scheme most similar to cat vomit... As we know they will...

Soundguy

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Looks well done. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
You used gym weights or? Can you post side view, please?

Allmost forgot. These weights are 100 kg (220 lb I think) heavy.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

RobS,
In attachment you can see both of our family (mine) tractors.
They are not compacts, they are SMALL and powerfull Ag tractors, so I concern them as compacts. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
On STORE tractor you can see my previous project/customization. It is front axle. When we bought this tractor new, it was 2WD. I added (1996) MFWD axle. I also made front fenders. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
SAME was bought last year. If you are more familiar with New Holland, this model has similar dimensions like TN, but lighter little bit.

 

[Bird]

Nice picture and good looking tractors.