How much does it weigh?

[Shawn T. W.]

I like numbers and know how much stuff weighs . . . I bought a small 500 KG 1100 Lb hanging scale, sometimes called a crane scale ... Do you have a scale?

While this thread is about tractor attachment weights ... I have a cat who always seems to want to "help" ... One day in the kitchen I had a scale out ... This is Blazer, who has gained about 50% in the last 1.5 years since this was taken, he is curled up in my lap now as I write ...

I tested my new scale with a known weight ... Pretty close!

Then I weighed my newly built ballast box for my SCUT ... I had to take off the bucket as it couldn't lift it otherwise ... 707.0 Lbs.

Then I weighed the factory 48" bucket which I had added a Bxpanded Piranha Tooth Bar too, plus two of @kennyd Bolt On Hooks and a receiver hitch ... 189.0 Lbs

My locally made 42" 4,000 Lb rated pallet forks ... 347.4 Lbs

Bush Hog CRB60 Road Grader, a 60" Land Plane ... 285.8 Lbs

A Bush Hog RTC50G a 48" tiller 355.2 Lbs.

No pictures of my Bush Hog BH115 5' rotary cutter, but it weighs 518.4 Lbs.

My Massey Ferguson BH2720 with factory 12" bucket was kinda tricky to weigh, but I got it! 651.0 Lbs (I had to leave the hoses hooked up so I could move it around to balance the weight!)

 

[Shawn T. W.]

A 275 gallon tote 134.0 Lbs.

An old CAT 1/2 72" rear blade that I found out in the weeds and puckerbrush when I bought this place ... 396.4 Lbs.

Bxpanded ripper tooth for my BH 26.6 Lbs

Bxpanded 6" trenching bucket for my BH 38.4 Lbs.

It was tough with the back lighting to get the AgSMArt CAT 1 quick hitch, but it weighs 69.6

I got another quick hitch for my Kubota, also CAT 1 ... This a tad heavier at 72.4 Lbs.

A Land Pride FDR3690 a 90" rear finish mower, hard to get the numbers to show up in the lighting ... 1102.0 Lbs.

 

[anomad]

That is interesting. I would have figured a tiller weighs more than a bush hog. Never looked up the weights obviously...

And I still have envy over that rear finish mower. I would have to go very slow with my little tractor though. It does handle the lighter duty 6ft version just fine though.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Well, you gotta remember the tiller is only a 48" wide designed for a limited CAT 1 hitch ... The rotary cutter is 60" while it's there lighter duty series there still is a lot of steel, it's 8' long!

 

[kennyd]

Those scales are super handy!

 

[anomad]

Well, you gotta remember the tiller is only a 48" wide designed for a limited CAT 1 hitch ... The rotary cutter is 60" while it's there lighter duty series there still is a lot of steel, it's 8' long!

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Good point. My tiller is an old Yanmar branded unit from the 80's and 5 feet wide. My weight estimates have just been seat of the pants pulling stuff around. Doubt I could feel 150 pounds. But I could sure feel the fulcrum of a bush hog or mower sticking way back there. I leave my finish mower on almost all the time. The little B2601 needs all the counterweight it can get.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Those scales are super handy!

Kinda wish I had bought the next size up!

When weighing the finish mower, I did it on conjunction with lifting it up off my trailer when I brought it home ... As my little SCUT wasn't up to the task ...

To run the come along to lower it, as it was quite a ways off the ground, I decided to brace one side of the deck with the forks, and stand on the deck ... The scale is rated for 500 KG, and that's what it said it weighed, but when I stepped my 200 Lbs on the deck ... "We got a problem Houston"!

The supplied aluminum carabineer started to stretch! I quickly grabbed a little chain and bypassed the scale!

By the time I got it on the ground, and the chain had tightened up, it was worse!

I guess it was just barely rated for the 500 KG - 1102 Lbs, but no safety margin!

I have since bought a steel screw style rated for 3600 Lbs!

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One of these days, shortly ... I'm due to adjust the valves on my Little Baby Fergie, I think to make access easier, I'm gonna remove the loader, which I've only done once before, and weigh it too ...