How to buy a ballast box - should be simple, right? But....

[Rmart30]

The trick to buying a ballast box is to buy one shaped like another implement. Like a box blade, or a rear blade, or heck even a brush hog.

Why someone would spend actual money to buy a steel box you can throw weight in, just to have weight on the back of their tractor, is beyond me. Seems like a waste of money. Buy a heavy box blade. At least you'll have something useful hanging on to the back of your tractor.

I can answer that one as I did just that to get rid of something shaped like a implement.

I needed something that I could work thru tight narrow trees with when I used my grapple. BB was too wide. Tiller I wasnt going to risk accidentally damaging. and the rotary cutter was too long. So. I spent $225 on a used kubota weight box and filled it with gravel to the tune of about 1100 lbs. Its very short and compact, I dont hang it on trees and it just works great.
Somewhere working out in the open it loses its advantages but id run circles around you and your BB in the trees and tight trails.

 

[Oldoak]

I can answer that one as I did just that to get rid of something shaped like a implement.

I needed something that I could work thru tight narrow trees with when I used my grapple. BB was too wide. Tiller I wasnt going to risk accidentally damaging. and the rotary cutter was too long. So. I spent $225 on a used kubota weight box and filled it with gravel to the tune of about 1100 lbs. Its very short and compact, I dont hang it on trees and it just works great.
Somewhere working out in the open it loses its advantages but id run circles around you and your BB in the trees and tight trails.

:thumbsup:

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

I don't have trees or tight trails.

Neither does the OP, from what he's described.

So, dissimilar things are dissimilar.

 

[SmallChange]

I don't have trees or tight trails.

Neither does the OP, from what he's described.

So, dissimilar things are dissimilar.

I actually DO have trees, lots of them, in addition to what else I described. They seem to be more of an issue for fitting between them, due to the width of the loader bucket. But they can make turning around harder, or moving around the periphery of a pile that has spread out (the most recent challenging circumstance). Taking multiple bites out of a pile from different angles gets a lot harder with trees everyplace. I've only hung something up on them a couple times, slowly, and generally that was the landscape rake which is my widest rear implement. But all that maneuvering is a lot of finicky work.

 

[Rmart30]

I don't have trees or tight trails.

Neither does the OP, from what he's described.

So, dissimilar things are dissimilar.

You asked why someone would. Not why someone with your place would. I explained it to you.


To the OP. it makes a world of difference when you have limited room. Mine is basically 24x24 and 24 , maybe 30 deep.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Yup.

Giving out complete information is the best way to get good advice. (Not)

Withholding important information leads to poor advice.

By all means OP, continue to withhold important information when seeking advice.

That's always super helpful.

Probably should have opened with that little tidbit.

 

[Oldoak]

Making assumptions and speaking for someone else without knowing all the facts is not a good idea either.

That just leads to confusion.

 

[SmallChange]

Yup.

Giving out complete information is the best way to get good advice. (Not)

Withholding important information leads to poor advice.

By all means OP, continue to withhold important information when seeking advice.

That's always super helpful.

Probably should have opened with that little tidbit.

What's the problem? I said I was dealing with close quarters. See post 11. My original post wasn't about whether I should get a ballast box, it was about branding and shipping. Where do you think I was witholding important information?

 

[fried1765]

The trick to buying a ballast box is to buy one shaped like another implement. Like a box blade, or a rear blade, or heck even a brush hog.

Why someone would spend actual money to buy a steel box you can throw weight in, just to have weight on the back of their tractor, is beyond me. Seems like a waste of money. Buy a heavy box blade. At least you'll have something useful hanging on to the back of your tractor.

"Buy a heavy box blade."
Or .... fill a 55 gallon drum with concrete.

 

[appaloosa2]

I'm building a ballast box as we speak because I am using my bucket and grapple in tight spaces. I can't keep looking behind me all the time to see if I have clearance.
Also dealing with quite a hill so going with 1200 lbs.