View attachment 285792Railbender, good ideas, thanks.
I already have an almost new 4 foot Land Pride box blade for my smaller tractor which I was going to use on this, but clearly it isn't heavy enough to provide the counterbalance
I need. Nice ball hitch on yours! Yes, I think the top n tilt kit makes sense; might as well use those remotes, and I have a friend with a long mountain driveway that's all ditched, and I was wondering how to help him with that.
Adjusting those links manually isn't hard, just inconvenient, and I suppose the hydraulic kit offers more range.
I really need to do the math on my weight; one of my overriding issues is I want/need to pull this tractor, with implements, with my 9400 pound capacity Suburban, and I don't want to exceed 9000 pounds, or frankly get too close to that.
The tractor is 4200++, add the loader, the grapple is a beast, the ballast box with weights is another 1000 pounds, and the trailer is 3000. So....the real question is how much weight does filling the tires add? I immediately ordered the rear wheel weights when my first trip up the hill to the barn had my tires spinning in 2wd. I'm headed next back to the Long site to look up the weight of the grapple bucket, but it clearly is much heavier than a standard bucket.
All of this weight issue is because I do some charity mowing for my Quaker Meeting, where I have a couple of local farms where I mow their fields and they make a donation to the church. I don't get paid, other than fuel, and I'm quite happy with the arrangement. The farms are too far to drive the tractor to; I live in suburbia that was once farmland, and the local MB and Land Rover drivers are too impatient getting behind tractors on roads where it's hard to pass. Probably interrupts their texting...:thumbdown: And at least once a year I have a 200 mile trip to the NY Catskills to work on my friend's mountain cabin. I'm almost wondering if the smarter move is to rent a truck for the 3-4 times a year I need to move the tractor, and load up the Kubota with as much weight as possible. My local dealer will haul me around to the local farms on his rollback very reasonably, which is a wonderful convenience.
So I'm still thinking through what the smart/safe thing to do is here. If fully loading the weight box and adding rear weights doesn't give me the balance I need, then I don't think I have a choice but to fill the tires, which I have zero experience with. The farm I work on has its shares of slopes and hills too.
I will sure check the holddown screws in the remote bracket, thanks. An early pic of my storage area, much cleaned up and organized now. Owner's AC B in the back.
Drew