One ton 3pt ballast ...

Zebrafive · Jan 25, 2012

Well done! When you go into production I want one! All CAT 2 pins. It would be perfect for my 6415

rcowan · Jan 25, 2012

I need one with hooks so I can back up to it with the box blade then lift the box blade.

I had a pallet of horse feed pellets on the FEL las night and the back end was off the ground.
My wife needs to gain a few pounds cause her weight just wasn't enough to counter 12-80 pound bags of pellets.

RC

JerryK · Jan 25, 2012

rcowan said:
I need one with hooks so I can back up to it with the box blade then lift the box blade.

I had a pallet of horse feed pellets on the FEL las night and the back end was off the ground.
My wife needs to gain a few pounds cause her weight just wasn't enough to counter 12-80 pound bags of pellets.

RC

Nice ASA patch.. I was in Frankfurt behind the Farben Building, then spent a year and a half in Nam [ got there just before Tet ] for the 509th [ 1st Radio Research, then 224th Aviation ], came back...got assigned to the airborne in Brag [ playing golf and eating donuts ], then finally back to Fort Gordon for an instructor [ hated that ]....

JerryK · Jan 25, 2012

indianaEPH said:
Super nice ballast setup. I was thinking of something similar. How does it handle with this ballast on?

The hoe only weighs about 1500 pounds, and the 2K# ballast sets it down more in the rear. Don't have to worry about lifting the rear when using the FEL, but I ride around with it only about 6 inches or so up off the ground. The hoe CofG is probably higher than the ballast, but I am still a newbie using it on the back... and still worry about a quick upside down flip every time I raise it up. Didn't seem to bother me riding around with the hoe on, but ever since I saw how tippy the tractor is when using the FEL without any weight on the rear, I need to be retrained.... Probably should have made it more T shaped on the bottom, and maybe knock off a couple hundred pounds...if I did it again.