fuseboxer
Silver Member
- Joined
- May 4, 2011
- Messages
- 214
- Location
- Gaines, Michigan
- Tractor
- two john deere Sabres (2554-Scotts) and 4410 john deere ,Allis Chalmers WD , 5' Cub Cadet Zero turn
Can anyone identify the old deere wheel weights? I am going "GREEN" and trying to recycle old tractor wheel weights. See picture. I went to a neighbor's farm 3 miles away they have so much farm stuff that I was hypnotized. Too many wheel weights to pick from. They had some big daddy deere weights must be 400lb. each. Too heavy for me. They worry the neighbors will complain. Their suit case wt's looked good for a 3pt.
MY choice was some old 125lb deere weights off probably a 50yr old deere combine? Then I need to match them to someting to attach to my JD4410 rear wheel first. Looked like the 65lb New Holland wheel weights fit a deere perfect. They have at least 8 sets and I could stack them together and it would work out w/o problem. I still wanted the old beatup antique deere weights for my top visible wt. I bought them and new they needed more attention than the newer compact New Holland weights. I payed the sandblaster $10. more to clean them up than the ask for because it was more work than he bargained for. My matching set of inner weights were a real problem and costly. I needed a very large lathe to turn them and make them match the set of my JB40's. Bob at the machine shop was not as generous as in the past but did turn the heavy New Holland 65lb wt's to match my old antique deere wt's.
I hope it works. I still need to get 8-1/2" x 4 1/2" carriage bolts with number 5 hardness. The large wt's are 5/8" holes and all our compacts are 1/2" bolts and holes. I can grind out the inner wt. or try the 1/2". I can shim the 1/2" bolts with shimstock. I need a baby moon hubcaps for my 7 3/4" outter weight hub. Were the old car baby moon's 7 3/4"? Can anyone tell me why, I must be out of my mind, that I am attracted at great cost and effort to two old chunks of steel that once were on a JD whatever? They have dozens laying in the field and I may have chozen poorly. What are they, besides old, they say JB40? Shure is alot of money and time to go GREEN!
MY choice was some old 125lb deere weights off probably a 50yr old deere combine? Then I need to match them to someting to attach to my JD4410 rear wheel first. Looked like the 65lb New Holland wheel weights fit a deere perfect. They have at least 8 sets and I could stack them together and it would work out w/o problem. I still wanted the old beatup antique deere weights for my top visible wt. I bought them and new they needed more attention than the newer compact New Holland weights. I payed the sandblaster $10. more to clean them up than the ask for because it was more work than he bargained for. My matching set of inner weights were a real problem and costly. I needed a very large lathe to turn them and make them match the set of my JB40's. Bob at the machine shop was not as generous as in the past but did turn the heavy New Holland 65lb wt's to match my old antique deere wt's.
I hope it works. I still need to get 8-1/2" x 4 1/2" carriage bolts with number 5 hardness. The large wt's are 5/8" holes and all our compacts are 1/2" bolts and holes. I can grind out the inner wt. or try the 1/2". I can shim the 1/2" bolts with shimstock. I need a baby moon hubcaps for my 7 3/4" outter weight hub. Were the old car baby moon's 7 3/4"? Can anyone tell me why, I must be out of my mind, that I am attracted at great cost and effort to two old chunks of steel that once were on a JD whatever? They have dozens laying in the field and I may have chozen poorly. What are they, besides old, they say JB40? Shure is alot of money and time to go GREEN!
