Rear tire fluid

[shaeff]

Maybe not necessary for 4wd tractors, but my MF35 goes NOWHERE (even with chains) without liquid filled tires. I've currently got one that's empty (wheel loop replacement) and I lose traction CONSTANTLY even just making a turn with my 650lb flail mower hanging off the back.

I gotta get that sucker loaded.

 

[jeff9366]

Heavier tractors take longer to stop at highway speeds.

True: Newton's first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. This is normally taken as the definition of inertia. The key point here is that if there is no net force resulting from unbalanced forces acting on an object (if all the external forces cancel each other out), then the object will maintain a constant velocity. If that velocity is zero, then the object remains at rest. And if an additional external force is applied, the velocity will change because of the force. The amount of the change in velocity is determined by Newton's second law of motion.

Adding fluid to tires will reduce your max ground speed on the highway.

jeff9366: When I was a teenager he had a Ford 8n and International M's. We had to travel several miles to get to the fields. I always beat the M's by several minutes. After putting calcium chloride in the Ford, they always out ran me.

You have not convinced me. Adding fluid will slow tractor acceleration. Adding fluid may make operator more cautious about speed, due to longer distance required to stop, but adding fluid in itself will neither increase nor decrease tractor speed.

Newton was a little more scientific in 1688.

 

[Fallon]

Loading rears helps stability & traction with very few negatives other than fuel economy.

Loading fronts doesn't help with stability & isn't recommended by Kubota. The front axle is on a pivot so provides no help at all to counter rolling. Once your front axle hits the stops where it would stop further rolling there is more than enough momentum to keep rolling the tractor over. Front axles are much more complex, expensive & weaker than rear axles. They are going to be dealing with loader weight & engine weight already. So adding extra weight & traction up there has much more implications wearing out all the seals & bearings.

 

[RickB]

Adding weight to the tires wont make the tractor feel any different since you arnt adding weight to the tractor.... only the tires.
being said you will have more weight pressing down the tires for traction. When you load the loader bucket that tire weight will then act like adding a counterweight to the rear.
make sense??

Not a bit. Adding a significant amount of weight to a light tractor will change the feel of it. Every time.