Rear weighting device

[nch583]

Nice pile of hand made weights. When I saw it I was thinking something like those rectangles from a weight machine.

Then... jumped a bit. Perhaps if one had a 2" round bar one could load it up with 20kg or 45lb cast iron free weight discs if one could find them cheap.

I'm not young for sports anymore

 

[tacticalturnip]

I'm not young for sports anymore

None of us are.

 

[dnw64]

This is how it's done! The first three or four piles are driven using an excavator attachment.

I'm not actually sure how they do it now. 40 years ago when they first started, it was all done with a vibratory attachment suspended by a crane, and powered by a standalone engine/hydraulic pump. Some of these sheets are 40' long/tall. It would take a very large excavator to handle those.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Then... jumped a bit. Perhaps if one had a 2" round bar one could load it up with 20kg or 45lb cast iron free weight discs if one could find them cheap.

A 3/4" black iron pipe is basically 1" ... That's what I used, and it just happens to slide through my BH frame mounts, the biggest weight plates I use are 25 Lbs, with a 1" center ...

Of course you could go with a bigger pipe if you wanted to use the QH to hold it, but my main purpose for this is with a rear blade, that when being used, all that weight is on the ground, I needed more TRACTION!

 

[dnw64]

I needed more TRACTION!

Yes, well, you were using your baby tractor to do a job it was never intended to do. Of course, you have always found a way to do lots with little.

But a word of warning: never share your TBN profile with a potential buyer of that baby if you ever decide to sell it

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Use what you got!

 

[Doug Vee]

Interesting.

Here in the USA I believe it's called "sheathing" or "sheeting". One of my brother-in-laws used to be in the gasoline pump and tank installation business, and ended up using this on his sites. Today, ALL he does is install and remove the sheets for other contractors.

I have only known it as sheet pile here in the PNW. It's nice to learn a new name for it and a little bit of history about it also.