Rear wheel weights vs filling tires

[deepNdirt]

I don't read posts any longer than 1" or so, but I agree with Reg. Adding weight to the back end does little or nothing to relieve the weight on the front, nor is it intended to. It only helps to keep the rear wheels on the ground, which is greatly needed on a 2wd tractor. I don't believe you are going to be happy with a loader on a 2wd tractor.

many many tractors in the past before 4x4 tractors came along were using FEL.
and I'm very happy with the way my tractors is performing with its FEL,
but that just me!. I guess I'm not as hard to please as some folks,
this will be my last post about this matter,
Good day! Gents

 

[careyo63]

2wd is fine with me also. My 8n Funk and the JD5103 both have a FEL. and 2wd. The 8n has been in the Mountains of WV. since the 50's and it's still in perfect cond. That would be the only place I can see having 4wd on the Hills and in the Winter Snow. I bought my YM2000 for just around the house Mowing and Tilling the Garden. Every so often BB my gravel Dr.

Carey

 

[normde2001]

"many many tractors in the past before 4x4 tractors came along were using FEL."

Yep, but not lightweight compact tractors. They were much bigger. When I bought my tractor 10 years ago, the dealer would not install a loader on a 2wd tractor.

 

[Reg]

Thanks! there looknlearn I like better your way of explaining this issue,
and what you have explained is what I was saying all along, the 120 lbs might just be what is needed to unload the front end weight load to keep from overloading the front end components of the tractor, this might be close to marginal however does help somewhat, I never really meant or wanted to mislead anyone to think that having rear Ballast weight to the rear is a fix to an overloaded front end, only to help take some of the load off it in worst case scenarios, for instance a couple weeks ago I used my tractor/FEL to move some dirt 200 ft I had to make many trips, ordinarily I would only load the bucket up to 3/4 full around 400lbs..... although while the distance was 200 ft I wanted to move all I could at one time, so I had my 230 lb son stand on the Box blade to ad more ballast just to see if it did in fact help? and yes it did the tires were not so flattened and I could better maneuver the steering, so one would assume more weight on the rear helps to unload weight from the front as well as give better traction,

For a second or so... Ya ALMOST had me believing that (-:
Well played; human ballast indeed ~?~
Funny ~

BTW, looknlearn's arithmetic was off a bit;
Whatever you hang off the back, say 2ft from the rear axle, balances ("relieves") the front axle proportional to the wheelbase (about 5 or 6ft at a guess), NOT proportional to the rear axle to fel bucket distance (more like ~10ft).

 

[looknlearn]

For a second or so... Ya ALMOST had me believing that (-:
Well played; human ballast indeed ~?~
Funny ~

BTW, looknlearn's arithmetic was off a bit;
Whatever you hang off the back, say 2ft from the rear axle, balances ("relieves") the front axle proportional to the wheelbase (about 5 or 6ft at a guess), NOT proportional to the rear axle to fel bucket distance (more like ~10ft).

I was just doing simple arithmetic to show approximately the proportion that 3pt ballast effects the weight in the bucket of the FEL, ignoring the front axle. If I was to accommodate the front axle in my calculations it would be much more complicated. All my measurements were estimates not based on a particular tractor.