Show us your front end weights and brackets.

[ovrszd]

Not a clue my friend, not a clue!!!!

Anxious to find out though.

 

[CADplans]

Not a clue my friend, not a clue!!!!

Anxious to find out though.

My trailer required that I get off and lift the bed to dump.
The 3 point hitch did not lift high enough to dump the trailer,,,

This devise makes the trailer go high enough to dump,,,

Here is a 1:23 minute video that quickly explains it.

 

[sixdogs]

That is pretty clever.

 

[ovrszd]

Very, very cool. I was sure that's what it did, but with the pic I couldn't quite visualize it. Not bad for a cobbler.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

That is incredibly clever!

 

[sixdogs]

Here is a front weight bracket and weights I bought used for a good price. The bracket is for an M5460 Kubota or something like that but through judicious cross-searching I learned it would fit my M7040 Kubota as well about 30 other Kubotas. I wonder if kubota doesn't like to fool with part numbers and applications. Anyway, it fits so I bought the bracket and 7 weights for a total, I think, of 800 lbs. I'm good with that.
















Ignore photo below. It's for a different tractor and I can't figure out how to delete it. Just ignore.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I just looked at a similar bracket on a M6 yesterday.

FYI, to secure the weights, an angle iron goes through the hole in the weights. The angle iron then bolts to the bracket on each end.

 

[sixdogs]

I just looked at a similar bracket on a M6 yesterday.

FYI, to secure the weights, an angle iron goes through the hole in the weights. The angle iron then bolts to the bracket on each end.

Thanks. I've got the angle iron but it's bent in the middle. I tried to heat it and pound straight but no dice. Any idea how to in-bend 2" x 2" x 1/4" angle iron? I could heat it more as well or just make another. Any thoughts?



In actual use, I've left the angle iron bracket, or retainer, off for years on several bigger tractors and never had a weight come off or even shift on me.

 

[ovrszd]

Thanks. I've got the angle iron but it's bent in the middle. I tried to heat it and pound straight but no dice. Any idea how to in-bend 2" x 2" x 1/4" angle iron? I could heat it more as well or just make another. Any thoughts?



In actual use, I've left the angle iron bracket, or retainer, off for years on several bigger tractors and never had a weight come off or even shift on me.

I'd probably just make another angle iron fastener.

I don't fasten the weights on my 9540. If I bounce the tractor hard I'll hear them bang around a little but have never lost one.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Thanks. I've got the angle iron but it's bent in the middle. I tried to heat it and pound straight but no dice. Any idea how to in-bend 2" x 2" x 1/4" angle iron? I could heat it more as well or just make another. Any thoughts?



In actual use, I've left the angle iron bracket, or retainer, off for years on several bigger tractors and never had a weight come off or even shift on me.

You could pm shieldarc for how to heat bend. (I'd probably do like Richard suggested and make a new one.