Zetor power --- shhh!

[Renze]

Yeah Zetor power eh ?? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
hp doesn't say much.. It's tires and weight that generate traction, and with enough field gears, you can choose the right gear for the job.

but eh... The usual six inches of ploughing depth in North America, would be not much more than a stubble tillage in Holland...

Attached, a pic of our 5245 ploughing with a 3 furrow 16" Ferguson (rebadged Huard, French made) plough, this spring, ploughing at about 35 cm depth. (the 16.9-30 boots are well into the furrow) pulling at 1800-2100 rpm 1st gear high. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

I didn't use the disc coulters because i couldn't lift them up high enough to get the disc hubs above field level.. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Reg]

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I would fill the tires with Rimgaurd (non corrosive, no hazmat) available at many tractor or tire dealers or the cast iron wheel wts. I am not sure the wheel weights will equal the wt. of loaded tires. I would not count on an implement to be your ballast. Accidents happen when you are in a rush or not thinking (and have not hooked up the implement or wt. box) With loaded tires (or wheel wts) you don't have to think. Thats my 2 cents.
Happy Tractoring
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Somewhere on this site there is a table of common tires sizes with the gallons that each takes and the weights for water, calcium chloride and - another material, but I don't remember what it was.
IIRC a 17.5 x 24 inch tire takes about 55 gallons, so those iron wheel weights would have to be over 500 lbs each to compete.
Pulling them off and on would probably require a special tool, lift or another FEL.
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