Rear wheel weight lifter.

GlennW

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Fed up of struggling to line up bolts and manhandle wheel weights into place.
Thinking of trying to design a telehandler mounted gadget to pick up the weights and be able to put them up to the tractor wheel and rotate into place. Has anyone done this already or got any ideas of the best way to go about it
 
Fed up of struggling to line up bolts and manhandle wheel weights into place.
Thinking of trying to design a telehandler mounted gadget to pick up the weights and be able to put them up to the tractor wheel and rotate into place. Has anyone done this already or got any ideas of the best way to go about it
Stub axle ,and a flat steel wheel like on an old cousins subsoiler ,have a similar yoke ,what put tractor wheels on with ,it has small lawnmower wheel that goes in rim , so you can turn it a bit ,and two support wheels at the bottom
 

GlennW

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
That's basically what we've been doing up to now, but they need to be right on the very end of the tine so that the tine doesn't run into the hub first, then having to shuffle 205kg round and get them flat to the wheel pan so that the bolts go in, is not easy.
 

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
Fed up of struggling to line up bolts and manhandle wheel weights into place.
Thinking of trying to design a telehandler mounted gadget to pick up the weights and be able to put them up to the tractor wheel and rotate into place. Has anyone done this already or got any ideas of the best way to go about it
Mchale Soft hands will do the job, just need a rubber tyre taped to it to grip the wheel weight
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GlennW

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
That's basically what we've been doing up to now, but they need to be right on the very end of the tine so that the tine doesn't run into the hub first, then having to shuffle 205kg round and get them flat to the wheel pan so that the bolts go in, is not easy.

This was intended as a reply to Aftermath and Lofty1984, Will1594 got in while I was typing :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 

GlennW

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Stub axle ,and a flat steel wheel like on an old cousins subsoiler ,have a similar yoke ,what put tractor wheels on with ,it has small lawnmower wheel that goes in rim , so you can turn it a bit ,and two support wheels at the bottom

Thinking of using an old stub axle was about as far as i'd got :sneaky:
Do you have any pictures of your rig up ?
 
That looks just the thing, although we might need a bigger roller as the centre of JD weight is bigger than the one in the picture
Instead of wheel weights ,have you seen ezi ballast laforge made them for 7 series jd ,dont know how many dollars they are , have asked terry birch a price to cut some steel out and what it will weigh , have made a plywood template , and working out how thick ,to get the right weight and work out how to mount demount easily ,
 

GlennW

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Instead of wheel weights ,have you seen ezi ballast laforge made them for 7 series jd ,dont know how many dollars they are , have asked terry birch a price to cut some steel out and what it will weigh , have made a plywood template , and working out how thick ,to get the right weight and work out how to mount demount easily ,
Yeah, that was the drive over one, were they an option for the 6R ? Haven’t heard much about them, maybe they didn’t catch on.
Have just found this though
 

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