Tractor weights

[jpd]

I need a full set on my 2 wd to lift my plough.
Do the gr8 unwashed bother remove and add weighs during the summer as needs be,
Or leave them on all summer?

 

[Hesston4860s]

I need a full set on my 2 wd to lift my plough.
Do the gr8 unwashed bother remove and add weighs during the summer as needs be,
Or leave them on all summer?

Back in the day we used to only put them on when needed, now I just leave em on all the time. The weights still weigh the same but I’m 25 years older lol

 

[Brisel]

Easier to do with front linkage these days. Mine stay on all summer as I need the traction on the front end on some very steep ground. It dampens the ride with decent flotation tyres too. I do vary tyre pressures which alters ground pressure for field work vs road work on haulage.

All mine are big pack weights which means a forklift and chain to take them on or off. To be honest it's 2 minutes with a socket and 3 minutes with the forklift to do it. That's quicker than a set of wafer weights unless you have a bar through them all and a quick release pin like Fords used to do.

 

[dowcow]

I have leaf weights, 45kg a piece, so I lift them on when I need them and take them off when I don't. I hate the feeling of an over heavy tractor. I forgot to take them off after ploughing and went mowing. Took them off after the first field was dropped. It's a waste of diesel carrying extra weight too.

We did buy a tractor some years ago, an MF3075 that came with a bunch of weights on the front, which we decided to just leave there thinking it needed them. It transformed the tractor when we took them off for some reason years later. It made it feel agile and a better drive all round.

 

[manfromhill]

Put on and off when needed five minute job the jd 40 kg wee bit easier than the 50s

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

after you use an angle grinder, you don't leave the goggles on your head till the next time your in the workshop grinding

 

[Selectamatic]

Take them off, carrying weight, burning Diesel, wearing out front axles for nothing!

 

[yellow belly]

Take weights off if not needed for counter balance

Fords and new Holland stay as one pack lifted of easy

Case magnum needed separating but when removed and the mounting block unbolted from the tractor it was a different tractor on the road

Front linkage makes light work

 

[jpd]

Me poor back

 

[dowcow]

Me poor back

It helps if you have somewhere to store them off the ground, ideally a similar height to the weight bar on the tractor. Even if they are only a foot or so off the ground it helps a lot and every inch you don't have to lift them or drop them is a bonus

 

[Ormond]

after you use an angle grinder, you don't leave the goggles on your head till the next time your in the workshop grinding

I never do....usually put them down somewhere I can't quite remember where

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

I never do....usually put them down somewhere I can't quite remember where

ha ha I have seen me looking for the goggles, and cannot remember where i put them 5 mins ago. then my son will ask "what you looking for" i tell him, and he replies " there on you head"

 

[Drillman]

Me poor back

Stick some threaded bar thru the whole set to hold them together and lift em on/off with a chain or strap on a loader.

 

[jpd]

Stick some threaded bar thru the whole set to hold them together and lift em on/off with a chain or strap on a loader.

They have 2 slide on and off the carrier

 

[dowcow]

A bit like the way every phone had its own charger, I find it irritating that every tractor manufacturer has decided to come up with their own unique and incompatible with every other tractor manufacturers method of attaching leaf weights to the front of the tractor. Is it even possible to use NH weights on a Case? What about MF/Valtra/Fendt? I imagine not... Stupid stupid stupid and should have been standardised back in the 70's.

Surprising that there can actually be so many different and incompatible ways to mount a 40-50kg slab to another slab.

I suppose the front 3pt hitch has somewhat reduced the problem, on larger machines especially.

 

[Toby_1]

@dowcow You make a good point, standardisation would help many.

Although once the interface had been standardised, there would be customers who found their old X-branded front weights would no longer fit a new tractor of the same brand.

 

[Drillman]

They have 2 slide on and off the carrier

So slide em in from the side with a loader. Be a bit of jiggling to do it I would guess but a good lathering of grease on opposing surfaces would help.

Alternatively get some sort of bracket knocked up so they can be lifted on off easy. A couple or 3 visits to the chiropractor less will soon pay for the engineering involved.

 

[Hesston4860s]

Stick some threaded bar thru the whole set to hold them together and lift em on/off with a chain or strap on a loader.

Can’t really do that with JD weights tho as you can’t get the center pin in to hold them on, and yes they will slide off while in use without the centre pin I’ve had it happen once.

 

[Drillman]

Can’t really do that with JD weights tho as you can’t get the center pin in to hold them on, and yes they will slide off while in use without the centre pin I’ve had it happen once.

Another great piece of design by the mothership

Glad I have NH weights which are a lot easier to deal with.