Wide front vs narrow front

I have an h farmall that is currently a tricycle front end and has 3 point hitch.
I've got a wide front end for the h laying in my yard.
I use this tractor for pulling a small Bush hog, pallet forks,moving hay around and etc....
I've owned several tricycle front end tractors and never had any trouble with the tricycle front end.
When I spear a 4x5 roll of hay it gets light in the front.
I've thought about building a weight bracket and hang suit case weights on the nose.
Or I could install the wide front end and it already has a weight bracket mounted on it.
I know wide front is more stable
But a tricycle front end turns better.
What would you guys do in this situation?
Thanks for the input
 
For what it's worth, the early WFE added about 270 pounds.

If my main use was pallet forks and related, I'd stick with better maneuverability.
 
Leave the narrow front on it, but it's easy to build a weight bracket to fit some weight's that maybe are on another tractor, or buy or make some suite case weight's.
 
Dad bought a '57 Farmall 450 gas NFE spring of '65. Had Fast Hitch and came with a 4F-43 fully mounted 4 bottom plow, IH fully mounted rotary chopper, think a model 27, Truck driver that delivered it helped Dad mount the plow and he took right off out to the field plowing. I ran it a bit when I got home from school, had to stop at the end of the field and raised the plow, you would lift the frt wheels 4-5 feet in the air if you didn't. First rainy day Dad recycled an old Caswell loader front cylinder mount into a front weight bracket. Held two 140# rear wheel weights, and an angle iron saddle held two 50# scale weights, plus the weight bracket itself weighed over 100#, so almost 500# total. No more problems raising the plow, driving the tractor on the road between farms.

By all means, keep the nfe, find some way to hang 400-500 pounds on the front, sell the wfe for the H, they bring way more than they're worth IMHO. Remember, weight is weight, most weights are Buck a pound, but some are crazy expensive, use what's cheap. Last one piece 140# IH rear wheel weights I bought were $60 a pair for three pair and $15 for all the hardware needed to mount them to the M, so $195 for three pair of weights, right at 850#, or less than 23 cents per pound.
 
You're going to lose a TON of maneuverability going to a wide front, especially the one with the tie rods in front of the axle. It sounds like that would not work well for what you use the tractor for.
 
This is the one I built for my super C. Worked well.
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