So I had to do my neighbors hay and used the BA to cut the hay. I have a long steep hill on my driveway and found that the front of the BA with the A16 sickle bar mower got a tad bit light on the front and was hard to keep going in a straight line. So I need to add a bit of weight to the front. I also need to replace one front tire since it is so thin the tube is almost as thick. At least I now have the time to sit back and weight out my option as for tire and weight since I am now done as for 1st cutting of the hay and not sure I'll get a 2nd cutting
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Farmall plowboy
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Not to be a smart azz,but ih made front wheel weights for those tractors.
Farmall plowboy
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Sometimes Ebay has them reasonable, I think I got some off there a few years back.
Janicholson
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There are two holes on each side of the front bolster near the bottom. I would find something from the scrap pile (like an old grader blade) and cut it up into 14 inch pieces. I would then make a bracket for these pieces that would cup the bottom of the blade pieces when they were stacked, and hav a lip on the outside edge to keep them from scooting outward at the bottom (Like a capital L with a tab sticking up on the right end). I would bolt it in place, stack on the pieces, and bind it into a lump with ratchet straps. I would (on your BA) put it only on the driver's side. The design would allow you to put it together without lifting the whole thing as a weight. Jim
I have a few old weights that are for maybe a pie type wheel weight I am thinking about putting on close to the front. Never have been able to figure out what the weights came off of but I have them just laying around. The bigger ones are about 34lbs and the smaller around 25 so in my range of lifting . LOL Lifting and what the doctor says I should do does not get along with life. LOL. Doctors says 35lbs max but life does not let you do that all the time but I do try. I'll have to look it over and see if I can bolt them on with very little trouble. As for what side I run a set of duals on the narrow side so as to help keep it from flipping on the nondrivers side
notjustair
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Don?t laugh.
When I was younger we had a mower for our 8N that was a little too heavy. If I was mowing on a hill I draped a sandbag from the old pickup over the hood. We used old truck inner tubes and cut them, filled them with sand, and then twisted the ends shut with baling wire. I must have looked goofy but it worked for something I didn?t need that often.
When I was younger we had a mower for our 8N that was a little too heavy. If I was mowing on a hill I draped a sandbag from the old pickup over the hood. We used old truck inner tubes and cut them, filled them with sand, and then twisted the ends shut with baling wire. I must have looked goofy but it worked for something I didn?t need that often.
I found 2 sets of IH front wheel weights on Craigslist in your area. $125 & $200 is what sellers are asking. Doesn't mean that's what they will get. I paid $150 & $200 for the 2 sets I have. Time I was done, cost way more than that. 1 set came from Michigan & other set from New York. Then I had to pay shipping from Ontario to Alberta. I would be all over those weights in your area. I wish old tractors/parts are like you guys have, out west here there is nothing. What is really over priced is wheel weights for the 18" front rim, bend over & your not going to get kissed either.
The BA I built has 15 inch front rims with either 400 or 500X15 tires. I need to replace one front tire yesterday but that is another story. As for paying that for weights I'll not do that since before I would do that I could go to my scrap iron pile and make what I need. It just gets me that the front of this is so light that going up a hill the front tried to go every where but where I was trying to steer it.. Shoot I may even fil the front tires with wiper fluid.
Now the part thing your talking about that is why I will not scrap a tractor. I'll let it lay in the fence row before I sell it as scrap iron since sooner or latter some one will need a part I have
Now the part thing your talking about that is why I will not scrap a tractor. I'll let it lay in the fence row before I sell it as scrap iron since sooner or latter some one will need a part I have
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