Next on my long list of questions about my 850 is about front weight. Next summer I'll be using this to spray my 1-acreish vineyard with a sprayer built on a 3-point carryall. It has a 65 gallon tank and filled I think is somewhere on the order of 700-800 lbs.
I gave it a test run this past weekend (which turned into a trip to the store for stabilizer arms and brackets) less than half full and was a little nervous about the weight. Vineyard is on a gentle slope with not much room for turning at the row ends, but enough room as long as I'm comfortable cutting it pretty tight. The rows run across the slope. No loader on the tractor. Anybody have a guess at how much weight in the front I might want in order to keep this safe and keep my front tires able to make a tight turn? How about how much I can hang out there without risking damage to the front end? there's no bumper on it now, so that will probably be fabricated to match whatever I end up using for ballast. I'm thinking something cast from concrete or a box of whatever's heavy...
Brian
I gave it a test run this past weekend (which turned into a trip to the store for stabilizer arms and brackets) less than half full and was a little nervous about the weight. Vineyard is on a gentle slope with not much room for turning at the row ends, but enough room as long as I'm comfortable cutting it pretty tight. The rows run across the slope. No loader on the tractor. Anybody have a guess at how much weight in the front I might want in order to keep this safe and keep my front tires able to make a tight turn? How about how much I can hang out there without risking damage to the front end? there's no bumper on it now, so that will probably be fabricated to match whatever I end up using for ballast. I'm thinking something cast from concrete or a box of whatever's heavy...
Brian