Need a WAG or two!

I gotta admit.....ever since I read UltraDog's "tire day" post...
I have been intrigued at the whole tubeless.....don't load the tires
with CaCl thing.......But...I need the weight for snow plowing in
Western NY State...... So.....I have a barrel that I could cut down to
an appropriate size....I have some salvaged three point hitch
stuff....concrete in the barrel around the hitch stuff.....well you get
the idea......now the WAG......how heavy should I make the
ballast.....it would be farther back now, and not centered over the
axel......thoughts?
 
I take it you have a front blade of some sort? Or loader?
I have roughly 600lbs at the tires of my 2N with a front blade.
It won't plow much snow without chains here in Michigan.
I don't have any weight on the 3pt because it operates the blade.

My Jubilee has roughly 700lbs at the tires and 750 on the 3pt
with a loader out front. It does Ok without chains, but I can lift
and move instead of just having to push through.

My tires are tubed, that may make a difference on weighting.
 
Well, I made one 600 pounds and it was too heavy for my three point. About a third of a barrel might be about right. I got some wheel weights that go inside the rim, the three part kind, but shipping can be a killer.
 
I put a Souder dozer blade on one of my 8Ns in the winter to push snow. A Sauder dozer blade hangs way out front. I have a steel barrel partially filled with concrete suspended off the 3 point hitch. I use chains to hold the barrel up so the stress in not on the hitch. I put six 80 pound bags of concrete in the barrel. I have no other weight on the tires. I have an asphalt driveway that only has a slight slope. I have found this arrangement works well for me. I embedded two 3/4" steel eye bolts in the concrete so I can lift it up with my engine lift to install or remove it from the tractor.
 
plowing with a front blade in our area
takes a lot of weight, AND chains.
With these little Fords, no weight or filled tires and no chains,
lifting the front blade will get you stuck on wet grass :D
I didn't see what tractor you have but
about 500 pounds on the 3-point works ok with N-NAA, etc.
like said, use check chains once you lift it up.
bigger?, my loader 5000 has a 600lb counterweight with 390lbs
of iron MF weights stacked on top

my front plowing NAA has filled tires, a 500lb counterweight (or heavy rear blade) and multiple sets of chains.
works ok, but in the right conditions, -icy snow or heavy snow on hardpack snow-ice-....forget it
have to get out the 4 wheel drive tractor
 
We plowed in upstate NY with the 861 with loaded tires and
double ring chains with a Dearborn front mount plow. As long
as we plowed every storm it worked fine, but if you let it build
up, get icy, etc., it won't work very well as I found out one
February going down to camp to go ice fishing.
 

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