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Front Weights - You Use Them?

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Bill VA

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One of the things on my list of additions for my Farmall 756 and JD 5055d is front weights. The JD is definitely light on the front, the 756 is borderline. This is not for keeping the front on the ground when plowing, but when going up a slope with a loaded wagon, or heavy 3pt or drawbar load.

How much weight do you run on your tractor, why and do you leave the weights on year round?

Thanks!
Bill
 
Have a 1750 Oliver with the base weight and two slab weights, I think around 450 total. Oliver 1650 with base and two stack weights around 300 or so. Oliver 1755 with base weight and one slab weight little over 300. We don't really do much tillage but have some hilly ground. This seems like a decent amount for us. We do mostly hay but I wouldn't​ have less on any tractor. When plowing with the 1650 and 3- 16 mounted plows the front can be light as well as discing it wants to slide sometimes. As far as real steep ground be careful of a roll over. If you are worried about just pulling wagons then you should definitely use weight and a bunch. We keep all weights on year long. Have not been off in over 30 years. Works for us.
 
1550 oliver with starter block with 3 point mower and blade it helps. D 15 allis 12 foot semi mount disc had about 160 otherwise it would slide. Hauling manure with ford 5000 had about 80 lbs on front with that you could turn in slick conditions but without it you would have to hit the brakes to turn on an uphill turn. I always use as little as possible for less ground compaction and easier on the front end. Seen way to many guys raking hay with every weight they can find on the front end . My idea is if you need them put them on if not take them off.
 
I agree on the necessity of FE weights for plowing tractors, especially on the new short wheel base units. Since my new ones have FELs, I just scoop up a partial bucket of gravel when what I'm doing dictates more FE weight.
 

I had a Case 1490 that seemed to need front weights. In certain conditions it would "push". My Ford 8240 MFWA had a few on the front when I got it, but I took them off. The weight of the axle was always plenty even pulling a heavy manure spreader up hill. My cousin has big Fords that came with approx 1500 lbs of "chin" weights. He took them all off from each of the Fords. I believe that the owners manual for virtually every tractor will tell you to remove the weights when not needed, and put them back on when they are needed, in order to maximize economy and minimize wear and soil compaction.
 
Use about 700 pounds on the front of a Farmall 706 when the 8' snow blower is mounted. They come off when the blower does.

Rick
 

The only time you should need front weights is when something heavy is mounted on the 3 point. If you think you need them just for pulling a wagon up a steep hill, you need to just stay away from that hill. It is way too steep for safe tractor operation.
 
(quoted from post at 17:05:38 04/18/17) That's means I'd have to stay off about 40% of my hay land,I've pulled the front end off the ground baling with an 8000 Ford.Gotta do what you gotta do.
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Most of us would go across that hill, rather than up and down.
 
I know a lot of places where the field is too narrow to drive across the hill. All you'd be doing is turning around every 15 seconds.

Up here in Western and Central NY, especially in the Southern Tier, we don't always have the luxury of quarter-sections of open flat land. You farm where someone has managed to grub out enough trees to make a clearing big enough to turn the tractor around in, even on the side of a mountain.
 
(quoted from post at 05:45:41 04/19/17) I know a lot of places where the field is too narrow to drive across the hill. All you'd be doing is turning around every 15 seconds.

Up here in Western and Central NY, especially in the Southern Tier, we don't always have the luxury of quarter-sections of open flat land. You farm where someone has managed to grub out enough trees to make a clearing big enough to turn the tractor around in, even on the side of a mountain.
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I'll second that. Here in the northeast the land is all divided into long narrow strips perpendicular to the roads. The roads usually run in the valleys. Fields often run up the hills five times longer than wide.
 
(quoted from post at 05:50:14 04/19/17)
(quoted from post at 05:45:41 04/19/17) I know a lot of places where the field is too narrow to drive across the hill. All you'd be doing is turning around every 15 seconds.

Up here in Western and Central NY, especially in the Southern Tier, we don't always have the luxury of quarter-sections of open flat land. You farm where someone has managed to grub out enough trees to make a clearing big enough to turn the tractor around in, even on the side of a mountain.
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I'll second that. Here in the northeast the land is all divided into long narrow strips perpendicular to the roads. The roads usually run in the valleys. Fields often run up the hills five times longer than wide.
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Different part of the country I guess. Around here, if the land is too steep for farming, we let the cows take care of it.
 
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