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I'm not familiar with the 240, must one up the line from the 140 ? Utility size. I run my 850 ford with a cast iron counter weight, that appears to have been manufactured for this purpose. It's got a multi-hole drawbar attached to it, and is what the lift arms attach to. It's thick at the end closest to the tractor and thinner at the back, sloped with a gentle radius, on the bottom side, and being cast it is real heavy, must be over 1000 lbs. The tires are loaded too. I noticed that even with the tires loaded, the tractor was useless in the snow, unless it had chains, but when I put that weight on, it gets good traction in the snow, if there is ice under it, you still need chains, but I was suprised at the difference in performance. The thing I like about this counterweight is that it's compact but heavy, and I can keep it below the rear axle, lower the better, probably stabilizes and applies the weight better. It's also set up so that the strain on the hydraulics is relieved, it has an old backhoe frame for a sherman hoe or similar, so I can rest a steel bar across and take the weight. I would imagine you can buy something fabricated of steel that connects to the 3pt. to do the same, I have thought I've seen something like that before. A lot of people use the conrcrete in the barrel, I just like the smaller compact weight that came from our old ford dealership, I've never seen another one, sure glad I found it in the weeds and have it to use now, in deep snow and muck it seems to get me through, tires are new also, but you have to be careful about slipping/spinning them with the weight on if you have rocks in the soil or muck. Frozen grounda that has thawed a bit seems to slice the tires easily if you spin them, have to be careful about that.
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