DC Eagle Hitch Front Weights

Around the middle of May 2016, my Mother in Law needed emergency heart surgery. So when my wife and I got to the hospital, they took my Mother in Law into surgery, and My wife and I were sent to the Surgical Waiting room.
While waiting, I'm searching the internet for antique tractors and implements for sale. I see an ad for a Case and a McCormick Deering for sale in Sparta, TN. In the photo, I see something cool and as rare as Unicorns on the Case DC, Eagle Hitch front weights! I Text the seller and he says his Uncle has passed and his Aunt doesn’t use a computer so he is selling them. He knows nothing at all about tractors. Remember I am at the hospital texting a 20-year-old in TN, trying to convince him that if he sells me just the front weights, telling him he can take my money and it won’t affect the price of the tractor, to think of it as a bonus. He says YES! I told him how to remove them and if he wants, he could just leave them right where they drop. A few hours go by in the hospital waiting room and my Mother in law is out of surgery and is going to be fine, and the kid has the weights off and in a shed. Yes, I did all this while my mother-in-law is having heart surgery and my wife is pacing the floor. (Don’t Judge...LOL) Now I need to make a plan to drive to Tennessee 535 miles one way from me to pick them up.
A week or so later, it turns out I have a friend of a friend who lives in Tennessee only 135 miles from Sparta, in Pigeon Forge TN. He volunteers (get it) to drive to Sparta and pick up the weights and keep them at his place until I make a plan to go and collect them. A few days later the weights arrive in the mountains above Pigeon Forge. That’s really helpful, as I don’t have to be in a hurry.
The next Saturday I see my neighbors packing up their Suburban for a week-long family vacation to, you guessed it, Pigeon Forge TN. My neighbor Bob says, sure I’ll go and pick them up when our vacation is over and we are heading home. A lot of moving parts in this deal and I really didn’t have to move much at all.
That's the story of my DC Eagle Hitch Front Weights.

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At that time I already had 2 DC's and was only a year or two since I finished restoring the one. Didn't need or have any reason to pick up another even if it was a foot clutch. Homelife was about to be disrupted moving mother in law into our home for full-time care and tight finances. My wife would on noticed a new "junk" tractor in the yard. She didn't notice me texting, buying, planning, or receiving 300 lbs. of iron. This was all in 2016, so the statute of limitations has expired...LOL
 
Would like to learn more about the front weights. I have a set for one of my eagle Hitch SC’s. Was it just an option on the later tractors to help carry the eagle hitch implements? Tractor that I planned to put the weights onto has adjustable wide front axle and cast wheels, should I worry about to much weight on the front of the tractor? I have the only set I have seen in person so they are not very common around here. Mike
 
Tod,

That DC is sure a beauty. I had never seen a set of narrow front weights until yours. They must have been designed to approximate the added weight of the heart on the wide front axles. That is quite a story on how you got them, thanks for sharing that one. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do LOL Don
 

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