I was thinking about the posting below looking for factory Ford 801 weights. It made me think about all of the things I have seen used as weight over the years.
1) Most common Ford weight when they had a bumper was an old engine block Just run a chain through the empty cylinder holes and go around the bumper. A buddy restored his Grand Dad's Ford and he painted the old engine block his Grand Dad used as a weight. He puts it on when he goes to shows. He says he get more comments on that than the rest of the tractor. Usually guys telling him how they used to do the same thing.
2) Any make or model with a home made box on the front. Fill it with your personal weight choice. My Uncle's was all of the Ni*** head rocks he found over the years in the fields. My cousin had those rocks laid into her new house fireplace wall. She says she thinks of her Dad every time she walks past it.
3) Any different brand of weight used on another brand of tractor. When I just started farming I was running a Ford 6000. The weights for the front of it where not real common. I found these weights off of a Allis Chalmers that where kind of a suit case weight. They where $25 for eight weights. They weight about 50 lbs each. They just hang on a flat bar with another flat bar that slides into the T shaped slot to hold them on. I made a bracket to use them on that Ford. I still have them and they now are on a JD 3020 that I use on my feeder wagon. That mounting bracket has enough holes that it looks like Swiss cheese. LOL I have had them on several different tractors over the years.
4) A neighbor has a IH "M" that his dad bought brand new. His dad cut a lot of timber to make ends meet. Money was always tight. The father was good friends with my Grand Dad. They both where "tight" with the money. LOL He needed more rear weight to put logs with that "M". So they took the rear rims and tires off. They laid them flat and then made a form that allowed you to still get to the axle wedges and tire valve. They then hand mixed concrete and filled the rest of the rim up completely, even around the wheel wedges. No changing the wheel spacing on that one. LOL The real funny thing is that Calcium has rusted the center of the rims out over the years. The concrete was formed around the rim so well that it holds the tube just fine across the holes. They had made the concrete cover the outsides a few inches as well. So he has a concrete rim now.
So what have you guys used or seen used over the years that is not quite "factory"
Just forgot about a tractor I traded in one time. It was an Oliver 1600. The old owner had a stack of bridge planks several feet thick bolted to the front end with reddy rod. He needed the extra weight plus he pushed his grain trucks out when stuck with his bumper/weight. He complained that his "new" tractor did not have that on it.
1) Most common Ford weight when they had a bumper was an old engine block Just run a chain through the empty cylinder holes and go around the bumper. A buddy restored his Grand Dad's Ford and he painted the old engine block his Grand Dad used as a weight. He puts it on when he goes to shows. He says he get more comments on that than the rest of the tractor. Usually guys telling him how they used to do the same thing.
2) Any make or model with a home made box on the front. Fill it with your personal weight choice. My Uncle's was all of the Ni*** head rocks he found over the years in the fields. My cousin had those rocks laid into her new house fireplace wall. She says she thinks of her Dad every time she walks past it.
3) Any different brand of weight used on another brand of tractor. When I just started farming I was running a Ford 6000. The weights for the front of it where not real common. I found these weights off of a Allis Chalmers that where kind of a suit case weight. They where $25 for eight weights. They weight about 50 lbs each. They just hang on a flat bar with another flat bar that slides into the T shaped slot to hold them on. I made a bracket to use them on that Ford. I still have them and they now are on a JD 3020 that I use on my feeder wagon. That mounting bracket has enough holes that it looks like Swiss cheese. LOL I have had them on several different tractors over the years.
4) A neighbor has a IH "M" that his dad bought brand new. His dad cut a lot of timber to make ends meet. Money was always tight. The father was good friends with my Grand Dad. They both where "tight" with the money. LOL He needed more rear weight to put logs with that "M". So they took the rear rims and tires off. They laid them flat and then made a form that allowed you to still get to the axle wedges and tire valve. They then hand mixed concrete and filled the rest of the rim up completely, even around the wheel wedges. No changing the wheel spacing on that one. LOL The real funny thing is that Calcium has rusted the center of the rims out over the years. The concrete was formed around the rim so well that it holds the tube just fine across the holes. They had made the concrete cover the outsides a few inches as well. So he has a concrete rim now.
So what have you guys used or seen used over the years that is not quite "factory"
Just forgot about a tractor I traded in one time. It was an Oliver 1600. The old owner had a stack of bridge planks several feet thick bolted to the front end with reddy rod. He needed the extra weight plus he pushed his grain trucks out when stuck with his bumper/weight. He complained that his "new" tractor did not have that on it.
