Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 14, 2009 at 04:42:19 from (216.208.58.188):
In Reply to: Liquid tire ballast posted by james t orth on February 13, 2009 at 11:00:03:
James: That liquid ballast has saved more lives on loader tractors than any other factor. It's all about lowering the center of graviety, and that factor suggests added weight as close to the ground as possible. Nothing come closer to ground than liquid in tires.
I've seen more low use tractors upset than high volume loaders going full out all day. Problem is they think, oh I'm not doing much, I can get away without ballast. It only takes one slight side hill event with a loader bucket above radiator cap, and over you go. My dad's first loader tractor was a Farmall H with 4 wheel weights, maximum chloride, and when doing a lot of loader work, barrel of concrete on drawbar. Of course the barrel had to come off for doing PTO work. Usually the bucket or whole loader was removed for PTO work. One day H was parked loader on, but no barrel of concrete. Dad needed a bucket of gravel from a stock pile he had, rushed out in the rain to get the gravel. On the way back, bit of a side incline, the uphill rear tire went over a stone, H and dad landed on it's side. Luckily no damage and dad only got wet. Got another tractor, pulled the H back on it's wheels, checked the liquids and carried on.
My point is this didn't happen when he was full out loading 5-6 manure spreaders all day. When he got the H it was only loader in our neighborhood, he loaded all the manure on 5-6 farms, and most of those manure piles were not loader use friendly. Side hills, holes, etc. were the order of the day. The contorsions I've seen my dad put the old H through getting that manure are nubelieveable. No, this happened on a day he doing indoor concrete work, and just needed 3 wheel barrow loads of gravel.
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