DIY Tractor Counterweight
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2015
- It's nice when there are cheap and easy solutions to problems on farm. I just didn't want to pay for a counterweight. Or at least not much. The idea I came up with is really effective, doesn't have to look to pretty, and at the end of the day, it's just weight.
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Good video! I built one 25 years ago from a plastic 55 gallon drum 3/4 full of concrete/rocks (900#?). It has a steel mast for a rigid top link (to stop swaying/sagety), a draw bar lower down (that'll give more ground clearance when raised) and finally a reciever hitch. All steel components are welded together prior to cement/rock pour. The drum sides from the concrete to the drum top is a good place for tool storage. I use it on a 1952 Ford 8N for heavy farm work all the time....it works great 🤠
Great farm vids lately! Thanks for sharing, it would be great to see a demo of this stuff, it'll give you a better idea of the function and purpose of whatever you're showing us.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Excellent solution, John.
Because my first metal barrel rusted out, I used a leftover 50 gallon plastic chemical barrel to do something similar. I welded two tall pieces of heavy steel angle iron 90 degrees to the drawbar an appropriate distance apart, with a hole in the top. That way, I have a perfect place to hitch my center lift link. One other thing I added were two tall four inch pieces of PVC vertically in the barrel before filling with cement. I use those to place my axes, shovels and other long handles tools before heading into the woods.
I Like that idea: " I added were two tall four inch pieces of PVC vertically in the barrel before filling with cement. I use those to place my axes, shovels" That works great I bet.
Nice touch.
Awesome. Thanks for the suggestion. I be gonna get er done😊
Perfect solution. Ran into the same issue with the scoop tractor.
Can you show the chain hooked up to the bar?
I'm not tough enough for farming anymore so nowadays I just play like it lol thanks for your video you gave me some ideas
I have a Massey Ferguson 1045 w forks on the bucket along w wheel weights, while moving a round bale the tractor can get a little tippy, this should help, thanks, Dave!
I needed to limb up several hundred trees on my property as a wild fire prevention measure, and I didn't want to spend weeks on a ladder. I took a IBC tote, removed the plastic tank, slid it onto the forks of my tractor and secured it to the forks with a chain. Standing inside my diy safety cage with a small chainsaw and a pair of heavy duty loppers and my dad running the tractor, I knocked out this project in two days. You also want a ballast box on the back of the tractor for this and keep it as low to the ground as possible.
What Cat. Is the draw bar you used?
y don't u put the top bar on the 3 point hitch on the reverse ring
How much does that weigh?
John, You never updated us on how the pigs were growing...
any chance you can show a short video on how this works in action? Thanks again for sharing John.
5 years later... Nope
God damn that's genius
like to see it in use
Perfect,..get's the job done, nothing wrong with that, and you save that important cash too.
With one exception,.... you forgot to paint it John Deere green with yellow bands. I mean if it's a John Deere accessory then it gotta match, right ? ( Now I'm kiddin', of course!)
Great idea... my Kubota is very light in the butt...
I have one build a little different
That sucker looks heavy. 1000 lbs at least my guess.
Do not copy this design. One day while you are attaching it to the tractor you will raise the arms a little to make it easier to fit the toplink. The barrell is top heavy and it will roll over on top of you. I got a bad scare from one of these thirty years ago
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