Rear wheel weights on 1066

I have 5 on each side of the donut type weights. Found a casting# BW 516. Wandering what the weight of each is. I also have chloride in the tires. I am thinking I want to pull the chloride out as this tractor does not do heavy tillage. Most it will pull is maybe a 14 ft. disk but mostly dirt scraper, round baler. Figured I could add more of the donuts as I just do not like the prospect of a flat and salt everywhere.

If they are IH weights then they weigh about 145 lbs. each. So that is over 700 lbs on each back wheel. If you are not doing heavy pulling then that should be sufficient.

Thank you very much Randy. Yes, they are IH. I suspected as much but not sure and wanted to ask the more knowledgable.

If you aren't pulling more than a fourteen foot disc, you could remove the chloride & wheel weights & have plenty of traction. The benefit would be less compaction. We just have chloride in ours, & have never lacked for traction.

I'd yank 'em all off and dump the fluid, as all that weight is accomplishing is costing you fuel.

The 1066 is a heavy tractor. I use two on each side and this ol' skunk is a pullin' maniac.

Allan

Well myself I might dump the wheel weights but i would never remove the cal. we have one 1066 with loaded tires and that tractor belongs to my one buddy and she has loaded tires that are Firestone Field and Road with tread that is around 60-65% , neighbor has a 1066 with one year old Firestone's that are the Altrac's Field and road in 18.4 X38 that tire is a lot better tire then we have on Eugene's BUT no fluid. They pull a 13 and a half foot disk and spin up the hills with it they can not even pull a 3/4 loaded silage wagon up the one hill on the tar and gravel road as they spin out . Now they have added five sets of donuts and they still are spinning in the field with the disk . Ya have to remember that a 1066 has some giddy up and go power and if it like most 1066's that i have been around SHE AIN"T STOCK setting on the pump and you will burn more fuel by slipage then you will with fluid in the tires . Yes i know all of the down sides of fluid in the tires BUT , if you FIX that thorn hole or small leak when ya first notice it and ya keep the tire valve from leaking then you won't have rusted out rims.Plus the fluid makes that tractor more stable . One can never stack enough iron on to equal the fluid. and you will not get the same traction with the iron.

mjs: Your livin in the dark ages, 1066 doesn't need either chloride or wheel weights, unless your pulling 30 tons on a paved road.

I bought my 1066 new in 1975, 20.8x38 tires loaded to the limit with chloride. In 1,000 hours it completely ruined those tires. I was pulling an 88 blade, 20" blades, disk harrow or a 24' feild cultivator. I dumped the chloride, bought 4 new tires same as originals, bought rims for axle duals. That set of tires lasted 9,000 hours and it pulled the disk or cultivator much better than with chloride and single tires.

Equip her like Allan's, if you want to pull in the feild.

Pull a 1020 20' Kewanee disc and 11 shank chisel with '76 1066, first attempt yielded alot of slippage, duals with no calcium and one set of donuts... dumped the weights, filled with fluid.. pulls like a champ!

Ya can't run duals with a 5-16 semi-mount plow. One has to come off so the wheel can fit in the furrow, and the other is sticking up in the air, not even touching the ground.

New Armstrong (IIRC) 20.8 radials, full fluid, and 4 sets of iron, and the 1066 still spins pulling that plow in our ground. Before Dad added the last three sets, it would just sit on top and dig a hole on old sod. Now, at least it moves.

Mkirsch: If your 1066 wont pull 5x16 plow without chloride or weights, you best turn the farm into an Interstate Highway. Hell, my 656 with 16.9x38 and no chloride or wheel weights pulled 5x16 plow 8" deep at 4 mph. I will agree, I had quite easy plowing in sandy loam. I had a 1066 with duals, but I certainly wouldn't waste it pulling a measly 5 bottom plow.

I'm pulling a 720 IH 4 bt 18" semimount plow with my 1066, tires are loaded but would prefer rear wheel weights. Tires are 34's and we turn the ground over well in low third.

We do not use chloride. We use straight water about 90% fill. Tractors are kept inside and we may get 3-4 days a year that it actually freezes (25-32 deg). We do not do much heavy tillage, but the H2O seems to give more side-slope stability and helps on loader tractors. We even have water in the Ford 841.

Only drawback I see is if you spin in a soft spot, you almost sink immediatly. It is a two-edge sword for single (2 tires) tractors. No water you loose traction. With water, you carry more weight; compaction, trailering weight, strain on tires, rims can rust, ect. I choose to run H2O.

Charles