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Do yuo guys have any ideas for cheap removable weight, something i can sawp imbetween tractors, i dont really want to spend 100 bucks for a single suitcase weight, but maybe you guys have some better ideas?
 
I have several hundred feet of six inch solid round bar. It weighs about 100 lbs per foot. It will slide into six inch pipe. Bolt the pipe receivers where ever you want on the tractor. Weld handles on the end of the bar sections.

If you can't cut the steel, we will have to negotiate a price based on saw cut or torch cut. Or you can buy one of my bars and deliver it to a steel retailer or fabricator.

I want $0.20 a pound for uncut bar. Bring a trailer as the smallest piece is around twenty feet. I am near Lowell, MA.

I also have some of the same steel bar fitted with heavy brass couplings. Diameter is around nine inches. Weight is probably around two hundred pounds a foot. Let me know if you want a picture.
 

I've seen homemade containers attached to the tractor and then filled with rocks, chunks of scrap iron, even those old house window sash weights. Pretty much anything will work, just make sure it's secure and can't fall off.
 
I also have many feet of 1-1/2" drill steel that could be placed in a box.

I also have 3ea eight foot pieces of solid 4"x4" steel bar. Don't know the weight without looking it up. Probably 50-60 lbs per foot.

I also have 28 tons of busted up flat cast iron. Biggest pieces are around 30 lbs.

That't it for now. I have alot of other junk but these items would be best suited for what you want.
 
I had a problem with the front of my "H" getting light after I put a 3 point and tandem on her.
I bolted 2 3 foot long 3" U channels to the front frame. Drilled a hole for a bar and used dumb bell weights (available at garage sales CHEAP)
Only drawback was that they stuck out to far and I couldn"t see them. A couple of fence posts later I learned.
 
wardner, that would be great, i just have to think of a way to make a bracket, send me an email of cut prices
 
i was also thinking of this, as i have roughly 200 pounds in weights already, but i would still need to find more, at the least i want 500 and at most i want 1500, so wardners idea would be easyer
 
The "send email" function on this site no longer works for me. There is something wrong with my puter. My regular email is fine. Send me an email at wardner@peoplepc (dot) com and I will get back to you.
 
I"d go looking for used tire weights to toss into a front mounted box.

Or if it"s rear weight, check out a plastic 55 gal drum and fill it with water.

Old schoolbus hyd brake rotors, Car sized brake rotors stack real easy on a rod or bar and are a heck of a lot cheaper as scrap than new steel.

A chunck of granite.

Cast some rebar into some concrete as mounting points and hang it under the tractor where needed.

use what"s cheap and easy to obtain

Hope that helps

Stumpy
 
Stacked up plow shares for weight in a stock car. Put threaded rod through in a couple of places, holes all line up.
 
If you know of a factory that uses steel shot to blast weldments before painting, the shot that gets too small is about 3 1/2 to 4 times the weight of concrete. It could be had cheap. Build a box to put some in. A 55 gallon barrel would weigh about a ton if my memory serves me right! However if it gets wet and sits a while it becomes solid. (rusts into one lump)
 
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