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Adding weight to rear wheels on mf65

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I have blacktop driveway & chains do damage to blacktop & was wondering if adding weights to rear wheels will I be able to plow driveway without getting stuck all the time. I live in the northeast where we don't get much accumulation, but last storm got 20". I also do our 800' driveway which is flat & graveled.
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Weight certainly makes a huge difference. I plow snow with a 2 wheel drive tractor/loader/backhoe with a 12' snow pusher. I get along OK because of the large amount of weight on the drive tires. Without ballast your tractor is too light for most any real pushing or pulling job.
 
Weight is definitely helpful. The cheapsest way is to fill the rears with fluid.However,If you get ice under the snow,no amount of weight will make you go. You'll need chains.Small tractors without weight are like a'hog on ice'.
 
I can’t see your blade that well maybe it will not turn around completely. It is a neck killer but I feel blading backwards is the best way to attack a heavy snow fall with a rear blade. Work down the drive in a chevron pattern. Like sargents stripes, see link.
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I've never done it, but I have heard of guys screwing self taping screws into the lugs in order to get more traction on ice. Not sure what that would do to the blacktop tho.
 
So with a gravel driveway just regrade it come spring. What do you think the rest of us do? If you want to plow snow and not spin wheels either get a MFWD on a tractor, or get a Cat with the tracks. Now it will push your snow without spinning and not getting stuck, unless you get real stupid with the Cat. Tracks will slide sideways on hard frozen ground sometimes or on real wet ground on real steep hillsides. Though I have not had that happen to any dangerous point in the past. Mostly just shift a bit as I pushed on stumps or something like that.
 
(quoted from post at 09:04:47 01/09/21) So with a gravel driveway just regrade it come spring. What do you think the rest of us do? If you want to plow snow and not spin wheels either get a MFWD on a tractor, or get a Cat with the tracks. Now it will push your snow without spinning and not getting stuck, unless you get real stupid with the Cat. Tracks will slide sideways on hard frozen ground sometimes or on real wet ground on real steep hillsides. Though I have not had that happen to any dangerous point in the past. Mostly just shift a bit as I pushed on stumps or something like that.
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Guy said in the OP [b:09dca76e73]"I have blacktop driveway."[/b:09dca76e73] I don't think that's gravel.
 
Personally, I would leave the chains on. Sounds like most of your work is on gravel. I can't picture those chains doing much more than scratching asphalt. If they are physically tearing it up, it is probably soon to be gravel again anyway. No matter what, pulling a back blade through more than 6" of snow without chains is going to be difficult, especially if it is wet.
 
On the frustration scale I would say its much easier to reseal your driveway every year when its nice and sunny. I would rather do that than fight all the time trying to plow snow in the cold and often dark without chains. My tractor is about the same size and weight as yours, and the few times I got caught plowing without chains it was a real battle. And the 800' gravel driveway you will need and want chains on that for sure. If you have any ice or packed snow you won't be able to move much snow without chains - and maybe not even move the tractor.

Tim
 
The chains on my 65 don't have the links holding the cross chains together. Consequently the cross chains will work down into the ribs on the tire. They do give me a decent amount of traction but they don't stick up so far that they chew up the asphalt.
when I have my snowblower on I have to keep it just off of the ground to keep enough weight to get traction.

Steven
 
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