I say it's a good excuse for you to buy another tractor to have the contest :). Buy yourself another 830 and have a pull-off. Be sure to have the same size tires inflated properly and the same amount of weight on both units. I wish I could perform a real live controlled test for you with measuring drawbar pull between like tractors with the two different types of ballast but I just don't have the instrumentation to get it accomplished. I'll just have to take the experts word for it as well as my own experiences.
I can speak from experience that rigid tires have noticeably less traction than soft properly inflated tires on properly sized rims. Dad kept stobbing the 18.4x34 radials on a late 4020 pulling the rotary cutter across some cruddy ground. He decided that 14 ply forestry tires were the ticket. The forestry tires don't take on punctures but they made the 4020 not a good choice for field work. It just spins like a bantam rooster scratching the ground. It cuts deep ruts pulling the 14 ft disk it used to pull with ease with the soft squishy ag tires. Adding fluid to a tire makes it rigid which means it can't conform to the ground it simply digs a hole to China.
Michelin Ag suggests iron ballast over fluid for the reasons listed in the presentation. Why would they lie? Iron ballast makes their product perform better than liquid ballast.
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