DonRybak
Gold Member
I finally decided to purchase a 3pt ballast box for my RK37. After watching numerous YouTube videos seeing what others have liked and not liked I decided to purchase one from Rural King, Most of the dislikes on the videos was the fact that the tabs the lift pins mount to had questionable welds and to be safe they re-welded them. As I was searching information on the different brands I noticed that Rural King sells two different sizes. One is by King Kutter with something like 800lb capacity and one by Top Dog Industries that make the RK grapples. It only has a capacity just over 400lbs but with loaded tires I figure that would suffice since about the heaviest thing I lift is round hay bales averaging 800 - 900lbs. Also what kind of drove me that direction is the fact that the lift pins are mounted directly to the box rather than on tabs.
I was planning on filling the box with concrete but since the mounting nuts for the pins are on the inside that would make them non-accessible if I ever needed to change one for some reason.
I was thinking about blocking an area off on each back corner to prevent the concrete from filling in those areas. Then I thought about just buying the bags of concrete and wetting them done so they would be hard when dried so that I could just load then in there and they could be removed if I needed to access that area. But then I wounder if I would ever need to change one of those pins and am I just thinking too far out of the box.
Anybody have opinions here?
Thanks........Don
I was planning on filling the box with concrete but since the mounting nuts for the pins are on the inside that would make them non-accessible if I ever needed to change one for some reason.
I was thinking about blocking an area off on each back corner to prevent the concrete from filling in those areas. Then I thought about just buying the bags of concrete and wetting them done so they would be hard when dried so that I could just load then in there and they could be removed if I needed to access that area. But then I wounder if I would ever need to change one of those pins and am I just thinking too far out of the box.
Anybody have opinions here?
Thanks........Don