Ballast

[wpala]

Moving a have lead with the FEL is always fun but feeling the back wheels taking off while you doing it it is a bit scary, so I always wanted to build something I could quickly attach to the back of the tractor, box blade is fine but a bit wide and it takes a while to hook up. My option was to make a cradle to attach to quick hitch a made earlier, now I can just back in to a cradle that holds a barrel full of rocks and old iron put 2 pins and be done works very well and it holds a bit back of the tractor so it increases the the weight I can now safely carry



Paul

 

[George2615]

Looks good.
I use a 55 gallon plastic drum filled 3/4 full of cement. Mine weighs about 850 Lb. and hooks to my Harbor Freight quick attach hitch in seconds.

 

[wpala]

very nice that was my second option

Paul