Box Scraper converted to rear ballast....

[opie74]

All good points and I didn’t intend to discount any of the previous ones.

I’ll stew on them for awhile, I’m in no hurry.

 

[fried1765]

Sell the box blade for a few hundred and spend a small portion of it for your own custom ballast box.... I have about $50 into a 500 pound one for my SCUT.... You really want your ballast to be as compact as possible, it runs into thing if it covers to much territory...

Dale

Absolutely correct!

 

[opie74]

The box scraper was my primary ballast on the 2650, I'm used to its presence on the back of the tractor and it will have a smaller footprint on the 4060. I also do not operate in confined conditions so there really isn't anything to hit other than a pile of wood.

 

[opie74]

Well, the 4060 was able to lift these with just a 72” blade on the rear. I think it would have been fine even without the blade.

So I’m just going to build a simple block of concrete.

 

[Xfaxman]

Well, the 4060 was able to lift these with just a 72 blade on the rear. I think it would have been fine even without the blade.

So I知 just going to build a simple block of concrete.

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I saw the Log-Lift bags on Mike's channel: Ideal Solution for BULK FIREWOOD? Massive Bags That Hold The Weight #1011 - YouTube

 

[opie74]

I bought 6 to try them out compared to the Dino bags... Ill likely go with the Dino bags based on nothing but cost. A pallet of 200 gets the cost down to $10 per bag.

 

[opie74]

Copied another members idea, seems to have turned out well. 16 bags of 60# mix with some 1/2” rebar I had lay around.

 

[camshawn]

I recently needed a little more ballast for some fork work. Craigs list yielded the flat bar pieces for a good price. The bottom piece is bolted to box blade. It took a few hours to drill the holes. Easy to undo the threaded rod and add/remove pieces as needed. An extra 500 lbs. was a little much, 300 just about right for a full bucket of gravel.

 

[opie74]

Looks good, and functional.

Here’s how the concrete turned out.

 

[TractorNH]

Looks like it turned out great!