WinterDeere
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My loader is rated only 1600 lb, and even at that, Deere’s recommended rear ballast is more than triple what you’re running. Total ballast of 800 lb is almost into cat.0 SCUT territory.Yes. The blower is light, 450 lbs or so. The chipper is more of a load, 950lbs. We put the blower up on the shelf yesterday. Chipper will come down in the next couple of weeks. My Montana tractor front end loader is rated to lift 1600lbs to full height. Not sure I would attempt that. At 950 lbs the back end gets really light, even with an 800lb concrete weight on back. Maybe I need a lot more rear ballast. My Montana has a 28hp 4 cylinder Mitsubishi engine.
Check your manual, but they probably recommend more like 1500 lb on rear hitch + loaded tires + wheel weights, for a loader with that capacity. Usually overkill if you’re on a flat garage floor, that accounts for terrain. But even if you go half that, you’re under-ballasted by maybe 3x with nothing but 800 lb on the 3pt.
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