Baby Grand
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- Joined
- Nov 12, 2007
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- Location
- Windsor, CT.
- Tractor
- Kubotas: L3240GST B2320HST B5100D & G5200H
I need a better ballast especially for use with the grapple. I want a compact but heavy ballast. I have a pretty cool idea for a ballast but I found the stuff to make it but IDK if the place will sell it to me. I may end up making a concrete ballast.
You can get scrap steel "drops" from a manufacturing / welding shop -- cheap. Use that as filler inside the cement to up the weight. If you can get old tire weights those are even better.
Best be saving up them wheel weights to make cast bullets. The last lead smelter has been shut down by the EPA in December. Now all lead will have to come from overseas.
Bullet castors will be willing to pay real money for wheel weights.
Thanks for all the replies. I also used the Woodweb calculator. I was curious to see what you guys came up with. Yes I did lift it with the tractor. I may have been able to lift a little more. With grapple weighing around 450lb, the SSQA on the loader @ 100lb, and the log at 3625 I was lifting 4175lbs.
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