Suitcase Weight Question

[Hay maker2]

 

[Tx Jim]

Lower notch is to accommodate peg built into lower side of weight bracket that keeps weights from sliding side to side when more than 1 weight is bolted together. I don;t know what top notch is for.

 

[DarrelB]

The top notch goes against a round piece in the center top of the weight bracket. When putting on a set of weights, the first two weights sandwich the round piece on the bracket to center and secure the weights. The remaining weights are put on from the center out.

 

[D-]

Maybe if you put them on upside down??? LOL
How have you been TJ?

 

[Tx Jim]

(quoted from post at 10:33:08 03/12/19) Maybe if you put them on upside down??? LOL
How have you been TJ?

I think not so. Peg I referred to is on the bottom side of frt bracket
I'm just getting older. LOL

 

[DarrelB]

The peg on the bracket goes to the top. We have 4 John Deere tractors with those kind of suitcase weights and that's how they came when we bought them. Hope this helps.

 

[matthies]

So what models do you have DarrellB?

 

[islandgreen]

On some European models there was a hole in the main weight bracket in the
center for a pin that was held in place with a large hair key.This extended up
into the top grouve.

 

[Tx Jim]

(quoted from post at 14:42:43 03/12/19) The peg on the bracket goes to the top. We have 4 John Deere tractors with those kind of suitcase weights and that's how they came when we bought them. Hope this helps.

DarrelB
My memory from when I PDI 30 & 40 series tractors thinks peg goes down. My 4255 operators manual shows the frt weight bracket peg pointing down. I'm trying to get a photo to upload to back up my statement.

 

[Tx Jim]

Here's the photo of frt weight bracket from my 4255 operators manual

f frt

 

[DarrelB]

Sorry, I was wrong. The peg does go down. The groove on the top of the weight thru me for a loop. We have a 4440, 4250, 4455, and 4555. I don't know what the top groove is for.

 

[mattroh]

We have a 7280R, the weight bracket has a hole vertically through it with a roughly 1” diameter pin in it that extends both above and below the weight bracket. What tractor would have had this that would have come from factory with this style weight is beyond me though.

Matt