Weight Rack Placement

[phil51]

I have a Farmall Super H and am planning on putting weight racks for suitcase weights in front of the rear axle. I am curious to what is the best way to attach the weight rack to the tractor itself.

 

[535353m]

"BOLTS" I just could not resist. LOL

 

[showcrop]

You don't want a weight bracket ahead of the axle on an H unless you are pulling above 6000 lbs. I have mid brackets on my Ford 9000 but nothing goes on them until I have added 2000 lbs. Make the physics of moment arm work for you.

 

[535353m]

are you perfect on guessing how much is needed on each end of tractor,being in the middle with some makes you only half off if guess is wrong.LOL

 

[LCB]

There is 2 holes in the casting not to far from front you draw bar bolts under the belly. Make the bracket as long as you want weld to flat steel to it drill holes and drill holes and bolt in the hole on each side. If you take drawbar bracket of you may have to put bolt in front hole to keep it from working back. I would not pull without my center bracket.

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 17:46:02 08/28/15) are you perfect on guessing how much is needed on each end of tractor,being in the middle with some makes you only half off if guess is wrong.LOL

Well I have seen some guys with really big weight brackets in the middle. I suppose it makes it a lot simpler if you just put a lot in the middle instead of trying to figure out where you really want it.

 

[PretendFarmer]

Where your weights will go depend on track conditions and chain length. When I pull a short chain I have maybe a couple weights on the back rack in 5500 class, I have a rack bolted to the bell housing and on short chain that's where most of my weight goes. . But on another clubs long chain(and I mean LONG), I fill that back rack up completely. I also haveone just in front of the rear axle as mentioned. I have another that comes off the front. So I have lots of options depending on tracks and chains.

 

[Farmall47]

Showcrop, LCB has pulled an H more than anyone on this site. I too have an H and use a belly bar. You can adjust your weight very well using it. Weight there will benefit both front and back and not make it
noise heavy. Walk the the walk before you talk the talk. Andy Bolsen

 

[techinny]

I made brackets that I bolted to the frame rails, the rear bolt is actually in the bell housing casting and the front bolt is in the frame rail, but the holes are spaced so that I could move the bracket further forward if needed. The weights hang parallel to the tractor so that one weight could be more forward or back, usually I have one weight on either side for the 4500lb class and 2 on either side for the 5000lb class.

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 06:03:47 08/29/15) Showcrop, LCB has pulled an H more than anyone on this site. I too have an H and use a belly bar. You can adjust your weight very well using it. Weight there will benefit both front and back and not make it
noise heavy. Walk the the walk before you talk the talk. Andy Bolsen

Soooooooooooooo, Farmall 47, do you live down the road from me or are you one of the newer pullers here where I have been pulling for the last seventeen years that you know so much about my walk? I was responding to 535353M, not LCB.

 

[Farmall47]

No not a newer pull but I pull an H and it sounds like you don't. Belly bars can work on H at lesser than 6000#. Don't know where you live doesn't really matter.

 

[Oregon Tractor Jack]

I can get some pictures of what I have done on my H if you want them.

 

[Oconnor]

Leroy has been pulling his H for a long time, but it pulled a very long time before he got it. Tracks will dictate where weights are placed to balance the H. I used belly racks to help get up over 4500, over time, I had weights behind the axle, plus on the belly rack, plus, in the the middle at the flywheel, plus a pair of brackets at the front wheels on the frame, and had a 24in from front weight bracket. Having placement options does get you down the track.