Has anyone ever made concrete wheel weights?

[js5020]

I actually built those holders 10 or so years ago for an old wizard walkbehind tractor I had. They are currently mounted on a wheel horse, so they even swap around. I like them because you don't have to wrestle with a 50lb chunk all at once, steel or cast weights especially 10s can generally be had for free around here. It takes seconds to put them on or take them off.

DAC, CRS (can't remember stuff) runs rampid around here to. I'd start making a to do list but I'd probably forget I made it or forget where I put it!!

 

[MFDAC]

I actually built those holders 10 or so years ago for an old wizard walkbehind tractor I had. They are currently mounted on a wheel horse, so they even swap around. I like them because you don't have to wrestle with a 50lb chunk all at once, steel or cast weights especially 10s can generally be had for free around here. It takes seconds to put them on or take them off.

DAC, CRS (can't remember stuff) runs rampid around here to. I'd start making a to do list but I'd probably forget I made it or forget where I put it!!

It looks like your mount is working great, JS! Cool it swaps to a variety of equipment! I understand the CRS problem very well!

DAC

 

[KennyP]

I have a couple 25 # bar weights, but the rest are 2.5 or 5 #. No 10's.

 

[Bgkid]

I accumulated quite a bit of lead to make wheel weights. I used my turkey fryer burner to melt the lead and then poured it into a cheap nonstick cake pan from wally world. They came out at 45 lbs each. 2 per wheel works rather well. I am going to make 2 more per wheel for pushing heavy snow.

 

[KennyP]

I accumulated quite a bit of lead to make wheel weights. I used my turkey fryer burner to melt the lead and then poured it into a cheap nonstick cake pan from wally world. They came out at 45 lbs each. 2 per wheel works rather well. I am going to make 2 more per wheel for pushing heavy snow.

I've made a couple out of lead that weighed 65 lbs. each.

 

[jason silliker]

If one could get their hands on a lot of old ball bearings. Like marble sized or bigger that would make a nice heavy weight. Using them in concrete

One of our freezers at work runs on a ball chain with 2300ish 1 inch balls that we changed out last winter….should have saved some lol

 

[BMaverick]

I once found this image on TBN with a mold for a concrete weight. I saved the image as a just in case needing to do the same.
Thread is titled, MyLittleRedTractor DIY Pacman (Suitcase) Weights, and the person was thunderheart.

The image title is around the date as the post of that thread.

These will fit a John Deere, Yanmar, Iseki, some Mitsubishi, Hinomoto, the Ford 1000 Series and a few others.



For my machine, I have the drawing of the John Deere/Yanmar weights.


John Deere are the same



And the Iseki are very close.


They are about 20Kg (42-lbs) weights.

There is a larger set being the 30Kg (66-lbs) weights called the 70-lbs in JD terms.


The 3D CAD files are in the zip file for those who like to play around with those things.

 

[SimplyRad]

There is a guy about 19 miles north of my that makes cat 0 & 1 weight bars for the suit case weights and he also sells JD 42 # weights.

 

[MFDAC]

My latest bright idea is to save my steel barbell weights to build rear wheel weights and to use concrete test cylinders for front weight on the MF 1450. If I build a 12"x12" inside dimension box out of angle iron, that would add 100# to the front. They are 6"x12" and weigh 25# each. The tractor front end got pretty light when I hauled a small block Chevy short block on the 3 point drag!

DAC