[AT] weighted tires or not

[Aaron Dickinson]

Only one of my tractors has loaded tires and it has a loader on it. My other loader tractor has rear wheel weights. For me plowing is the only time when a little more weight is nice, (dirt or snow), but I have wheel weights if nessary for dirt plowing, and tire chains for snow plowing. The only time I have had a hay wagon push me around due to lack of traction, is when using the front hitch and pushing a wagon while trying to turn sharp, and then it isn’t so much the wagon pushing me as much as the tractor trying to keep going straight and not turning (good time form turning brakes) and it is the front end that slides.











From: John Hall
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎May‎ ‎26‎, ‎2019 ‎8‎:‎32‎ ‎AM
To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group





  Some of you guys may remember I had to replace the tires on our 454 
Utility tractor a couple months ago (about 40hp).  I didn't have time to 
add water to them before I started using it. One of the first jobs was 
to spray some wet fields. Got to thinking, this thing weighs about 1,000 
lbs less now---that is a good thing in wet ground. Spraying, mowing, 
tedding hay is about all I do with this one. Occasionally I have to move 
a loaded hay wagon with it (probably about 5-7,000 lbs). Wondering if I 
should leave the fluid out of the tires?  We've had this tractor since 
72 and it has always had loaded tires. The only time I am thinking I may 
really need them loaded is using a scrape blade (for heavy work, not 
touching up a driveway), in the snow, it isn't often I have to scrape 
snow but it happens every few years, or moving heavy wagons--especially 
backing them up. Tractor is not 4WD, it does have a set of wheel weights 
(always has had) and we live on some rolling hills--there are places you 
don't go with any tractor. Whats the groups thoughts?

John Hall
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