Ballast Box Dimension

[aim4gold]

If you were building a custom ballast box for a B3200 (500#) how far from the bottom would you center up and place your bottom arm pins?

 

[skeets]

Try this thread, theres a bunch of ideas and maybe you can get some ideas

http://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2765&highlight=weights

 

[Eddie Jr.]

Do you have a rear implement? I was offered a ballast box from the dealer with the purchase of my loader, but I opted for the discount as I was buying a rear blade that works very well for rear weight. The box blade I recently acquired is even better at almost 500lbs 2feet back of the tractor.

 

[skeets]

Sounds like a deal, what I am useing is my land pride rear blade only about 150 pounds but works ok on my little bouta but then I have the tires filed with 50/50 anit freeze and wheel weights too. I was useing an old washtub filled with cement on the 3pt on the old cub it worked but werent real purty,,lol

 

[aim4gold]

A rear scraper or any rear implement is fine for ballast but now you have to watch out for one more thing when backing and turning. A compact ballast box with tool holding features is the way to go.

I want to keep my cg as low as possible so I was thinking about adding pipe legs to the 4 corner of the concrete ballast box that I could drop down when I want to unhook.