Why is the tractor important
The importance of tractor ballasting | TMT
assists helping hand with your name Neal
from Essex here today is three minute
Thursday today's short conversation is
going to be about ballast
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often times online you see pictures that
guys are sharing with the back ends of
their tractors popped up in the air with
a huge load out on their loader and
they're almost sharing them with an
element of pride really want to caution
against that and give a little bit of an
explanation of why we think ballasting
your tractor is really important
unfortunately I believe there's a lot
way way too many unbalanced in tractors
out there in the market and there's an
easy reason for that is that the
salespeople are going through the
process of selling a tractor to somebody
it almost sometimes feels like customers
get the impression that we recommend
ballast as some kind of extra profit
add-on you know that kind of thing that
comes at the end of the conversation of
buying something that feels like it's
getting crammed in there to pad the
dealerships bottom line and with ballast
that's not actually the case for at all
ballast is a really important part of
taking a tractor and setting it up in
order to operate safely and at its full
capacity any one of the machines that we
sell today regardless of the
manufacturer the brand the type of
loader that setup of the loader you name
it any one of those machines is gonna be
able to lift loads heavy enough out in
front of the machine that's gonna
require some kind of ballast in the back
end of the tractor that ballast can come
from a lot of different places you can
see this machine right here has iron
weights on the inside of the wheels
sometimes we'll have other tractors that
will have big cast this on the inside
every manufacturer offers ballast boxes
it can go into your three-point hitches
you can put implements on your
three-point there's all kinds of ways to
get that added weight on the backside of
your machine and it is so needed it's
needed not just for those heavy heavy
loads that you're gonna lift in order to
balance them out safely it also has a
lot of implications for a wear and tear
on your tractor when you go through and
you think about the front axles on your
machine when you take that loader and
you lift those heavy loads in the front
you're putting all that strain onto the
front axle but by taking extra weight
and throwing the back end of the machine
you can move that pivot point back
towards the center of the tractor and
start to share some of that loader
weight between the front and the rear
axles and that's really important
particularly on small tractors one of
the more common repairs that we do is
work on the front axle knuckles where
the axle comes up and goes through its
turn and meets the main axle coming
across the front
those axle seals in there are a
maintenance point it's a wear point
because of all the load and the weight
that we throw out in the front of these
machines so take that to heart you want
to make sure that your machine is
ballasted you know for all those reasons
for wear and tear for safety you name it
it's just a really important thing that
you need to think through and operating
your machine and understand when the
dealership has that conversation with
you it's for your own safety and the
operation of the machine not something
that we're looking just to pack into a
deal for a couple of extra bucks so if
you're going through the buying process
for a piece of equipment or you have
parts of service needs the machines that
you already have give us a call of
message we're available at 800 2 2 2 3 3
7 3 or online at message
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