Homemade weight's

[olds45512]

I got these weights on a 124 I picked up a while back, they fit inside the wheel and I thought they may be from another brand. I started work on the tractor yesterday and the first thing I did was pull the weights off, it turns out they are homemade but very well made. I got a bit of a surprise when I took the first one off, they are solid lead and weigh 55lbs each. It looks like they were cast using a cast iron skillet, they are tapered on the sides and you can see the pour spouts sticking out the sides. These will look nice painted yellow on the 128 for when it get the loader.

[twoton]

Originally Posted by olds45512

.... they are solid lead ....

Hmm..., that's an idea. To bad I just gave all my lead to the black powder guys at The Club.

[olds45512]

Originally Posted by twoton

Hmm..., that's an idea. To bad I just gave all my lead to the black powder guys at The Club.

That much lead may be hard to come by these days, people use to give it away but then it became valuable but that may be over since the price on scrap is down.

[john hall]

Neat weights. I don't know about lead prices, a while back one of the auto stores was paying $20 ea for full sized batteries. The other stores were paying $10. I need to check as we have about 4 to get rid of.

[Randy Littrell]

The bottom 4 weights are lead. I used a cake pan for a mold and drilled the hole in the center with a 1" drill bit. I think they are about 26 or so pounds each. They work really well.




Randy

[jaynjeep]

Originally Posted by olds45512

I got these weights on a 124 I picked up a while back, they fit inside the wheel and I thought they may be from another brand. I started work on the tractor yesterday and the first thing I did was pull the weights off, it turns out they are homemade but very well made. I got a bit of a surprise when I took the first one off, they are solid lead and weigh 55lbs each. It looks like they were cast using a cast iron skillet, they are tapered on the sides and you can see the pour spouts sticking out the sides. These will look nice painted yellow on the 128 for when it get the loader.

Nicely done! Had a buddy that used to collect used wheel weights from the tire stores.. He would make all kinds of sizes and shapes of weights for the pullers around here.. I was always scared to go over there when he was melting lead... had all kind of green fumes spewing out the back door of his shop when he did it..

[zippy1]

Those'll look good cleaned up and painted. I see the resemblance of the fryin pan, good idea.

[cubby102]

I've been playing with the idea for a long time of making a sand cast of a ih weight out of pure lead or a "stronger" mix. I did the math once before and they really wouldn't weigh a whole lot more iirc it was less than 15 lbs.

I've also played with the idea of using a old wheel as a mould to make a "fitted" weight that would sit down flush with the back side of a valve stem which would still allow a ih weight to be bolted on top. Just haven't gotten around to gathering the lead. Only have maybe 80 lbs at the moment

[clay1811/44c]

My 1872 came with these. I wander if I could make a plaster cast of a wheel weight and re-pour?