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Old 01-29-2012, 05:19 AM
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Default Cheap $ 6.00 added weight gizmo.
With my 280lbs. stout torso on my # 122 in snow & wheel weights w/chains I didn't want to go fancy with suitcase weights. So for $6.00 I just came up with some 3/4" pipe & 45lbs. of iron weights. The weights were so rusty & looked like crap. I brushed'em & sprayed some left over Bed Liner spray.


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Old 01-29-2012, 09:10 AM
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That needs to be braced to something so you don't bend the drawbar; you are applying a bending load to it that it is not designed for.
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Old 01-29-2012, 09:14 AM
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The weights look great nikster
That ought to give the 122 a little more bite
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It looks like it might twist at the T fitting and maybe swivel at the hitch pin. If the hitch can take it, it looks like a good idea with maybe an added support.
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Old 01-29-2012, 12:09 PM
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It looks like it might twist at the T fitting and maybe swivel at the hitch pin. If the hitch can take it, it looks like a good idea with maybe an added support.
I snug it down REAL THIGHT with a lock washer & lock tite.
It looks a mile long but its only 8" away from the back of the hitch, 3/4" pipe should be enough to hold it since its flush on the underside & to the back of the hitch. I squirted in some lock tite on the threads.

We'll see?

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I snug it down REAL THIGHT with a lock washer & lock tite.
It looks a mile long but its only 8" away from the back of the hitch, 3/4" pipe should be enough to hold it since its flush on the underside & to the back of the hitch. I squirted in some lock tite on the threads.

We'll see?

Nik,
Good idea on the Locktite. I was thinking tack weld or setscrew, but, Locktite is much better!!
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Old 01-29-2012, 12:48 PM
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It looks a mile long but its only 8" away from the back of the hitch, 3/4" pipe should be enough to hold it since its flush on the underside & to the back of the hitch.
That's roughly equivalent to 150# tongue weight of a trailer, which is really pushing it. If you go over bumps it may start drooping. Even a cable or something from the top of the vertical tube to the holes for the 3-point pivot pin on either side of the seat bracket would be enough to keep you from bending the hitch plate.
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Old 01-29-2012, 02:29 PM
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Whoa dere? 150 lbs. Is alot. Didn't think of those #.

My drive is as flat as an bowling alley, so we shall see what happens after a few good runs?
If it holds fine, but then if it doesn't then I can see a extension to the seat bracket.

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If you bend it, hit me up I got spares you can have for the the shipping! Good idea using what you had!
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Thank you for the offer. But I have an extra hitch hook up just in case.

I took it for a test drive for about 15min., yesterday in the yard. I saw no problems with the set up. That's why I mounted the 3/4" pipie under the hitch. To create upward pressure on it. No movement of the pipe since it's got lock tite on all threads & & quite pleased with it.

Now if it would only snow? Last year at this time we had a blizzard & had OVER 24".

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