Kurt- not only is it a mean-lookin' stance, it's extremely stable, and it doesn't sink into the yard much with a heavy bucketload. I don't imagine those Clarlisle USA Trail trailer tires will grant much grip to side-hills, but I won't be mowing with this rig anytime in the forseeable future.
Terry- Yeah, I'm a ham-radio operator- top-dawg liscense... that's what you're seein' on my liscense plate.
The Rotary Phase Converter's idler motor weighs a tad under 200lbs, there's probably another 150lbs in bracketry, boxes, contactors, and capacitors up there, and down inside the bucket (but hidden in the shade, and behind the idler) is a Group 27 deep-cycle battery and two 14' log-chains. The tires needed a tad more air- I seated the beads with my dad's pancake compressor, and didn't get 'em pumped up fully. The rears look a little light, but they're actually about right- I've got lots of fluid, but very little airspace, and I think the pressure's around 10psi yet... they're a tad 'firm'. I'll be installing a weight-bracket in the back, and probably fit another 250lbs back there in a few weeks.
Had a vertical-stack muffler arrangement (actually, I borrowed it off the 109) but it got too close to the loader arms for my liking, so I took it off. I'll change what you see there... possibly go down and to the rear (like a
F@rd N) or bring it around the front, and mount a QL muff down fairly low. We'll see.
Tire chains? With that kind of ballast, who needs chains?