Wheel weights for a 782
I'm getting tired of sitting way up high on three or four bags of sand just to keep a little traction on the rear tires on my 782 with the snowthrower on the front.
A "local" (about 1/2 hour away) Case IH dealer says he thinks he has a source for new manufacture weights, and with shipping being nearly the cost of weights (I'm guessing) but when he orders big tractor weights from this place, he might be able to get them here much cheaper than any other way I can figure out.
Here's the question. How many weights can you fasten on to each wheel? I assume, not having seen the ones he's describing, that one puts each set on, and the next one out will someone have it's bolt slip through a notch or something and allow the next weight to be nutted on. I'm not sure yet how much each set will add, I'm estimating 60# or so, and is there a safe limit to how many a guy should hang on a rim before putting that rim in jeaprody of being bent or something with the inner bolt having to hold all the weight of the outer weights in place? Also, how much weight do you finally have to put on for it to balance out and have pretty good traction with a set of chains on? Is 120# per side in addition to the 60 I think I now have about right? I know last year when throwing the neighbor's driveway and getting to a little drop off I had a hell of a time backing up, and even with his 200 plus pounds standing on the hitch and leaning back we still didn't dig in and scratch up the hill as I'd want to.
I really don't plan on taking my machine to a plow day so I don't need a ton on the wheels, but I'm just looking for a guestimate if I do find I can afford to order some on how much I should tack on for it to be helpful.
I know there were some previous ingenious weights being cast from a sonotube and concrete, but I would like to go (if affordable) with the iron weights. And I don't take to filling the tires with calcium carbonate solution, I just worry about corrosion too much.
Is this the right track, or do you have easier solutions to the rear end problem (can't eat at Old Country Buffet, either, according to my doc.)