FILENAMES: counter-weight-1-RS72-C.jpg counter-weight-2-RS72-C.jpg DESCRIPTION: These are pictures of tractor counter weights. Posted by Fitch R. Williams . The following description was provided: ================================================================= The pictures: counter-weight-1-RS72-C and counter-weight-2-RS72-C are of the counter weight that I built for my John Deere 770. Looking at picture counter-weight-1-RS72-C (rear view) the two slabs of metal stacked on top of each other on the bottom are 16" by 32" by 2" steel plate. They arrived as a 32" square piece that I cut in half with the gas axe. The angle iron for the lift frame is 3 x 3 x 3/8". The weights in the center are 40 lb front end weights hung on a 6" x 3/8" bar cross beam. They are retained by a cross rod that can be seen (the rusty rod) in the picture counter-weight-2-RS72-C. When the cross rod is removed the weights can lift right off to be installed on the front end of the tractor when mowing. Storing the front end weights on the counterweight made it 200 lbs heavier with out adding any more material, and gave me a place to put them when the loader is installed. Since this weight is on the tractor most of the time, I added three towing eyes along the back edge, and welded a receiver on top of the plate slabs that will take a standard 2" square trailer hitch slider. I nearly always carry a couple of short chains on it with a slip hook on one end and a grab hook on the other. Fitch