[ramsport1500]

A short survey about ballast
What do you use if any ballast in your truck for offsetting the plow?
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[MOWBIZZ]

I just use some bags of household (water system) salt pellets. Each bag is 40 lbs and I have 10 in the back. When I bring some in the house, I'll replace them a couple at a time...seems ok so far...no problemos...may get a few bags of sand too...got stuck (very minor) but if my brother hadn't been around with a bucket of sand in his truck I would have been in trouble for a while anyway...rear wheels were on ice and the plow was hung on a snowbank on it's highest position...couldn't go back or forward...just dug around the plow with a shovel to give it some room and all was well...

 

[bribrius]

cement blocks framed with 2x6's and held together with threaded rod.theres a pic somewhere of it in a old thread of mine.

 

[canoebuildah]

980 lbs of tube sand on the bed of my rack body. I built a wood crib out of 2x10's and 2x4's and covered it with plywood to secure them. The weight is at the end of the bed.

I used to drop a load of road sand in the bed of my old rack body. However, the new method is much better as it is cleaner and puts the weight where it belongs.