Rough on Tires

[slipshod]

As many of you know I have a 4600 John Deere and it runs on R-4 Titan Rubber. This summer I have been extremely busy, doing a lot of driveway tear-outs for three concrete contractors I sub for. Broken concrete is very very hard on my tires, I picked up a slow leak in my right front tire on tuesday. Being so busy I was carrying the portable air tank til I had time to fix it. On friday I had just about finished up a job and did not keep a good eye on the tire. I made a hard turn with a full bucket and the tire popped off the bead. So I loaded the tractor on the trailer flat and all and went home. At the shop I left the tractor on the trailer and picked the tire off the deck with the FEL. The sidewalls on R-4's are very stiff being 10 ply so I used a ratchet strap around the circumference to push the beads out against the rim. As the tire took air I went to release the strap, when I did the force darn near broke my arm. I was reaching across when I pushed the handle to release the strap. OUCH! Will try very hard not to make that mistake again.
Then I fully inflated the tire and located the leak, used my kit called "duh" the tire plugger to fix the hole. I still had a bit of bubbling so I decided to slime this tire. Followed the instructions on the bottle as I rotated the wheel slime pushed out several small cracks it the thread area, so I actually had many leaks and never knew it. This morning I put the gauge on the tire and the pressure is right where I put it yesterday. On just this tire I have eight plugs in it. For some reason the fronts seem to get beat up more as I have only had one flat rear tire since 2000 and several in the front. One thing I do know is these tires are battle scared even though the thread is not worn down much, but I will keep fixing them as long as I can.

[ducati996]

No reason not to fix them if they have enough life (tread) in them - expensive little puppies when they do need placing

Duc

[Carm]

My dad used tire slime for the first time recently and now loves the stuff. Great for getting the rest of the life out of a tire.

[jdkubotamurray]

Were you thinking of trying 8 ply R1's?

[ducati996]

actually if you foam fill them, you never have to worry for the life of the tire right down to the threads :)

[CatDaddy]

Hey Duc!

You're talking about the stuff that sets up "semi-rigid", right? I wonder how hard it is to remove the worn-down carcasses & clean up the rims so you can install new tires.

[aguysmiley]

Hey Duc!

You're talking about the stuff that sets up "semi-rigid", right? I wonder how hard it is to remove the worn-down carcasses & clean up the rims so you can install new tires.


That's actually not that hard if you have a sawzall. By the way, how long did it take you to think up that tag line?

[CatDaddy]

Heh! You got it, eh? It took longer to find the special characters than anything else.

-=A=-

[MowHoward2210]

I had a slow leak on my left front of my 2210 that I couldn't find. I "slimed it" about a year and a half ago--problem solved.

I hear that Slime is water based, and will break down after a couple of years, so you have to reapply.



Heh! You got it, eh? It took longer to find the special characters than anything else.

-=A=-

I bet! :D

[aguysmiley]

Heh! You got it, eh? It took longer to find the special characters than anything else.

-=A=-

Ya I got it. It just hit me all of a sudden the other day. Very nice. :fing32:

[bobodu]

You guys seems to be missing the obvious...every meat eatin' God fearin' man knows how to get the maximum life outta something....YES!!! I"m talking...
DUCT TAPE!!! :fing20:

[fatboy84]

CD,

I got your tag line the other day too, and was amazed that you found the characters to create it.

What grade do you teach?

Very creative thinking...

FB

[CatDaddy]

This is my 6th year teaching 8th grade.

I keep waiting for a slot to open up at one of the local high-schools. The older kids are actually easier to teach. I'll be adding a couple of new certifications this year - Computer Literacy & Sociology (and maybe Psychology) so maybe it'll be easier to find a spot.

[fatboy84]

Good luck CD....

The wife teaches 3rd grade.

I admire both of you because I know I couldn't put up with all those kids day after day.

FB

[draddogs]

We tube all of our tires. It is a pain in the dirt moving field but we get super milage from our tires.

[JoeJ]

I remember a story a few years back in Farm Show. Seems this old fella was getting a lot of front flats on his Farmall from corn stubble. ROF Sooooo, he filled both tires with cement! ROF He claimed it solved that problem, but wasn't real happy with the ride. ROF

God I love Farm Show!! :fing32:

:omg: Maybe 2 issues ago they printed, in the shop tip section, a tip about the either/tire seat thingy!! That I thought was a grave mistake. I figure we all know about it, but would never advertise it.

[bobodu]

Saw that starter fluid trick too and am suprised they put it in print!!
"Hey...let's blow off our beards!!"
I don't think there's ANY air in the Farmnought tires....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v698/bobodu/PANA0199.jpg

[itsgottobegreen]

My front loader tires are tubed. The foam route is also good. But $100 would be what it would cost per tire to get filled. Front tires on any loader (from mini skidsloaders, to tractors loaders to backhoes to quarry size artlulate loaders) always get cut up. The quarries run special chains to try to protect the tires. Because at $10,000 a tire you would want too.