Well this could be an Indiana trip killer for me...

I've been scrimping and saving to be able to go to Indiana this year. I traded trucks and all to be able to pull a trailer up there this year. I go to get on my MF 175 this morning to bale hay and this is what I find...not good at all. This tractor is how I make my money during the summer.

another CC ruin job. how long has it been leaking? that valve stem did not happen overnight.

Your tire guy might be able to patch that split.

Jason we have a shop that vulcanize tires. If you have a local shop they can repair it. The local shop here can repair any size. Its a lot cheaper than a new one. You may just need a rim.

(quoted from post at 03:07:33 07/13/14) Jason we have a shop that vulcanize tires. If you have a local shop they can repair it. The local shop here can repair any size. Its a lot cheaper than a new one. You may just need a rim.

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I don't think there is a shop that will vulcanize tires here anymore. We used to have one but they closed a few years ago. On top of everything else,I don't have a way to pick that tire up and take it to town. I don't think the TO-20 can handle that....lol.

No it didn't happen overnight. It's pretty much looked like the rim on the other side since I've owned the tractor. When the rusted chunk came out I'm not sure but it has had to of been in the last month. I just got thru fixing a rear rim on my Super A. I may have to do the same thing to this one if I can figure out a way to get it off and loaded to take it to town. Last time I looked I think a new rim was $600.00

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Jason - I think you have the ability to repair that rim if you can weld. Depending on the inside of it of course. A welder a torch (to heat & end) some 11 GA sheet metal. I did one on my Case 20 years ago -still looks decent & looks like the day I did it. I also ran cc (only been in OK 13 years. Gonna pull the tire off this fall -Scared of what I'll find. Propylene glycol from now on.

Polyproplewhat? Hey I hope there is a special place in a hot place for who ever invented calcium chloride in tires. Not to come up with an excuse for collecting junk, but a rim too rotten to repair is a fine donor for the exact compound curves to cut a nice well fitting patch.
This beet juice to load tires??? Don't that turn into Ukrainian vodka after a few months? got to experiment with some of that stuff... got to taste better than calcium chloride...

had same thing on my rim welded thin medal over hole and drilled valve stem hole on other side kept right on going no problem

We never run our tyres with anything but air in them....never can
understand why tyres need to be loaded??? Those tyres are running
too soft anyway, cracks up the sidewalls. a simple patch on the
inside and cover the tube with something(maybe even an old tube
split and fitted around the good one?) and it will last for
years....well if it gets you to La Grange.....you can worry about it
after!!!!
Sam

(quoted from post at 23:20:26 07/13/14) We never run our tyres with anything but air in them....never can
understand why tyres need to be loaded??? Those tyres are running
too soft anyway, cracks up the sidewalls. a simple patch on the
inside and cover the tube with something(maybe even an old tube
split and fitted around the good one?) and it will last for
years....well if it gets you to La Grange.....you can worry about it
after!!!!
Sam

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Loaded tires are pretty much a neccesity here in the mountains. If you ever had to pull a corn picker with a loaded gravity wagon behind it up some of the mountain sides here,you learn to appreciate loaded tires. I can remember being about 12 years old on our TO-30 with loaded tires using a sickle mower in a field behind the house. I was driving across the field mowing and it was so steep sideways that the tractor was sliding down the hill sideways. On dry ground! I imagine if the tires wasn't loaded on that tractor I probably wouldn't be sitting here right now. I have all four tires loaded on my TO-20 with antifreeze. Before it just had the rear tires loaded and when I would plow in the clay here the front end stayed in the air. That and when I would rake hay and pick the rake up to turn at the top of the hill I couldn't. Now I don't have that problem. I would say 98% of the tractors here have loaded tires. I was working at the local Massey dealer the other day and they sold a new 60hp tractor to a guy in the mountains and they loaded the tires with methanol and turned the rears around to make them as wide as possible and adjusted the front to match. The old farmer said that was the only way he could keep from turning it over in his hillsides he was farming. I am lucky I guess, the square fendered diesel 135 I worked out a trade for a while back is the first 100 series I have ever saw that had wheel weights on the rear instead of loaded tires. At least I won't have to worry about this problem with that tractor.