thorns and front tires

Bikerider

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I have a 73 3000 with a front loader. Bought new tires and wheels for it as the old wheels were cracked and repaired several times by previous owners. I went with 3 rib 4 ply tires. While clearing some of my property with a brush hog on this tractor, i ran into some thorn bushes. Seems the thorns like to make holes in the tires and tubes. Looks like this could be a problem as this tractor is heavy on the front with the loader. What kind of tires do you think may be more thorn resistant ? I patched the tube and cleaned any thorns I could find from the tire, and am going to add some green slime to both front tubes to help but just wondering if a balloon type tire would be better. I have a 9N and have cleared this same property with it, thorns and all and never had a problem, but the 9N does not have a loader on it and is pretty light on the front. ( I would be using the 9N , but the PTO is not working and its on the list to be repaired).
 
Tire liners will virtually eliminate thorn punctures. They were unavailable for a time but recently have been once again available.

Dean
 
Sounds like my kind of luck, I'm not a believer in the slim though but others may have success with it, I just recently had to buy a new front tire for my Polaris Ranger 500, I had ran over something like a thorn or nail, had tire patched, keep leaking down, couldn't find another leak, put a tube in the tire, same thing with tube, it leaked down so I put the green slime in the tube and a week later tire was flat just sitting in the barn so I put a new tire on it. If I was in your situation I would be using that front end loader bucket to push up as much of those thorny bushes as I could before I drove tractor in that spot to bush hog...
 

Thanks for the info. Never heard of a tire liner, but did a search and there are some made here in Ohio. I will buy some and install them and can get on with the land clearing without the flat tire delays.
 
slime will just make it harder to find theholes in the tube when it goes flat next time. let the tires get some age to them ( they get harder with age) they will be more resistant to the thorn punctures. What brand tire did you put on it? Some ofthe cheeper ones have such thin casings about all you can do is sw***.
 

I agree. Liners look to be around $70.00 each. stumbled on a product called Tyrfil. Called the local dealer, $115.00 each to fill with this and the tire becomes semi solid and will never flat. Might be worth it. Anyone ever hear of this stuff? It does add 75 pounds to each of my 6.00 X 16 tires.
 
I use steel belted radials on my loader tractor as in used truck tires and then I take an old tube and cut it open and lay it in the tire and then put in a tube. The steel belts of the radial slow thorns down real good and the front tire do not dig in as bad in soft ground
 
I've been using tire liners for abour 40 years or so.

Only one puncture on multiple tractors since started using liners. Multiple puncturers each tire every tractor each year prior.

Dean
 
I'm with Old on this. I run load range E tires on my half ton truck. I drive over alot of mesquite on some of these cattle leases and don't have to fix tires. I save the old ones for tractors and trailers.
 
(quoted from post at 19:56:00 10/07/15)
I agree. Liners look to be around $70.00 each. stumbled on a product called Tyrfil. Called the local dealer, $115.00 each to fill with this and the tire becomes semi solid and will never flat. Might be worth it. Anyone ever hear of this stuff? It does add 75 pounds to each of my 6.00 X 16 tires.

I used a similar product 25 years ago. worked great now the tires are coming apart but not flat.
 
(quoted from post at 07:39:31 10/09/15)
(quoted from post at 19:56:00 10/07/15)
I agree. Liners look to be around $70.00 each. stumbled on a product called Tyrfil. Called the local dealer, $115.00 each to fill with this and the tire becomes semi solid and will never flat. Might be worth it. Anyone ever hear of this stuff? It does add 75 pounds to each of my 6.00 X 16 tires.
nother thorn solution:


I used a similar product 25 years ago. worked great now the tires are coming apart but not flat.
 
What you want are used aircraft tires. They have a lot more plies than anything else you can get that will fit, and are pretty much indestructible. Check out genscotire.com; tell them what tractor you have
and they'll set you up with appropriate tires already mounted on rims.
 

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