Taking tires off the rim

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What are the proper tools to have for pulling tractor tires off the rims. I've got 2 sets and wonder if a crowbar will work.
 
I'll see if this picture works. Sometimes you break the down by driving around with the air let out but you risk spoiling the tube.
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I have a bfh too, I never broke a bead with it. but the chick across the street did. This is like a circus thing where if you don't kill yourself you win a teddy bear.
Press on the sidewall as close to the bead as you can with a loader bucket. A lot of work just manhandling the thing, and 20% of the time I cause a leak by pinching the tube..
I use baby powder instead of dish soap, that seems too slippery- and I creamed myself in the forehead a couple times with a crowbar... it was like an Irish fighting joke, ' I swung me face into his fist and bit his knuckles with me teeth'....but it wasn't a joke... seriously thinking about retiring and letting the tire shop kids do it for 50 bucks.
Atleast it ain't the heat of summer.... good luck and be careful...
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If you have the tire off the rim you need a duckbill tire hammer, 2-36" tire bars, tire bead lube, NOT DISH SOAP, That gal has the duckbill tire hammer backwards. The bead of that tire is pretty well trashed from not using good bead lube. Its far easier to change rears by leaving them on the tractor.
 
If you don't plan on saving the tire/tube running it flat around turns makes it real easy.

Or it's like the one on my brothers 150 when the old tire/tube said it's had enough.
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To break the bead I have used a loader with down pressure, the fast hitch on a Farmall 300 which also has down pressure, and a sledgehammer. The fast hitch is for sure the handiest. I have bars ranging from 2-4' long, some crowbars, some pinch bars, nothing made officially for tires. I have changed fronts and rears, biggest I have done was 14.9-38. It is heavy work but it could be worse. I am too cheap to send it out anymore.
Zach
 
I ain't saying a word bout that gal. Are those half
buried tires yard art? Thought that was a southern
thing. I never thought of using the fel.
 

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