leaving a flat tire filled with calcium

carvel minne farmer

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want to share some pics of what happens to a tractor rim when you don't fix a calcium filled flat right away :( I did manage to find used rims and 2 18.4 x 34 tires at westlock tractor parts today, $250.00 each rim, $450.00 each for 2 tires that I was told have 75% trad left! we will see when I get there. john
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We have a old U-302 working tractor I been using all along on a regular basis. Last
Saturday I was doing some difficult bush-Hogging with a 7 ft mower cutting heavy Brome
grass along a tree line that had never been cut for a long time if ever. The area is
narrow & steep and the trees would rather grow sideways out over the field since they are
overgrown and nelect-ed so long.

I mowed a long time -moved some stuff around so I could park in a shed when done -mowed
some more heavy grass and parked the tractor in the shed at the end of the day. Before
leaving went back to check something and the tire had sprung a leak and was spraying
Calcium cloride all over. I was lucky that there was a jack handy and got it turned up so
it saved most of it and more luck it did not happen out in the trees on a steep place.

My rim has a hole as big as yours and I have discarded at least 3 other rims with big
holes in them. It just seems like if Calcium Cloride is involved sooner or later it going
to ruin the rim. People will argue as long as it is in the tube no damage will occur but
most of my rims are getting rusty even with new valve cores & air in them. As long as I
can get by I am going to advoid using that stuff again. cleddy
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(quoted from post at 05:04:02 08/19/17) Is that USD or Canadian? That's about twice what I sell them
for.
that's Canadian $ but with exchange, duty, gst taxes, shipping etc it will come out to the same price landed in my yard ! john
 
kevin when my wife saw that rim in the back of the truck she got all excited and it's destined to be a flower planter in the yard!! at least it won't end up at the scrapers :lol:
 
cleddy I have to agree with you, and the 2nd. m5 will not have calcium in the tires, now that raises a question I have on ballasting tires, merl at the tire shop says that the only purpose he agrees with calcium is on a loader tractor, or heavy pulling, i.e. plows or other heavy implements. we all see first hand the downside of calcium. the other tire that was flat the only corrosion was around the valve stem which was leaking, the inside of the rim looked like new. I was able to clean up and grind out the corrosion weld it back up and machine it back down nice and smooth for the new tube and stem. I know most of the members here have a lot more tractor time than I do so what is the general consensus on putting ballast in the tires?
 
cleddy nice to see the 302 still in her work clothes and still getting the work done, and she's not old, she's experienced!! I was driving by my neighbors last week and he had his new j.d. hooked to his round baler sitting in the field with a j.d. service truck and mechanic and his lap top plugged into it trying to get it going. wayne did not look amused anybody know where I plug the laptop scanner into my m5??
 
Yeah that is a good point. I have some extra plain rims and with one of them fixed up most
likely will need the extra weight of the fluid with the loader. It is already heavy on the
front and maybe to big for the tractor and much weight of anything in the bucket makes the
back just light enough to spin & get stuck easy. I have some wheel weights but that does
not hardly add up as much as calcium cloride. Back in the day when my Dad was farming 300-
400 acres with 4 row equipment everything had Calcium-Cloride and was pushed to the limit.
After all most of these rims are 50+ years old so if some of them are repaired and last 50
more years that will be more than I need anyway. cleddy
 
I'm a little sorry I bought that loader and did not think it through very good. It is a WL-30 Westendorf loader and well built & too heavy and near impossible to mount on a wide front tractor without dis-assembly. I had just had experience using a New Idea 503(for Allis WD) loader which was wore out - welded&reinforced - Broken up more which was so close to the front of the U302 that stuff on the bucket would hit the tractor and wreak the grill. Any loader bigger was better than that!!!

I bought the loader for the M-602 which was a better match but not ideal and gave up on that idea after fixing it up and not wanting to destroy it again. Best solution was purchasing a Skid-Steer loader but lots of money a long road of mistakes to get too. Thats the ticket as long as you have some help and don't exit out under the bucket.Cleddy
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good morning cleddy, I was out to farm near devon yesterday and they have solved the ballast with calcium problem! they fill their tires with -40 windshield washer fluid! its not quite as heavy as calcium but its close! no corrosion and no rotted rims john
 

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