Tire ballast

Ted in NE-OH

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My AC I-400 loader is light on the rear when I use the bucket. Rear tires are 14.9-24 if I fill both tires with CaCl , how much weight would I be adding?
 
According to a John Deere publication I have from WW2 called "Keeping your Farm Equipment in the Fight" 461 lbs per tire.
This is for a 13.5x24 tire using 137.6 lbs of chloride and 38.8 gallons of water.....not exactly a 14.9x24 but it should be close.
 
Ted,14.9x24 hold 47 gallon-water-392 lbs
47 gallon-rim guard-503 lbs
47 gallon-Cal Cloride-580 lbs @ 4 lbs Ca.Cl per gallon
You have to have tubes in your tires with Calcium Chloride.
 
(quoted from post at 21:57:20 11/19/15) My AC I-400 loader is light on the rear when I use the bucket. Rear tires are 14.9-24 if I fill both tires with CaCl , how much weight would I be adding?

Why invite trouble with ultra aggressive calcium Cloride salts ? Water and alcohol/windshield washer fluid works just fine . Better yet external cast iron weights.
 
Ted.Here is some more info on tire ballast.Ca-Cl is very corrosive to your rims if you get any leaks,so you decide what is best for you.
Ballast
 
CaCl is not so bad so long as you get leaks fixed when they happen. Old tractors with residual fluid that sit and leak without repair do suffer rim corrosion. New tubes last a long time, and 500# of cast iron are big weights on a 24" wheel.
 
buickanddeere- Just for the fun of it. Not including environmental damage or costs, just thinking
off the wall type stuff...


Fill the tires up with Mercury! LOL! @ 113.4 Lbs/Gallon X 47 gallons = 5,329.8 Lbs. per tire! And
it still remains a liquid at lower temps(-37.9 degrees Fahrenheit)!
 
i myself would find another way to add the weight,i used to consider loading my tires, but i bought a john deere recently with slightly rusted rims i asked the owner if he had loaded tires, he claimed they were not loaded, well, yes they were, now the tractor is sitting ,as one of the rims rusted from the inside out and by the time i started seeing damage around the valve stem hole the wheel was ruined, got 2 new ones coming, as well as tubes, i imagine the other one isnt any better, and i would rather work on it here than as far from the farm house as the tractor can get which where it usually will be when it gives out
 
All the weight removed from rear wheels is on front wheels. Adding tire ballast does nothing to remove weight off front . You need to add rear ballast on 3 pt. I made a 1100# rear ballast ballast for neighbor's MF so he can left hay and not have front wheels go down in mud.
 
(quoted from post at 00:00:18 11/20/15) buickanddeere- Just for the fun of it. Not including environmental damage or costs, just thinking
off the wall type stuff...


Fill the tires up with Mercury! LOL! @ 113.4 Lbs/Gallon X 47 gallons = 5,329.8 Lbs. per tire! And
it still remains a liquid at lower temps(-37.9 degrees Fahrenheit)!

Outstanding answer . Wish I had thought of that . Alright if I can quote your info in the future ?
 
my chart for a 14.9-24 tire shows the tire will hold 47 gallons of straight water, for maximum ballast, the tire will hold 38 gallons of water and 190 lbs of calcium chloride, for a total of 507 lbs per tire, and giving you the 47 gallons of solution. when you mix the calcium with water, it will get very hot. let it cool for a few hours before loading the tire. you may want to put new tubes in before you load them, depending on how old the tubes are. i brush two coats of por-15 rust conversion primer on the inside of the rims and let it dry overnight. the stuff is tough as nails, and if you do get a leak, the calcium wont damage the rim. napa or farm and fleet will have the fill valves, and a cheap drill operated pump (about 10 dollars from home depot) will pump the fluid in. on my farmall m with a loader, i run 614 lbs ballast in each tire, and 4 wheel weights. it keeps the hind end down pretty good !!
 

B&D, Just went online and checked the price for Mercury, $3433.33 per gallon would seem to be a bit steep for my blood at least. I suppose that 10-15 gal.would be enough though.
 
I used old antifreeze filtered and decanted to fill my 14.9x28s. It was close to 55 gallons per tire. I used two pressure regulators to pressurize a plastic barrel to 5 psi and let the air push the fluid in. I used a gemplers auto bleed valve. After filling my tires, I gave my apparatus to a local farmer. He has put it to good use. A lot of good use... It added nearly 500 lbs per tire for me.

Aaron
 

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