Loaded Tires

Hobo,NC

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Location
Sanford, NC
When I brought my new Bota in 2014 I told the owner I would load the tires myself as I had 55 gal of good used antifreeze. When I paid for it he told me the guys in the shop already loaded them he would waive the fee. I asked how much antifreeze they put in the tires he said 2 gal each. I used it today its almost unusable the water in the tires are froze SOLID are the rear ends broke... Its a ruff ride just putt'N around looks like I am going to get to load them myself. 3" of snow on the ground those R4's are as useless!
 
(quoted from post at 19:41:16 01/08/18) When I brought my new Bota in 2014 I told the owner I would load the tires myself as I had 55 gal of good used antifreeze. When I paid for it he told me the guys in the shop already loaded them he would waive the fee. I asked how much antifreeze they put in the tires he said 2 gal each. I used it today its almost unusable the water in the tires are froze SOLID are the rear ends broke... Its a ruff ride just putt'N around looks like I am going to get to load them myself. 3" of snow on the ground those R4's are as useless!

Must be a little one to only take 2 gallons! I bought a 60 hp tractor out of CA years ago, went to move it in the early spring and thought the rear end was going out....just frozen water in the 18.4 x 28's, but boy did they make a racket. Had to leave it set till it warmed up.
 
I got R 4 on mine to and it is worthless in this snow. I cannot put chains on it but I am thinking
about studding the tires. I use it on a couple miles of blacktop in the spring and I don't know
what would happen to the studs on the blacktop
 
R-4s are, indeed, worthless in snow.

R-1's a bit better but not good.

Turf tires better yet but you will need chains for anything serious in snow.

Dean
 
I have never heard of putting anti-freeze in a tire. When i worked at a tire shop we always mixed a calcium chloride
solution. We mixed a 5-1/2% solution for cold area's and a 3-1/2% for everyone else
 
You will find out they thaw REAL SLOW too. I have bought several tractors out of the south that had straight water in them. They do ride rough while frozen.
 
Well you know what they say about if you want a job done right... I guess the previous owner never had them freeze.
 
(quoted from post at 22:02:30 01/08/18) I have never heard of putting anti-freeze in a tire. When i worked at a tire shop we always mixed a calcium chloride
solution. We mixed a 5-1/2% solution for cold area's and a 3-1/2% for everyone else

Calcium chloride can be nasty stuff when the tube starts leaking, and a lot of people these days are avoiding it like the plague.

Leaked antifreeze will just kill your dog, your neighbors' dogs, cats, squirrels (maybe not a bad thing), mice (also not necessarily a bad thing), woodchucks (definitely not a bad thing), etc.. But that's okay, your rim won't rot.

The one thing about CaCl solution is it's heavier than water. A saturated CaCl solution is pushing 10lbs per gallon. Every other alternative is lighter than water. 50/50 antifreeze is under 8lbs per gallon.

My understanding now is that fluid in radial tires is bad, hard on the tires, and defeats the purpose of the radials.
 
(quoted from post at 01:02:30 01/09/18) I have never heard of putting anti-freeze in a tire. When i worked at a tire shop we always mixed a calcium chloride
solution. We mixed a 5-1/2% solution for cold area's and a 3-1/2% for everyone else

Serious ? Popular topic here in this site for 15 years is liquid ballast that is not that corroasionncausing calcium Cloride .
 
(quoted from post at 22:02:30 01/08/18) I have never heard of putting anti-freeze in a tire. When i worked at a tire shop we always mixed a calcium chloride
solution. We mixed a 5-1/2% solution for cold area's and a 3-1/2% for everyone else

Antifreeze in tires has to be at least in the top twenty of topics here.
 
A neighbor bought one that a jockey brought up from the south. First real cold night,he found out the hard way that the tires weren't the only thing that was filled with water. That one cost him a block.
 
Based off experience with studded snow tires just running down bare blacktop roads you will eventually wear low spots where the rear tires run. Takes hundreds, maybe thousands of passes. If the tires slip or spin like when pushing snow you will dig little grooves in blacktop and concrete. Same as running tire chains.
 

after seeing frost on the tires in another post I just looked at mine looks like they almost pumped them full... I should have done it myself I just had to move a few things around with the loader parked it till I can pump some more antifreeze in'em...

I made a counter weight don't need the extra weight of calcium chloride.. :evil:
 

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