Still have two flat tires

37chief

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I don't think I ever had two flats on the front of any of my tractors in one day. I was mowing a field that had lemon branches laying on the ground. Citrus trees have a lot of thorns. anyway the next morning both front tires on my MF 231 were flat, One tube required one patch, the other needed five. So this morning both fronts are still flat. I guess I know what I need to do day. Anyone ever had more than two flats in one day? Stan
 
I once had flat on a steel wheeled tractor. One of the front wheels fell off and laid flat down on the ground. LOL
 
Osage orange can do a bangup job too. You gotta get those thorns out or they will keep right on leaking. If tubless tires just Slime the dickens out of them.
 
Something like this?
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I was working road construction slip forming concrete barrier in the middle of six lanes of traffic. There was two rows of rebar one foot apart and four inches high that we where pouring over. The rebar was set in the concrete for a mile ahead of us. A semi trying to avoid hitting a car drove onto the shoulder and over the rebar. EIGHTEEN flat tires. It was late on Friday afternoon, so we went home for the weekend, so I don't know how long it took him to get back on the road.
 
Sort of but in this case the front wheel out ran the tractor as in when it came off it rolled about 30 feet ahead of the tractor before it went flat on the ground
 
two that's not that bad. a few times all day all I did was play with tires....start with this one we noticed yesterday, now need that with the flat...fix that, tractor got flat in field (grab a stolen spare to get that rolling) patch that, then the other side let off...............I think that one day I pulled ten or twelve tires,some multiple times(screw up mount, miss a pinhole or new hole).
 
Agreed. You probably need to dig the thorns out otherwise they will keep poking new holes in the tires. When I've run into this I just put a lot of "Slime" in the tube until the tire is eventually swapped out. Makes a mess out of tubeless tires.
 

Haven't had two in the same day but I had two rear flats on opposite sides a day apart on the same tractor.
Matter of fact I have 4 rear and 1 front flat on that one tractor in less than 3 weeks.
Left rear went flat again yesterday, 5th time in 3 years that tire's gone flat.
 
I had a slow leak on my Farmall A last year that would go soft over the course of a month. Aired it up this spring and was about the same. Finally got around to removing the tube and repairing last week. It had a Blue Spruce needle through the tire. I've been mowing around Blue Spruces' for 34 years, never had this problem. the tires are in great shape.
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