All-metal wheels/tires for WD?

The reason I ask this odd question: I am clearing some pasture land that is in danger of becoming completely grown over. It hasn't been mowed in years. There are many, many thorn trees (popular here in Georgia) and I can only get about an hour's use out of my front tires before they fill with thorns and go flat. At about $15 a pop for a fix and new tube, this is getting old in a hurry.

I've seen people put steel-belted radials on tractors to solve this problem, and it helps some, but that won't work on this one because it's a narrow front tractor.

So I thought about having a set of metal tires that I could use only when I find myself cutting over land that has so many thorn trees that will make my rubber tires go flat. I know tractors had metal wheels/tires exclusively back in the 1920s and earlier, but is there anything like that around that would fit a 1948 AC? There's a great old tractor junkyard not far from here that I could check out.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Tim

Where I work, we have a bunch of rubber tire Case backhoes. Our guys always seemed to find nails, spikes, whatever which attributed to flat front tires. After many flat repairs, my Goodyear rep turned me on to "foam filled" tires. Since I had this done, we haven't had a flat since! That's been 5 years ago! Two drawbacks to foam filling though, once the tires are wore out, you have to throw-out the wheels as well as the tires. Second, it's not cheap to foam fill. Because we have quite a few machines, it was a tremendous savings for us. Just food for thought. Steve B.

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Good luck,
Phil