Weight of rear wheel?

What do you fellows estimate an 18.4 x 34 rim and tire would weight in at? The tire has KCL ballast about 2/3 full in the tube. I have a slow leak that I need to top up once a week but as we get colder that’s going to become harder to do. I want to jack the tractor up and drop the rim off and take it in for repair. I tried this once before but found I could not move the wheel once it hit the ground. Was forced to call the tire man out and it kind of made the guys job a bit more difficult. A call out is $350 bucks before they touch the tire so that’s just not going to happen unless I win the lotto this week. Just wondering if it’s going to crush my truck box sides?
 
The CaCl2 fluid in a 18.4-34 tire should weigh between 800 and 1000 pounds depending on the freezing point of the fluid. I would add another 500 pounds for the tire, tube and rim, but you could check those weights online.

I don't think that would completely crush a side of a pickup bed, but it could do some damage. Can you haul it laying flat on a trailer?
 
My car hauler has a 16’ wide shop door sitting on it that I bought in a moment of madness. I am trying to avoid unloading it until spring. I was hoping that the tire would sit in the truck box but if you figure it could weigh over 1400lbs I had better use the trailer. Thanks for the numbers.
 
The best thing to do is haul the complete tractor to the shop. They prefer doing it on the tractor and a lot less work. That’s if u have someone with a trailer. Where in Alberta are u ?
 
I would think that it would take longer and cost more to fix the tire laying on the ground as to having it upright mounted on the tractor. If it's a slow leak , I'd drive it in to let them fix it on the tractor!!
 
They must be very light, not weight much at all. I had a 18.4x34 mounted on a power adj. rim with the cast center from a 1850 walk away from here. Scrapers where carrying stuff out of here last time the prices were high. No idea how they loaded it. Must have rolled it down the road out of here. Dogs kept barking for a few nights. I told my wife it was just deer in the hay field that were teasing the dogs. Amazing how hard thieves will work, but not want to get a job. They even walked spare engine blocks out of a apple crate away. Al
 
Open station, -10 to -15 outside and 1-1/2 hr run to town one way. Not looking forward to the drive? Maybe if we get a couple of mild days after Jan 1st I will try it.
 
Those were committed thieves. If they tried that at my place they would have had a couple of runaways on the downhill slope to the main road. I think my hills and driveway potholes help to keep the creeps from our yard. LOL
 
Do you ever fix your own tires? I have done several rear tires, just did my first with fluid on my 1850, 18.4x38. Inside but no heat. I borrowed a plastic tank, bought the fill valve from Napa and a cheap drill pump from Harbor Freight and some hose I had laying around. Used tire air pressure to drain it, Put the fill valve on with the valve up and add air, turn tire down and let the air push the fluid out. Broke it down( I have a cheap bead breaker) and replaced the tube and filled it back up. Not fun, but cheaper than a service call. I'd rather not do it again, but if necessary, I probably will.
 

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