Changing Tractor Tires

Traditional Farmer · Mar 29, 2019

My tractor tire guy retired, out the business,been looking for another one.Friend of mine was telling me about a young Mennonite fellow that has a tractor tire changer at his farm that is similar to the smaller tire changers.It grabs the whole rim and tire breaks down the bead and then turns the tire off the rim said it only takes just a couple minutes and the tire guy does almost no manual labor.He said the cost is less than having a tire manually broken down,using tire irons to remove from rims etc.I'm going to take a couple tractor tires over for him
to work on.Anyone seen a set up like I described?

Leroy · Mar 29, 2019

I believe that changer is now common in shops. Will work on any style rim including the no disk rim , the rim with the big cennter hole like the ford 9N-2N and the closed center rim like some equipment had.

Dean · Mar 29, 2019

I change/repair my own (never use liquid ballast).

The secret is a slide hammer but you will also need a couple of GOOD tire irons.

Dean

Traditional Farmer · Mar 29, 2019

Well I'm at the point in life I can afford and better off to have things done like tractor tire changing rather than do it myself.

craigco · Mar 29, 2019

The scrap yard by me had one for sale for a while. Think it could to up to a 44" rim it kept the tire vertical. Think it came from the cement mine.

D beatty · Mar 29, 2019

Have a tire shop that's been in business for over 40 years and they have a mobile unit come out to site and change tires. They have all the equipment to do job and I don't have to bust my already messed up back doing it.

Dean · Mar 29, 2019

So am I, but I don't mind doing it.

That said, at 69, I do not expect to do it much longer.

Dean

stonerock · Mar 29, 2019

I change all tires myself got the machines in the shop

BarnyardEngineering · Mar 29, 2019

Never seen or heard of a machine that could do large rear tractor tires like 38's or 42's. Not saying someone couldn't make one, but pulling those big heavy rims and tires off the tractor, loading them on the truck, carting them off to the tire guy, then carting them home and putting them back on doesn't seem like a whole lot less work than just changing the tire with the rim still on the tractor.

Roger Tomfohrde · Mar 29, 2019

Fellow by lake city mn has one that will pick up a 42 inch rim. Turn it vertically and use what appears to be a large disc blade to push the tire off the rim hydraulic. Take a few minutes. He removed some 15.5 for me that basically were glued on. I only took double bevel part to him. Very reasonable. Three phase motors.

TJV · Mar 30, 2019

The local tire shop here has a couple of those machines the downfall is the rims have to be off the machine and head to the shop. One of their machines will handle those new LSW tires over 50 inches wide.

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