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Removing Tire Fluid

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Joel Sanderson

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Does anyone here put fluid in and out of your tires, depending on whether you want a heavy or light tractor? And if so, how are you doing it?

I planted a field of hay with the 80 last year, and even with duals it was too heavy and left tracks in the field, but that old girl needs the weight for most things. I'd like to be able to have a lighter tractor when I need one but not have it be helpless the rest of the time.

Thanks.

Joel
 
Never have taken fluid out of a tire and only took off wheel weights when was nessary to change wheel tread. And I am talking 75 years here.
 
For all of that kind of trouble I would just buy a second tractor. You are looking for an incredible amount of trouble.
 
The only option is to use iron wheel weights and put them on and off. Still too much effort. My solution is to stay out of soupy fields. Jim
 

Having actually read your post I know that you are not out there in the mud, but I can't recommend pumping liquid out and back in from season to season. Take a page from the tractor pullers play book. Get some suitcase weights and get some brackets made to hang them in the back where they will be out of the way of implements.
 
Cast wheel weights and front weight is the easiest way to do it then can easily or subtract 1500 or more pounds in just short amount of time .
 
Were the conditions just too wet during last year's planting? A smaller tractor without duals probably would have left tracks too.
 
I recall prepping fields for planting hay ground. We did all the normal tillage and planting then we made several trips with a spike toothed drag harrow. It evened the field of any rutts and packed the surface to prevent leaving tracks in the future. If done poorly it would show the following year when we made hay and left tracks. Usually two trips with a disk harrow then two, three or so as needed trips with the drag. This was all with small in terms of today tractors. But an H or M Farmall with loaded tires and two sets of weights on stock single tires were not lite either.
 
I have removed lots of it but never put it back in. Pull the valve stem and let it fly ! I would remove the rim with tire and carry it over to a fence row first though.
 
A spare set of tires and rims would allow you to just change the tires without draining the tires then pumping back in. Or a cultipacker for the field to help with the tire tracks before planting.
 
No, not too wet. Quite dry, actually. I made a clover-timothy seeding, and our Brillion seeder has only one hopper, which meant two passes across the field. The first time it looked smooth, but the second time for the timothy it left wheel tracks. I suppose it was because the ground was already too hard from the previous pass for the cultipackers on the Brillion to remove the tractor's tracks. I'm looking for a more versatile seeder to plant both simultaneously, but even then I'd like a tractor without fluid.
 
Yeah, good point. That 80 has two sets of weights besides the fluid. Not sure taking the weights off would be enough. I'll go for another tractor next time. I don't think my A's hydraulics would lift the Brilliion seeder we have though. Time for another seeder. Don't like that one much anyway.
 
(quoted from post at 14:21:41 04/02/19) No, not too wet. Quite dry, actually. I made a clover-timothy seeding, and our Brillion seeder has only one hopper, which meant two passes across the field. The first time it looked smooth, but the second time for the timothy it left wheel tracks. I suppose it was because the ground was already too hard from the previous pass for the cultipackers on the Brillion to remove the tractor's tracks. I'm looking for a more versatile seeder to plant both simultaneously, but even then I'd like a tractor without fluid.
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Joel, a rule of thumb is that a properly worked up seed bed will depress 1.5 inches when you drive over it with your pick-up truck. obviously multiple passes will pack it, but even though a Brillion is very heavy the weight is distributed more than a pick-up truck.
 
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