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Tractor tire repair on the farm

Last I knew it was costing me $200 for them to come out 10 miles to replace a tube and pump fluid. Didn't take too long for me to realize how it was cheaper and faster to do my own. I fact I just replaced this rim on my SM.


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Last time it was about $500 for both rears on an IH 1086 30 miles from their shop. It was worth it to me because I have not the practiced skills, equipment and too old to do it myself.
 
Cost me $600 to have one rim replaced(28"), new inner tube, & filled with liquid about 3yrs ago.
 
I got it at auction. But it was St Johns Mi Dec2019. I've been watching this wheel and caught it just before it was ready to blow. It was still half full of fluid I haven't put back in yet.

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And summer 2019 with the loader I use mostly to feed round bales.


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Just the cost of whatever needs to be replaced or repaired. I do all my own labor & fluid changes. Always have, but now have most of the necessary equipment acquired. Yes, I'm a cheap @*&%$
 
Is that it John Deere loader? It looks like the one my neighbor had on a JD 50 except his was a trip bucket.
 
We take the tire and rim into a tire shop. No fluid, remove tire cost $20, to remount tire and tube $20. Can't beat the price but it might take a couple days to get them back.
 
I was quoted $500 from one outfit and $600 from another to come out, remove the old tires, and install new tires I have on hand, on a pair of 20.8x38s. That included them supplying new Firestone tubes. If they had to pump calcium, it was extra, but I think the tires on this tractor are dry.
 
I don't remember the exact dollar amount ? It was not too bad. But what I do remember when calling around for estimates I was not told about the service call charge that would be on top of what he quoted. So be real specific when asking about a price as to what all it includes !
 
Around a month ago, $200 got me from the tire shop 14 miles away: on farm call to replace damaged inner tube in 15.5 x 38 tire. Included new tube and removing perhaps 50 gal of calcium which I did NOT replace in the new tube (going to rim gard or plain old wheel weights in the future).
 
50 dollar 'service call' plus mileage over 20 miles;40 dollar flat repair,10 dollar calcium pump(both ways). You usually get hung with buying a new tube if it's more than a 'pin hole'.A simple 'on farm' flat repair is usally less 200.00,less 'parts'.
 
I like to do my own tire changing. It is good exercise and sometimes a good challenge. I have all of the tools except a pump. Don't have many with fluid anyway. I worked at a dealership that sold a lot of Goodyears back in the 70's. Sometimes the wife gets involved. That's when you know you have a good one!!
 
I used to do all my tire repairs,except for the 'wet' ones. Now that I'm older,and have back issues I call the tire shop for the bigger rears.
 
I was raised on a JD620 and in my teens used a 720. The 620 still has a JD45 on it. I got another for my M and SM added the cyl to tilt the bale spear. It's done from manure work to raising trusses to lifting JD404 engine for mt 4430
 
(quoted from post at 03:04:37 01/14/21) What are you paying for an on farm service call ?
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Haven't paid for one for 30+ years but, last time I checked about 2 years ago it was $150 plus on site time and materials.
 
For all y'all that do your own, that's great. It's not something that just anyone can do, though.

I've done it many times and will probably do it again many more times in the future, but from personal experience these large rear tractor tires are HEAVY and usually put up a FIGHT.
 
I do pretty good with tubeless tires the smaller ones but have
never had any luck with a tube type
 
I use to take them in to the shop but it’s hard to load a calcium filled tire when the loader tractor is the one with the flat
 
It takes practice and the knowledge of how to do it. But then on the other hand I have done tire repair for a living so I learned. I still do my own tractor tires but have also got my shop set up to work in them. I have an air powdered bead breaker tool plus the correct tire spoons etc.
 
The fight thing it why I have my shop set up with chain hoists. Make it easy to work on them when the hoist does the lifting
 
I’ve been thinking of buying a set of spoons just for the odd tire I can fix or want to try and fix . I am also considering putting the valve stem at the bottom and letting all the liquid rust run out on the ground and get as much out of the tires As I can so I don’t have that to contend with anymore but I do like the extra weight until I can get some cast weights bought . You guys that know how to do tires are flat out handy I love to watch you do em it’s amazing how easy you make it look
 
If I need weight and use fluid I use wiper fluid and then reuse it and use a drill pump to remove it and put it back in. Having the correct spoons goes a long way in not harming a tube by the way
 
(quoted from post at 18:51:22 01/14/21) If I need weight and use fluid I use wiper fluid and then reuse it and use a drill pump to remove it and put it back in. Having the correct spoons goes a long way in not harming a tube by the way
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I do the same with the wiper fluid; Amen to having proper spoons, can't imagine trying to change one without them.
 
By the way duct tape will not seal a hole in an inner tube even if your just using it as a butt cushion
 
One tire guy put duct tape around the tube to keep the tire from rubbing the tube and worked for awhile
 
What works better is taking an old tube and cutting it so the new tube sits inside of it and thorns etc. take a lot longer to poke a hole in the new tube
 
The last time we had a farm call for a tire, we ended up with a new 15.5/38 tube and tire.. it took em the better part of half a day, they pumped fluid both ways and had to add some.. the total bill came in just over a grand.. needless to say we dont call for farm service unless right up against it...
 
I’m going to get rid of fluid as soon as possible . The local hold em n screw em will do tractor tires for 45$ without fluid this repair alone would have paid for a set of weights
 

Gotta ask. What kind of spoons are you using? Probably not the ones used for car tires.

I can guess you get them off starting at the top with the spoons. What I can't see is how you get the leverage to put them back on when vertical. It would be tough laying flat on the ground.
 
My cousin has big tire spoons that are Over 3 feet long He
does a few tires but I can’t talk him into doing mine because
he doesn’t have any time and he can’t deal With fluid either .
 
The best deal I could find was 200$ including new tube and pumping the fluid so I didn’t feel to bad about that . Funny how one guy will drive near 100 miles round trip and be 200$ cheaper than a guy that had to drive 20 miles round trip
 

Been a few years since I was having so many flats due to a certain brands tires cracking in the sidewalls, but at that time it was $250 to boot the sidewall, replace the tube and pump fluid on a 18.4R30
$60 was pumping fluid
 
Back before I got the liquid rust damage stopped on my 4020 i
think I spent about a thousand dollars on tire repair finally gas
to replace one rim . At that time it was 60$ a repair if I loaded
the tire and rim and took it to the store
 

Looked at a few utube videos of tire changes. Once you get the bead broken, they made it look like a piece of cake to change them. Seems like the bigger the tire, the easier they go on and off the rim. I know I've had a heck of a time with little 8" mower tires.
 
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