New Mower Wheels

rusty6 · Jul 8, 2021

The wheels on my Farm King rotary mower have been in rough shape for years but the one tire finally started falling to pieces on the last day I used it last fall. Got a pair of new stub axles, wheels and tires from Princess Auto. I had to fabricate some framework to hang them on. Just some leftover scrap iron like most of my work but it seems to have worked out ok. I had it out for some cutting with the 730 Case recently and didn't break it. Rides nice and smooth on the new tires. Old ones were solid rubber with plastic pipe bearings.

New mower wheels

Bruce from Can. · Jul 8, 2021

That hitch is very interesting, near all rotary mowers I have seen are pth. I bet those new tires are tubeless, so you will need to keep a eye on the air pressure every time you take it out. I hate tubeless tires on farm equipment

rusty6 · Jul 8, 2021

(quoted from post at 17:47:14 07/08/21) That hitch is very interesting, near all rotary mowers I have seen are pth. I bet those new tires are tubeless, so you will need to keep a eye on the air pressure every time you take it out. I hate tubeless tires on farm equipment

At the time I bought this mower in 93 the only tractor with three point hitch was the Cockshutt 40 and I didn't think it was big enough for the kind of work I wanted to do. So trailer type mower it was. Takes a lot more room to turn around than a three point unit but otherwise I like it.

SVcummins · Jul 8, 2021

Thats a nice little mower. I really like the self leveling hitch

Russ from MN · Jul 8, 2021

I need some new wheels for our Woods belly mower, but they have to be solid. If your tires are tubeless, put some SLIME in them, you won't have any more trouble.

rusty6 · Jul 8, 2021

(quoted from post at 20:29:10 07/08/21) I need some new wheels for our Woods belly mower, but they have to be solid. If your tires are tubeless, put some SLIME in them, you won't have any more trouble.

Funny thing about slime, I've probably had as many people warn against using it as I have recommendations to use it. The guys that install tires for me swear at it, not by it. So far I have not tried it.

quefan · Jul 9, 2021

Cutter does a nice job.
Typical farm boy run her up to road gear quick ( me too lol ) love the sound.

Determined · Jul 9, 2021

Like others have said those smaller tubeless tires are a great source for grief.

It seemed like every time I would go to use my mower 3 out of 4 of them would be flat.

I would shred one off every now and again because I didn't notice it going flat while mowing, just unnecessary grief.

Each time I would wreck one and replace it I installed a tube at the same time, this improved things greatly.

Early this spring I stopped at a garage sale and found a gold mine.

6 tires the right size for my mower all in good shape with tubes and rims and all holding air they wanted $5 for the whole pile which I happily paid.

Figured I got this stupid mower beat now.

Went and hooked up the mower this spring and you guessed it all 4 tires were full of air and ready to go mowing.

3 mowing's so far this year and not one has needed air.

It's fine by me if the spares sit in the shed for the next 20 years.

I think the ones on the mower are scared to go flat now, like they know they will be promptly replaced.

rusty6 · Jul 9, 2021

I have not had a problem with tubeless yet but will watch for it. The ideal tire would be those solid rubber ones like I see on the big ditch mowers. No flats there.

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