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Don-Wi

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It seems that in the last few weeks we've just been having a bad streak with tires. I cut hay the other day and came home, intending to unhook the machine the next day. I got to the farm the naxt day, and a tire on the haybine was flat. Yesterday I took the farmm truck to bring in our aluminum cans, and I found a screw in the front drivers side tire when I was at a stop. I got home and noticed the lawn tractir had a flat rear tire. That's 3 in just the last week alone.

It used to be a reaosnable price to fix, but las time dad brought both front tires for our loader tractor in (7.50-15's) and it was $23 a peice!!!

We want to find an old tire changer, but with no shop to put it in, we're kinda screwed. A neighbor guy has a changer and he does them a little cheaper, but then we have to supply the tube which we don't always have or we can't get them any cheaper.

Sometimes a guy just can't win. Makes me wonder how many flats we'll get baling hay.... Good thing we have spares for the 4 or 5 different bolt patterns our wagons have...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I think ours went from engine to tires. I'm currently working on pulling the engine out of our 1855 because of a knock. Got the manifolds off it and a bunch of other stuff stripped off today. If the hay isn't ready to bale or be raked tomorrow I should be able to get the rest of it ready to go.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I feel your pain.
Only put a nail through the 1640's front tire, tore the sidewall out of the van's tire on a kids toy. And had a run away with a Detroit Diesel which now requires a governor. All in a span of 48hrs.
 

Wife and I have been married 41 years. In the last 12 months or so she has had more flats than all the rest of that time. Picked up piece of steel that ruined tire one rainy night,some episodes with bad Chinese valve stems,nail in tire that poked TWO holes in it.
I had flat on one of the used car tires on the rake, then that tire blew the tread off sitting in the yard.

KEH
 
I went thru a steak of that this spring. Count up the number of tires you have on all of your equipment--it'll surprise you. No wonder we have a few flats now and then.
Paul
 
We went through a stretch like that when I was in high school - only it lasted 3 or 4 years. The county bought all the gravel from an abandoned rail line and spread it on the roads. For years we had three or four flats a week on everything from cars to combines. We got pretty good at patching flats and accumulated quite a few spares (all the pickups had two spares).
 
Shucks around here ,, If I dont change out 3 flats a week ,, I would think I was in HEAVEN , OR BEEN LAID UP TO WHERE i COULDNT GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY ,, sAME HOLDS TRUE FOR THE NEED OF A BATTERY cHARGER ,,
 
I just went through that last weekend. Two flats on the tractor in two days. I went down to the local tractor yard and he let me use his tier changer to fixit up. The next day we got another one. I just brought it home and got a new tube. I have been mowing the same place for five years and never had a problem. I would like to find something to put in the tubes to help prevent flats.

Bill
 
We were always fixing flats or airing up tires when I was young. Some if not most of these problems were related to using old truck/car tires whenever possible to save money. This inconvience convinced me to only buy new tires if one needs replaced, and if the tires on purchased machinery don't look very good/great they are immediately "re-shod" before placing the machine in service. Does cost a little more money, but saves on aggravation and lowers the blood pressure.
 
Well, of the tires that went flat, they're all being used for their intended purpose. The truck tire was on the truck, the haybine has implement tires on it, and the lawn mower has the turf tread.

The loader that had both fronts go flat a month or so ago, has 3 rib tractor tires on it. We only use the car/truck tires on our hay wagons and a few other implements like our rakes and tillage equipment (have a set of 14" trailer tires on one because that was the cheapest/easiest way to go).

Changed out a really old (25 years old +) car tire on a hay wagon this spring that the tread separated but didn't go flat yet, and another 20+ year old car tire on our disk that blew up while sitting in the sun.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Appears it was just streak of bad luck with tires that can't hardly be avoided, unless you remain inside and don't run/use anything.
 
Yup. Every once in a while it happens. ONe year we had a flat on just about every hay wagon, but of course most of them were the newer tires, not the 20 year old scabs that they have on them. We have a few that we're watching, but they keep going round & round.

I think every hay wagon we have(4 in use), has a different bolt pattern on it. 3 different 5 bolt patterns, and an odd ball 6 bolt (6 on 6 1/2 I think) with a solid center rim. We also borrow 2 wagons once in a while, but they're both 6 on 6" pattern.

I have another standard 6 bolt electric running gear I'm fixing up, not sure what it's gonna go under yet.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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