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Re: Liquid filled tires ????
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Posted by Indydirtfarmer on December 11, 2004 at 04:41:14 from (204.255.238.99):
In Reply to: Re: Liquid filled tires ???? posted by JMS/MN on December 11, 2004 at 00:49:36:
Farmer (YES, FULL-TIME FARMERS) plowed, disced, and cultivated for YEARS... Now a large majority are going to strip till. no till and other methods. That doesn't make all the farmers in the past WRONG....It just means times change and so do the ways we do things. I farm on the fringes of a metro area. I have to deal with trash and junk in the fields. People throw all sorts of stuff off the roads and into my crops. I get (way too many) flats on a regular basis. I had to find something that wasn't so corosive. Also, when I was filling tires with cal. chlor., I ended up with more weight than I actually needed. The Methlyl Alcohol gives me more than I need too, but on a typical 20.8x38 rear tire, using Methyl alcohol cuts that weight by some 190 lbs per wheel. On my loader tractor, I run cal. chlor and a stack of weights on each wheel. I need all the weight I can get there. Point is, We can tailor the weight, and deal with special circumstances with various kinds of fluid in the tires. John
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