[AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair

[charlie hill]

When I was a small boy my dad was still running his service station and had 
a tennant farmer family doing the farming.  They had an early model Allis B 
that they called Allis Mae.  She had a cut about, as I remember, 8 to 10 
inches long between two of the lugs on the tire and running at about the 
same angle as the lugs.   They had gone inside the tire and bolted another 
piece of rubber under the cut with carriage bolts with the heads inside the 
tire.  They were small carriage bolts, maybe  1/4" or slightly larger and 
they were on about 1" centers all the way around the cut and about 1" or so 
out from it.
Then they had laced the edges of the cut together with  a couple of strands 
of bailing wire the same way you would lace your shoes.  As far as I know 
that tire was still on old Allis Mae when she left the farm after my dad 
sold the station and took up the farming.

Charlie
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair


>I agree, unique "farmer" repairs are some of the most interesting, and 
>deserve to be retained!
>
> GeneW
>
> Snelling, Wayne K wrote:
>
>>I enjoy seeing those inventions of necessity and many came from the
>>depression era. I have a later one on a SM Farmall. The tire split tire
>>is bolted together with 1/4 inch bolts that keep the patch in place on
>>the inside. I think the SM will stay in that repair. It does need an lpg
>>tank as the one on it leaks but I have found an exact manufacture/date
>>replacement and will change that out. But otherwise it will stay in it's
>>"repaired" state
>>
>>Wayne Snelling
>>Assistant Professor
>>Computer Information Systems
>>South Plains College
>>Lubbock, TX 806-747-0576  ex 4692
>>
>>
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