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

[Ed Stewart]

Hi, my dad told me about repairing tires during WW ll if a car tire 
split on the sidewall they filled the tire with all the oats they could 
squeeze in and laced the tear up with rawhide and then soaked the tire 
and wheel in water so the oats swelled up and they could get to work on 
the railroad. Ed

charlie hill wrote:
> 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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>
>> 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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