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

[John Hall]

My uncle once told me of lacing tires with rawhide or rope. I bought an ID-9 
IH that was used as a powerplant on a sawmill. One of the rear tires had 
been laced together with nylon rope. I guess the owners figured since they 
weren't going to drive it there was no need of buying a tire.

John Hall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair


> 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
>