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

[charlie hill]

My uncle used to tell me about repairing his old semi-pneumatic bicycle tire 
by filling it with soy beans and warm water and tying a rag over the hole. 
He was born in 1903 and was a boy at the time.
I don't know when they stopped using semi-pneumatic tires on bikes.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Stewart" <edstewart1 at verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: [AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair


> 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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