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

[Thomas O. Mehrkam]

I have done that after running over some sharp stumps. You make a boot 
out of an old tire and bolt it inside the tractor tire. It lasts a long 
time.

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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