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

[John Hall]

Ooops!!!! If that last post doesn't make sense its because I replied to the 
wrong e-mail. Sorry guys.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] RE: Tubes and tires/fixes / barnyard repair


> Yep I have a boot inside one rear tire on one of my D14's now.  Ran over a 
> trailer tongue with the ball release lever standing up.  Doing a favor for 
> a friend.  Cost me $65 and ruined a very good tire.  I need to go back and 
> lace the edges but as long as it's holding air I won't worry about it.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas O. Mehrkam" <tomehrkam at houston.rr.com>
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>>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
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "kgw" <gwaugh at wowway.com>
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:44 PM
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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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