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

[charlie hill]

John,  Marcell Ledbetter would be PROUD of you.  grins

Charlie
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From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:10 PM
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> Thanks---you guys sure are prompt!!!!
>
> The reason I bought this thing was we have over 40 chainsaws in our 
> collection and I thought this would be a good addition.
>
> John
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> From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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>> 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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