[AT] Cutting Tractor Tires

Sat Jun 10 13:24:47 PDT 2006

I have cut a lot of tires. I use a electric circular saw with a course 
tooth carbide tipped blade and some water mixed with liquid dish washing 
soap. Another idea you may try is to get ahold of a tire recapping place 
like I did and they gave a bunch of left over artic tread capping 
material that was used to cap the old bias tires that are not used 
anymore since the advent of radials. I have a hitnmiss tractor with a 
Sears converison unit that made a model A ford into a tractor of sorts. 
The local capping place gave me the material just for telling people at 
the local shows they gave it to me....The tractor weighs 3500 lbs with 
the 1390 lb Hercules hitnmiss engine on it and has had no problems 
climbing up steep ramps onto the trailer. Ed

Dave Cesan wrote:
> Has anyone on this great list had experience cutting tractor tires? I have an IH 10-20 and I've removed the steel lugs from the rear as they tear up the trailer during transport and some shows wont let you ride around with steel lugs. I want to trim the side walls off of some old rubber tractor tires and carriage bolt them to the steel rims. I remember cutting an old tractor tire with a sawzall to get it off the rim and that sawzall shook me to hell and back. Is there an easier way to slice a tire? Thanks for your help!
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> cutting tractor tires? I have an IH 10-20 and I've removed the steel lugs from 
> the rear as they tear up the trailer during transport and some shows wont let 
> you ride around with steel lugs. I want to trim the side walls off of some old 
> rubber tractor tires and carriage bolt them to the steel rims. I remember 
> cutting an old tractor tire with a sawzall to get it off the rim and that 
> sawzall shook me to hell and back. Is there an easier way to slice a tire? 
> Thanks for your help!</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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