[AT] Cutting Tractor Tires

Sat Jun 10 16:06:04 PDT 2006

A guy I work with used to do rubber lining work in big tanks, etc.
He is the one that told me about wetting rubber to cut it.  Of course the 
rubber they cut doesn't have steel in it but they cut it with a knife that 
looks like a butcher knife.   Without the water the knife will drag so bad a 
man can't pull it.  Pour on a little water and it will  zip right through 
the rubber.

In the case of tires, you still have to deal with the cord and maybe some 
steel so the power saws are needed but the water (or some other fluid) 
should speed things up a bit.  I've tried water while cutting heavy conveyor 
belts and it helps with that.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
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Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Cutting Tractor Tires

>I bought one of those kits to make tire swings and other stuff, and they 
>included sabre saw blades for cutting the tires..  (special blades)  It 
>loooks like they just took a hammer to the blades and hammered the set out 
>of the blades..  They work.  We cut tires for feeders.  If you get a cut 
>started, then pull out the cutting as you saw and it works a lot faster. 
>Wemade feeders out of a pair of 23.1-34's   Took almost a day to cut both 
>of them...
>
> cecil in OKla
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>> 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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>>> 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 
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