[AT] Osage vs. Firestone

[Dean VP]

Dean,

I'll add a little humor to this. Have you considered going to steel wheels on your tractors?   Is
there no way to police around the trees manually somehow prior to tractor traffic?  Or is there just
too many?   I have no experience with Slime or that kind of sealant and I don't know if that works on
tubed types. I would think it would slow down the instances of slow leaking tires.   I have this issue
with my Garden Tractor tires and get leaks due to Black Berry bush thorns.  I've cleaned out most of
the black berry bushes and at times I think I have gotten them all until one comes along and bites me
in the butt.  However, it hasn't happened often enough to cause me to resort to the slime routine.
I've become an expert at removing and re-installing the little front tires(16x7.50-8) on my Garden
tractor. Which are a real PITA. The smaller the tire the harder they are to work with. I've not had
the same problem with my rear tires on the Garden Tractor. And I have come up with no other
explanation other than they are larger/wider tires. Must have a thicker carcass or more plys or
something. The tread isn't any deeper in fact I've put new fronts on and still using the original
rears.  I would think higher # of ply/steel ply tires would be more resistant to the thorn issue. That
may be the real solution.  How many ply tires do you have on the fronts? 

On a slow speed tire I guess something like slime might work but have no experience. I would worry
about it on a high speed road vehicle tire relative to balance issues. 

Dean VP
Snohomish, WA

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-----Original Message-----
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Dean Vinson
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 5:50 PM
To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
Subject: [AT] Osage vs. Firestone

Those *@#&! osage orange trees... much as I can't help but admire their
durability and defense mechanisms, I'd just as soon have fewer of them to
deal with.   At some point in the five weeks since I put new front tires on
the JD 620, two tiny thorns managed to puncture one of them and leave me
with a slow leak.   I couldn't even see them until I took the wheel off the
tractor and studied it up close, and even then couldn't find anything that
looked like a leak until I dunked the whole thing in water.   Guess I should
be grateful for the many that apparently didn't make it through to the
innertube but still left tiny little splinters in the new tire.

It'll be many years, if ever, before I have the little osage trees beaten
back to where I won't be mowing around/over them anymore.   Anyone have any
recommendations for/against something like Slime or Gempler's Ultraseal?
Does that stuff work with tubed tires?

Thanks very much--

Dean Vinson
Saint Paris, Ohio 



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