[AT] Osage vs. Firestone

[Carl Gogol]

Buckthorn  is my local tire menace for the UTV.  I gave up trying to fix the 
tires conventionally when 30 or more penetrations would be found in one 
tire.  Slime slowed the process down and adding a tube seemed to help for a 
while.  The leaks were usually slow, so until the tires required air every 
day I would just add air.  that was more time effective than fixing the tire 
problem until it became a PIA.  A worker at the local tire dealer told me 
slime never worked in a tube and about half the time in a tubeless tire. 
His experience is a bit different than others have posted and I was unaware 
of a special type of slime for tubes.
After more than 6 years of fighting this reality I changed to 6-ply rated 
tires about 8 months ago and the problem seems to have disappeared for me.
Carl


-----Original Message----- 
From: Dean Vinson
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:49 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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