[AT] Osage vs. Firestone

[charlie hill]

I have  friends who own an industrial equipment rental business.
They foam fill every tire they own that operates off road.  Motor graders,
back hoes, you name it.  Of course I doubt if any of their stuff ever gets
run at high speed.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Howard Fleming
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 11:40 AM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: Re: [AT] Osage vs. Firestone

Is filling the tires with foam an option (since it has not been
mentioned)?  Not sure how the tractor would ride afterwards tho....

Howard



On 10/28/2014 08:49 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> 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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