[AT] Tractor tire repair & what is going to happen next.

[Thomas O Mehrkam]

Hey we did that a time or to.  We were not poor but were real frugal. 
Made a boot and bolted it in with carriage bots.  Worked quite well.

We cleared 25 acres with a international H, log chain and an axe.  The 
problem was the axe.  The stumps could be hell on tires until we sawed 
them off even with the ground.

We had a gas saw with t 30" circular blade.  It had two wheels the saw 
could be turned 90 degrees so the blade was parallel with the ground. 
Worked well when shorting stumps.

On 1/4/2015 10:17 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Cecil,   When I was a young boy in the early 50's the tenant farmers
> that farmed our place while my dad ran a service station were poor and
> we weren't much better off.  They managed to put a split about 6" long in
> the face of a rear tractor tire in between the treads and continuing around
> into the sidewall.  The fixed it by taking a piece of a car tire sidewall
> and
> bolting it inside the tire, covering the split, using small carriage bolts.
> The drilled a series of holes through the tire and the patch all along the
> edge of the split
> and put the carriage bolts in from the inside with the nuts outside.  Then
> they
> put a boot inside to cover the patch.  It was ugly but it worked well.
>
> With that said, if you can find a company that does rubber lining of tanks
> or rail cars or a
> rail car repair shop or a shop that "lags" big conveyor pulleys, they will
> have some rubber
> that will cold vulcanize in place with a solvent that they have.  To be
> economical they have
> to buy it in large quantities but they probably sell or even give you what
> you need to do
> a patch that size and tell you how to do it.  I know you are in the country
> but not too far
> from the city.
>
> Good luck with it.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve W.
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:16 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor tire repair & what is going to happen next.
>
> Cecil R Bearden wrote:
>> I am in need of some tread gum rubber to vulcanize a hole I created in
>> my Belarus rear tire.  I was feeding my cows 2 days ago and We had to
>> drag the tractor to start it due to the 20 deg weather.  I set  a bale
>> near the fence to haul to a customer, and my wife was standing in the
>> gate to keep the sheep from running out.  I backed up to turn to go to
>> the hay stack, and felt that I was trying to back over something.  Sure
>> enough, it was the loader we had removed from my New Holland tractor so
>> I could take the tractor to be repaired.  The bale forks were on the
>> loader, and one punctured the rear tire on the inside in the crown area
>> next to a lug.  The tires have good tread and minimal weather cracks.
>> The only tire repair shop in town wants $250 to repair the 1 inch long
>> tear in the tire. I have searched for the last 2 days for tie boots, and
>> no one want so sell less than 5 of them, so I finally ordered one from
>> Gempler's.  However, the method of repair is to cut out the torn area
>> with a hole saw to prevent it from tearing and then fill with gum rubber
>> and vulcanize, then vulcanize a patch over it.    My gum rubber is over
>> 30 years old, and not too much good.  I have all the needed vulcanizing
>> equipment though...
>>
>> We had to pull the other Belarus to start it and then mount the bale
>> spike and the forks from the other one.  All in 25 deg weather with wind
>> gusting to 30mph.
>>
>> Yesterday afternoon, we went to get feed with the bulk bin on wheels.
>> It holds a ton of feed.  It is a gravity type box that empties from the
>> back.  I unlatched the trailer coupler and stepped back to wind on the
>> hitch jack.  The hitch started up and the bid did a somersault over
>> backwards!!!  It lost about 75 lbs of feed out of the top when it
>> buckled...We got some barrels and a pallet and spent the next 2 hours
>> shoveling it into the barrels and turning the bin over.......
>>
>> I have to go feed again.........  Wish me luck!!
>>
>> Cecil in oKla
>>
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