[AT] weighted tires or not

[Carl Gogol]

My father, after replacing the landside tire on the JD 60,  would add water to it for plowing and heavy tillage.  Between tillage seasons (and especially winter) would drain it as well you can and refill with air.  Not a job that takes a lot of time, especially if you have other things you can do while filling or draining.
Carl, Manlius NY

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Subject: [AT] weighted tires or not

  Some of you guys may remember I had to replace the tires on our 454 Utility tractor a couple months ago (about 40hp).  I didn't have time to add water to them before I started using it. One of the first jobs was to spray some wet fields. Got to thinking, this thing weighs about 1,000 lbs less now---that is a good thing in wet ground. Spraying, mowing, tedding hay is about all I do with this one. Occasionally I have to move a loaded hay wagon with it (probably about 5-7,000 lbs). Wondering if I should leave the fluid out of the tires?  We've had this tractor since
72 and it has always had loaded tires. The only time I am thinking I may really need them loaded is using a scrape blade (for heavy work, not touching up a driveway), in the snow, it isn't often I have to scrape snow but it happens every few years, or moving heavy wagons--especially backing them up. Tractor is not 4WD, it does have a set of wheel weights (always has had) and we live on some rolling hills--there are places you don't go with any tractor. Whats the groups thoughts?

John Hall
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