[AT] The old tractor curse... Tires and batteries

[Mark Johnson]

This used to be very common...even as recently as the past 20 years...my 
dad managed to skewer a nearly-new, heavyweight 38" tire on an Allis 
8030 with a deer antler in the sidewall, and had such a repair done. As 
far as I know, the neighbor who bought the tractor is still running on 
that tire. The service call wasn't cheap but it beat the heck out of 
$500 for a new tire plus labor to remove & replace liquid ballast!

Fun Note: In their last years on the farm, my folks sold off the cattle 
and put part of the farm in trees while cropping the rest...within a 
couple of years after the herd was gone, it was "replaced" by a herd of 
20+ whitetail deer who used to browse in the cornfield within sight of 
their front porch. They seemed to thrive on corn stubble.

Mark J


On 6/22/2020 6:08 PM, ustonThomas Mehrkam wrote:
> This group has changed through out the years.  Now talking about 
> Antique tractor POX! :-}
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> We purchased a number of damaged tires throughout the years. We had a 
> place in the Houston Area what would vulcanize the tires.  I had a 
> three inch diameter hole in a large rear tire on a farmall H.
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> This is an old tire that was given to me from a farmer friend. The 
> threads were worn so he retired the tire.  He was a commercial farmer 
> and farmed about 2000 acres.
>
> We ran it five or six years. I ran over a yaupon stump and knocked a 
> large hole in the middle of the tread. They replace the rubber when 
> done you could not tell that tire was ever damaged. Vulcanized it. 
> They repaired a lot of tires that way.
>
> That tire still holds air 30 years later.
>
> http://www.dhtire.com/OTR/Tire-Vulcanizing
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> On Monday, June 22, 2020, 4:10:56 PM CDT, Mogrits <mogrits at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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> Farmer,
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> Would aluminum "screen wire" work for your reinforcement? It's pretty 
> flexible.
>
> Warren
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 8:08 PM Indiana Robinson 
> <robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Seems I'm always out of both and money too.
>     Working on a few tires at the moment for a garden trailer and a
>     garden tractor. I only "work" a couple of my tractors these days
>     and those not very hard. Still, they operate better with air in
>     the tires.  :-)
>     I keep buying cheap tires at auctions but I have avoided auctions
>     this year and most regular auctions have been canceled. Many of
>     those tires have a bad spot or two but I can deal with those
>     pretty well. The problem is that so many of these old tires are
>     just kind of weak all over. Tire liners can extend them for
>     puttering but those liners are pretty pricey and prone to shifting
>     and tube chaffing.
>     I keep looking for answers in a permanently flexible near super
>     adhesive (not something hard that can break) and some kind of high
>     strength woven material that is thin but strong. Very strong. I
>     basically have the adhesive, It is the most heavily used adhesive
>     in the shoe repair industry around the world. I used it daily for
>     over 20 years. Extremely flexible, extremely strong. I found it
>     ultra useful in tire repairing since it is far superior to
>     anything that was available to me through tire repair supply
>     vendors. It bonds well to about anything except plastics. Fully
>     water proof.
>     That material is commonly referred to in the trades as "All
>     Purpose Cement (cement, never "glue"). I used to always buy it by
>     the gallon. Note too that proper preparation of all surfaces is
>     paramount including priming of dry surfaces.
>     https://angelusdirect.com/products/all-purpose-shoe-cement
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>     As a support material I have wondered about several different
>     ones. The adhesive above works pretty well on woven materials
>     including synthetics as long as  it is a fairly fine weave. Not
>     something like chicken wire.  :-)
>     Coarse canvas might be OK but maybe too weak unless laminated
>     several ply's deep. I have considered something more like Kevlar
>     or woven carbon fiber (and I have noted that their cost has come
>     down some) but I don't know much about them. Kind of a big hole in
>     my knowledge base...
>
>     On a side note on tire repair one of the required items in in my
>     tool kit for tires is a very large container of very cheap talcum
>     powder... You don't want your inner tube to be sticking to your
>     tire repairs.  :-)
>     Side, side note: As a teen (1950's) I showed a lot of pure-bred
>     Yorkshire hogs (white for those not familiar) and used about a ton
>     of cheap Apple Blossom talcum powder on them. They smelled pretty
>     nice for pigs.  :-)
>     After raising all of those Yorkshire hogs I found it interesting
>     when I got deeply into genealogy later to find that while my early
>     paternal ancestors were Norse Vikings who migrated to the Scottish
>     Highlands as Clan Gunn, very many of my paternal ancestors came
>     here in the 1600's from Yorkshire in Northern England.
>
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>
>     Francis Robinson
>     aka "farmer"
>     Central Indiana USA
>     robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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