deputyrpa
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It's my wife's fault! Well....she kept bugging me to grade an area of the upper horse pasture through which the US F&WS and I created 5000 feet of new stream to move the channel back to where it used to be any moons ago. The farmers turned it into a roadside ditch which eliminated the trout population and after 80 or so years, also started sinking the farmhouse (which I sold back to the former owner). We dug a new E-type channel, and the spoil was sidecast and spread. As there is no bridge built yet (job #276), the horses were jumping over it and landing on some piles of dirt. My wife thinks they'll get injured or something.....yeah....perhaps I should make her watch them kick the snot out of each other a few more times - just for perspective. Anyway, I graded the area quickly before brunch yesterday. I came home from work today, and was ready to crank it up and move some round bales to storage - and the rear tire is flat. A small piece of barbed wire went thru the sidewall! Pic is attached. Forthunately, I unknowingly parked it with the hole at 12 o'clock, and It doesn't appear I lost much Rimguard. BTW - that stuff tastes pretty good.....
The tires are loaded, and I assume that they are tubeless....correct? If so, I also assume a plug will work, rather than a $200 trip to the industrial tire center....yes? I'm not a fan of sidewall plugs, but I am lesser so of giving up a wad of cash. One worry is that I make repeated (20+ round trips) from my farm to my neighbors farm transporting round bales, on the road at full speed. I'd hate to have a sudden air loss. Comments are always appreciated. Thanks.
The tires are loaded, and I assume that they are tubeless....correct? If so, I also assume a plug will work, rather than a $200 trip to the industrial tire center....yes? I'm not a fan of sidewall plugs, but I am lesser so of giving up a wad of cash. One worry is that I make repeated (20+ round trips) from my farm to my neighbors farm transporting round bales, on the road at full speed. I'd hate to have a sudden air loss. Comments are always appreciated. Thanks.