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- Joined
- Mar 13, 2010
- Messages
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- Location
- on a mountaintop near Romney WV
- Tractor
- Kubota B3200, LA504 FEL, 1972 Ford 2000 w/ industrial loader
Well I'm cheating a little as hubby and I have not yet taken delivery of our B3200 HSD 4WD with LA504 FEL. We've signed on the dotted line, got financing ok'd, and have one in the crate ready to be delivered but they come with the industrial tires and we wanted the Ag tires, so when they find em, it's due to come up to our mountain woods home.
But now we're 'discussing' with our dealer, the dealer's filling our tires with the liquid ballast they now exclusively use- magnesium chloride. I've been all over this forum and thanks to you all, have gotten lots of opinions on the subject of what to use- and magnesium chloride is definately not my choice.
I'm waiting to hear back from the dealer as to whether they can add my choice- Rim Guard (beet juice) when I find it.
The Rim Guard company was closed for the weekend so I can't find out if I can buy it either near where I live (near Romney WV) or where we bought the tractor (Winchester, VA). Does anyone know a Rim Guard source near either of these locations?
Now I'm probably going to have a mini-fight with the dealer about it. If he won't or can't put in rim guard, I'll have to find it myself, take delivery on the tractor with unloaded tires and then find a tire shop in this rural area to come up to our place and fill the tires there. Our trailer is not heavy duty enough to haul it to a tire company.
It's really a shame that the dealer loads the new tires with whatever is cheapest and easiest. If they would give us a choice... I'd pay more for a better safer product.
My friend Mary bought a new 7800 last year- at the time they said all the Kubota dealers were loading the tires with Methenol and told her it was safe and not to give the idea of any problems a second thought. She later learned it was very toxic and highly flammable. Also that it's only non freezing to minus 10 to minus 15 degrees, but where she lives (and purchased the tractor) in PA, it can easily go below that in a cold winter, at her altitude. She grows an organic garden next to her water well, just as I do.
Neither of us can abide the thought of a leak (yes it DOES happen sometimes) on our lands.
My dealer said on the first discussion day that all the tires were loaded with Methanol, a big improvment over the old calcium chloride. A week later at financing, he said he was wrong, they now use nothing but magnesium chloride. He poo-pooed any problem with it, as he did with methenol, so I've had to research and decide for myself.(..something we should be doing about all things tractor anyway, right?)
Question #2 for you folks (#1 being does anyone have a source for Rim Guard near Romney West Virginia or Winchester, Virginia?) is -
Is the B3200 just the newer model of the 7800? It seems to be, based on the specs for both. The Ag tires appear to be the same size. The 7800 lists the back AG tires as 12.4-16 and front tires as 7-12.
The specs I have for the B3200 lists the 'standard' tires as the same as the AG tires for the 7800. So, their 'standard' tire must be the AG tire, (yet all the Kubota brochures and ads only ever show the tractor with the industrial tire).
Question #3 is-
How many gallons of liquid ballast would go in the B320's rear tires? (Also, if we wanted to, how many gallons would go in the front tires?)
I've checked Rim Guard's website tables for tire size/gallons needed/weight added, but neither the 7-12 nor 12.4-16 size was in their tables. (I guess I'll add that to my questions for them when I call on Monday.)
This seems like a great forum and I look forward to learning more about what we can do with, and should do for, our new tractor.
Thanks,
Rebecca
But now we're 'discussing' with our dealer, the dealer's filling our tires with the liquid ballast they now exclusively use- magnesium chloride. I've been all over this forum and thanks to you all, have gotten lots of opinions on the subject of what to use- and magnesium chloride is definately not my choice.
I'm waiting to hear back from the dealer as to whether they can add my choice- Rim Guard (beet juice) when I find it.
The Rim Guard company was closed for the weekend so I can't find out if I can buy it either near where I live (near Romney WV) or where we bought the tractor (Winchester, VA). Does anyone know a Rim Guard source near either of these locations?
Now I'm probably going to have a mini-fight with the dealer about it. If he won't or can't put in rim guard, I'll have to find it myself, take delivery on the tractor with unloaded tires and then find a tire shop in this rural area to come up to our place and fill the tires there. Our trailer is not heavy duty enough to haul it to a tire company.
It's really a shame that the dealer loads the new tires with whatever is cheapest and easiest. If they would give us a choice... I'd pay more for a better safer product.
My friend Mary bought a new 7800 last year- at the time they said all the Kubota dealers were loading the tires with Methenol and told her it was safe and not to give the idea of any problems a second thought. She later learned it was very toxic and highly flammable. Also that it's only non freezing to minus 10 to minus 15 degrees, but where she lives (and purchased the tractor) in PA, it can easily go below that in a cold winter, at her altitude. She grows an organic garden next to her water well, just as I do.
Neither of us can abide the thought of a leak (yes it DOES happen sometimes) on our lands.
My dealer said on the first discussion day that all the tires were loaded with Methanol, a big improvment over the old calcium chloride. A week later at financing, he said he was wrong, they now use nothing but magnesium chloride. He poo-pooed any problem with it, as he did with methenol, so I've had to research and decide for myself.(..something we should be doing about all things tractor anyway, right?)
Question #2 for you folks (#1 being does anyone have a source for Rim Guard near Romney West Virginia or Winchester, Virginia?) is -
Is the B3200 just the newer model of the 7800? It seems to be, based on the specs for both. The Ag tires appear to be the same size. The 7800 lists the back AG tires as 12.4-16 and front tires as 7-12.
The specs I have for the B3200 lists the 'standard' tires as the same as the AG tires for the 7800. So, their 'standard' tire must be the AG tire, (yet all the Kubota brochures and ads only ever show the tractor with the industrial tire).
Question #3 is-
How many gallons of liquid ballast would go in the B320's rear tires? (Also, if we wanted to, how many gallons would go in the front tires?)
I've checked Rim Guard's website tables for tire size/gallons needed/weight added, but neither the 7-12 nor 12.4-16 size was in their tables. (I guess I'll add that to my questions for them when I call on Monday.)
This seems like a great forum and I look forward to learning more about what we can do with, and should do for, our new tractor.
Thanks,
Rebecca