loading tires

[Diamondpilot]

Okay folks, thanks for all the ideas and replies, they were helpfull and hopefully will help others in the future. I will try to explain what I finally ended up doing after going through 2 drill pumps{IMO not worth buying}.


I started by finding a level safe spot to jack up one side of the tractor at a time. I believe this is important if you jack from the middle as you load a tire the tractor will tip. I jacked up one rear side of the tractor and rotated the valve stem to the top 12:00 o'clock. I removed the guts of the stem and let all the air out. I then installed the bleeder valve from TSC{cost around $10.00}. I then found a 55gal plastic drum that I had laying around. I set the drum on it's side in the back of my truck with the bung caps at 6:00 and 12:00. The plastic barrles come with bung caps that are allready tapped out to recieve a 3/4inch outside faucet, all that needs to be done is to drill out the center of that tapped area. Be carefull not to mess up the threads. I placed the outside faucet into the bung cap at the 6:00 o'clock position. Then I connected a garden hose from the barrel too the tire. I then made a fitting that fit my air hose and the 12:00 o'clock bung. Fill the barrel with fluid open faucet and pump in air. I did set my air pressure at only 20PSI, didn't want things to be dangerous. I let the fluid go into the tire stopping about 6-8 times to bleed the air out of the tire. It took me longer to fill the barrel then it did to fill the tire. Total proces from putting everything together filling the barrel and then filling tire took about 1/2 an hr. I used about 48gal in each tire, OH and of course don't forget to put things back together and bring your tire pressure back up.

:thumbsup: thanks again for all the ideas and replys :thumbsup:

Great idea. Nice to see you used what you had on hand to get it done.

I have seen guys setup fuel stations like this for diesel fuel and kero in the barn. Works good.

Chris

 

[k0ua]

Nice idea on the barrel and the 20 lbs of air. My 6$ pump worked, but I agree it is a chintzy device. I like your idea better.

James K0UA

 

[radioman]

This is a good idea but didn't you need to take the tire off? Is so a tire filled with 45-50gal of fluid would be slightly on the heavy side to try and reattach.

yeah I did. I used my BH that was mounted on tractor to lift rears before removing tire/rim off trator. My tires were small enough a single man can handle it. In your case, you have a good point - larger tires is just not feasible that way unless you have equipment that can lift the tires that high loaded safely.

 

[20 20]

yeah I did. I used my BH that was mounted on tractor to lift rears before removing tire/rim off trator. My tires were small enough a single man can handle it. In your case, you have a good point - larger tires is just not feasible that way unless you have equipment that can lift the tires that high loaded safely.

:thumbsup:

 

[20 20]

Nice idea on the barrel and the 20 lbs of air. My 6$ pump worked, but I agree it is a chintzy device. I like your idea better.

James K0UA

I had a drill pump laying around(new still in case}, wouldn't work at all, so my wife picked up 2 more. I only used one and it only pumped 2-3gal before dying So I figured there had to be another way, not sure why the drill pumps were so cheap, I know I'll never buy another one. Years ago I had one and used it for all kinds of stuff, never had an issue, not sure what happened to it????

 

[20 20]

Great idea. Nice to see you used what you had on hand to get it done.

I have seen guys setup fuel stations like this for diesel fuel and kero in the barn. Works good.

Chris

I allmost went that route but I had a 275gal fuel tank and hand pump. I have changed over to an electric pump now.

 

[k0ua]

I had a drill pump laying around(new still in case}, wouldn't work at all, so my wife picked up 2 more. I only used one and it only pumped 2-3gal before dying So I figured there had to be another way, not sure why the drill pumps were so cheap, I know I'll never buy another one. Years ago I had one and used it for all kinds of stuff, never had an issue, not sure what happened to it????

Um maybe the old one was made in USA? just saying...

James K0UA

 

[20 20]

Um maybe the old one was made in USA? just saying...

James K0UA

That and I have to remember today we live in a throw away society. I'd imagine my ancestor are turning over in their graves seeing the waste of today.

 

[Marcle]

Liquid Ballast Comparison Table can be found here...

Comparing Types of Liquid Tire Ballast | OrangeTractorTalks

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

Anyone have / know where to find the chart that shows tire size and gallons of ballast the tire will hold ?

I have seen it, but can't find it now.

Thanks