foam filled tires? is it possible to DIY??

[brain55]

Mount the tires tubeless and put in some tire sealer. Foam will be hard on front end

I ran a fleet of tractors with foam filled front tires, I never noticed any increase in front-end or tractor wear over time.

Brian

 

[BHD]

Try some aircraft tires, many many plys and real rubber. have used on tractor fronts and on pasture pick up for many years and only flat was a valve stem rotting off, (not for high speed) to heavy to dissipate the heat for many miles,

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[Midniteoyl]

LD1 have you ever tried any of these? I saw this at the Farm show yesterday. It looks about like the Berrymans I used to use a lot of when I had a property with thorns on it.

Multi-Seal Tire Sealant and Berend Turf & Tractor - YouTube

That looks like good stuff... I would like to see it after its been in a few years.

 

[ultrarunner]

The place I took mine said they have different density depending on weight... since my BX is light, I did not get the rock hard foam.

I would do it again because too many plans were ruined because of flats before foam...

Also much better digging with the hoe and lower center of gravity on hills.

They sell it by the pound so large tires will get pricey quick.

 

[LD1]

Try some aircraft tires, many many plys and real rubber. have used on tractor fronts and on pasture pick up for many years and only flat was a valve stem rotting off, (not for high speed) to heavy to dissipate the heat for many miles,

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Do they make an aircraft tire with R1 tread??

That looks like good stuff... I would like to see it after its been in a few years.

Looks like slime to me. I too wonder how it will be in a year or two? and it claims to seal 95% of leaks, what about that other 5%?? Once you have stuff like that in your tire, IF it dont work, it is almost impossible to ever get a patch or plug to stick, so your srewed.

The place I took mine said they have different density depending on weight... since my BX is light, I did not get the rock hard foam.

Do you recall what it costed for the BX?? The 7x16 front tires on my L3400 are hardly big.

I just wish there was a DIY kit. Kinda like buying cans of expanding foam, but made for tires??

 

[ultrarunner]

I think it was around $125 ea for the rear tires...

The process was really simple.

Tire laying flat on it's side, a vent hole is drilled into the casing and the foam mix is injected through the tire air stem until it comes out through the 1/4" vent hole.

The tire is also "Hot Branded" foam filled

Only other thing is to make sure the foam is uniform... the tire should remain on it's side for 24 hours before mounting...

Shop is in Stockton California the center of Northern CA farming.

Some of the bigger tires were over a $1000 ea.

They also had a lot of industrial tires waiting to be foamed.

I believe the key is the mixing valve for the components and heat was involved...

 

[94BULLITT]

LD1 have you ever tried any of these? I saw this at the Farm show yesterday. It looks about like the Berrymans I used to use a lot of when I had a property with thorns on it.

Multi-Seal Tire Sealant and Berend Turf & Tractor - YouTube

I was telling my Dad about that stuff. He said he saw a guy run something in a back hoe tire and it was shooting fluid out so he ran it up and back and it stopped the leak. I guess it had a similar product in it.

 

[k0ua]

I was telling my Dad about that stuff. He said he saw a guy run something in a back hoe tire and it was shooting fluid out so he ran it up and back and it stopped the leak. I guess it had a similar product in it.

I used to run Berrymans which is similar when I had a place with lots of rose and blackberry thorns. I was mowing it with a lawn tractor, and you know how thin some of those tires are.. I looked at one of the tires carefully in the sun one day, and it had hundreds of holes in it. But it was still holding air thanks to the Berrymans.

I put some in the front tires of my old Long Tractor 3 rib tires after getting several flats with the locust thorns. It worked well there too, unless they were more like gashes. If the hole gets too big it will seal, then leak, then seal as you drive along. The end result is if the hole is too big, it doesn't work. But anything up to about 1/4 of an inch it works well.

I don't know if this Multi Seal is any better than the Berrymans I used or not, but when I looked at it in a jar, it looked about the same only a darker color. I did look at at a section of tire that was cut out, and had several holes in it, and I could see the Dacron fibers in the holes, so I think it is about the same stuff.

James K0UA

 

[94BULLITT]

I used to run Berrymans which is similar when I had a place with lots of rose and blackberry thorns. I was mowing it with a lawn tractor, and you know how thin some of those tires are.. I looked at one of the tires carefully in the sun one day, and it had hundreds of holes in it. But it was still holding air thanks to the Berrymans.

I put some in the front tires of my old Long Tractor 3 rib tires after getting several flats with the locust thorns. It worked well there too, unless they were more like gashes. If the hole gets too big it will seal, then leak, then seal as you drive along. The end result is if the hole is too big, it doesn't work. But anything up to about 1/4 of an inch it works well.

I don't know if this Multi Seal is any better than the Berrymans I used or not, but when I looked at it in a jar, it looked about the same only a darker color. I did look at at a section of tire that was cut out, and had several holes in it, and I could see the Dacron fibers in the holes, so I think it is about the same stuff.

James K0UA

It looks like the Berryman Seal-R cannot be used with fluid in the tires. Also I can't find how much it takes to do a tire with it.

 

[powerstroke444e]

I have ran foam in there front tires on tractors since the early 90's and have not had a front end problem. On my B26 I foamed all the way around. On the M5400 I wish we would have we only did the fronts and it seems like we have had several flats on the rear at the worse possible times.