Fluid or Weights???

[ovrszd]

I meant to address the "weights" issue and see Larry beat me to it. Very expensive weight when compared to fluid. Unless you can get lucky and find some used weights cheap that you can modify to fit your wheels.

A guy gave me these John Deere weights and I built brackets to mount them.

 

[mx1alex]

My tires are tubeless.

Before I even got the new tractor home I stopped at a tire shop to have a nail removed from one of the rear tires. I asked how much it would be to have fluid put in. He said he's have to put a tube in to do that and it would cost around $250/tire. Not sure which liquid he uses.

So you can do liquid with tubeless tires?

 

[ovrszd]

Yes, you can fluid tubeless tires. Only reason to add a tube would be if using a corrosive material. And my friend,,,, never let anyone pump your tires full of corrosive material....

 

[The Suburban Farmer]

So you can do liquid with tubeless tires?

Absolutely! I think that's probably the case with 95% of the compact tractors out there -- almost all of them are sold tubeless, and a hefty percentage of all of them run fluid-filled tires.

If you're tubeless, just make sure to use something that wont cause corrosion of the rims -- windshield wiper fluid, beet juice, RimGuard, etc. are perfectly fine in tubeless tires. Things like calcium or magnesium chloride may be more corrosive. Maybe your tire guy was thinking of calcium chloride when he said you would need tubes?

 

[ovrszd]

Additionally, buy yourself a good "plug" kit. Pull your own nails and plug the hole. Buy Beer with the savings.

 

[mx1alex]

Thank you fellas for the input! Very much appreciated. Don't know if I'm comfortable filling my own but it's definitely something I'll research further.

So say I do spring a leak. Can I just put the hole at the top and plug it without taking the tire off? I don't think I'd have a way to move 500 lb wheel if I had to take it off and haul it somewhere.

 

[mx1alex]

Additionally, buy yourself a good "plug" kit. Pull your own nails and plug the hole. Buy Beer with the savings.

Cheers to that!!!!

 

[ovrszd]

Yeah, no reason to remove the tire to plug. You are MORE than capable of filling your own tires. Do some research on buying WW fluid and that widget I talked about. Then go to a local tire store and price non-corrosive fluid with them installing it. I think you'll feel more capable after you see how much money you'll save.

 

[TripleR]

Filling tires is pretty easy as Richard says, my brother replaced fluid in one of the tires on our M8540 a last summer and saved us quite a bit on a service call.

 

[ovrszd]

Oh, one more thing to mention. Beet Juice or RimGuard is heavier than WW fluid or water. There is something to be said for that if you are trying to gain the maximum amount of weight. I'm gonna say something like 1.5-2 lbs p/gallon. In your case I think your tires will hold enough gallons of material to get the benefit you are after by using the cheapest material which would be WW fluid. And you will pay for that additional weight because of having to pay to get it installed.