L2501 - Liquid Ballast Options

[flingwing1969]

Your dog needs to get out more.

Licking the container is a far stretch from drinking enough to kill her.

She still needs to get out more.

The container was a open drain pan containing the entire contents of the radiator.

 

[jaydee325]

Since the original question was about the various options, what is wrong with Rim Guard (beat juice)? At least according to their sales literature, does not seem that much more expensive than some of the other options discussed here.

Disclamer, I have Rim Guard. Was part of the deal on my new tractor and therefore was not a significant cost in the overall deal.

Buy the way, if you are wondering how much fluid it is going to take to fill your size tires, the Rim Guard website has a huge table of volumes for tire sizes. It is a downloadable PDF.

 

[flingwing1969]

If you've never had a mouthful of antifreeze you haven't mechanic'd.

Sweet, isn't it.

 

[ovrszd]

Sweet, isn't it.

And you instantly spit it out.

 

[Fallon]

You may want to consider a rear weight box instead;unless you are using a rear blade for snow removal.May-be a combination weight box and rear blade.

Based on my experiences a decent 5' rotary cutter, 200lbs of crap on the back (far back for more leverage) of said cutter AND loaded rears isn't enough. At least when pushing the loader hard.

 

[PILOON]

Well my rears were loaded with NAcl and some leaked.
Not pretty!
So with new tires installed I now have 'beet juice' as ballast.
I was lucky as the truck tire shop was well equipped and wire brushed my pitted rims and painted them B4 installing my new tires.
Problem was the new tires weather checked so badly over 6 months that they offered complete credit (well replacement) except they no longer manufacture them any more.
SO, today I have $900. new tires very weather checked and no alternatives but possibly to drain them and get them foam filled.
Wish I had known that B4 replacing the 'shoes'.
Making matters worst I am having trouble finding a tire foaming facility.
It is that or to find a close truck tire replacement* (18" tires). So far the tire rep has been of no help. The tire MFG has changed ownership, like 3 times. (Goodrich became Goodyear and now is Michelin) and the rep won't answer my emails. (well he did the first and promised to call back next day, (not))

NB, I like my CUT, does all I want but the tire problem will get the best of me yet.

* as U know ratios need to be respected if U want to avoid drive train damage.

 

[Fallon]

Well my rears were loaded with NAcl and some leaked.
Not pretty!
So with new tires installed I now have 'beet juice' as ballast.
I was lucky as the truck tire shop was well equipped and wire brushed my pitted rims and painted them B4 installing my new tires.
Problem was the new tires weather checked so badly over 6 months that they offered complete credit (well replacement) except they no longer manufacture them any more.
SO, today I have $900. new tires very weather checked and no alternatives but possibly to drain them and get them foam filled.
Wish I had known that B4 replacing the 'shoes'.
Making matters worst I am having trouble finding a tire foaming facility.
It is that or to find a close truck tire replacement* (18" tires). So far the tire rep has been of no help. The tire MFG has changed ownership, like 3 times. (Goodrich became Goodyear and now is Michelin) and the rep won't answer my emails. (well he did the first and promised to call back next day, (not))

NB, I like my CUT, does all I want but the tire problem will get the best of me yet.

* as U know ratios need to be respected if U want to avoid drive train damage.

You might be surprised how long they least, even being a weather checked. You could drain them & put in a tube. Will likely Las a VERY long time that way without spilling any juice. Might not be the prettiest, but will be the cheapest.

 

[ovrszd]

Run em til they blow.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Let's see, -40C is the same as -40F. Some of us do tractor at -40. That's what heated cabs are for.

OP,

Why don't you stop diddling around and just put Rim Guard in your rear tires. Iirc, Rim Guard is good for -40F(C), and I can't feel any ill effects from running it in my tractor rears at a true -40F air temp (no cheating "wind chill" garbage).

 

[fried1765]

That's a clever mental math trick. But Celsius and Centimeters never really get used alot in the U.S. except for healthcare, lab work, and some instruction manuals. So I try to relegate conversions to my handy cell phone apps and keep my personal mental processing power available for math and memory. Like you - I learned some mental math tricks like doing square roots manually and I'm constantly catching errors at checkout counters.

Now if the U.S. switches to the measurement standards of metric like the rest of the world - I'll have to get yet another math method engaged

Lets see -40C = -40 x 2 = -80 - 8 = -72 + 32 = -40 F And the result of the formula is . . . . nobody wants to be outside on a tractor at -40 "anything" LOL.

That "mental math trick" was very useful to me in my past life.
International aviation weather reports/forecasts are all given in metric measure.
Telling 418 mostly American passengers that the temperature forecast for arrival in the US would be 13C, would not have been helpful to them.
Telling them it would be 55F was a lot easier for them to understand.
Easier for me too!