Blew out another turf tire

[Skeletor]

We’ll I blew out a front a little while ago. I had it tubed and it’s been fine. I had a blow out in a rear tire filled with rimguard. I got it to stop with two plugs. I used it most of the day with no problems. At the end of the day it started leaking in another spot. It’s within a couple inches of the plugged area. I think I’m just asking too much if the tires labeled grass master haha. I wish I wouldn’t have let the dealer talk me into turfs after I said I wanted r14s.

Stupid question but on a filled tire how do I try to save the beet juice? If I get this tire tubed can I still use the beet juice? I’m new to this stuff but I’m learning a lot.

 

[jeff9366]

The dealer talked me into turfs after I said I wanted r14s.

R14 tires are another form of 4-ply turf tire.

If you need tough tires order 6-ply R4/industrial tires. ( Also readily available in 8-ply and 10-ply versions marketed as Skid Steer tires, but no different except in ply-layers -- but perhaps not for subcompact category tractors.)

Few here would equip a backhoe tractor with anything but R4/industrial tires.

If you live in the warm Sunbelt, water is often sufficient as a rear tire liquid.

Few "load" front tires with liquid. Your traction is produced almost entirely by the large rear tires. The rear axle is much heavier than the front axle and rear axle does not pivot. Subcompact tractors have very light front axles. Loaded front tires can stress power steering.

I picked up a 1725mb a few months ago. I got rimguard in the tires but I’d like to run some wheel weights as well for additional traction when moving firewood around. I haven’t taken the backhoe off since I got it.

A mounted Backhoe is the best possible counterbalance to firewood loads carried in the Front End Loader.

When a Backhoe is mounted on a tractor most of the time, air inflated tires are the norm, to optimize float over wet/damp soils.

Within subcompact and compact tractor categories, a significant tractor capability increase requires a bare tractor weight increase of 50%. It takes a 100% increase in bare tractor weight to elicit MY-OH-MY!

Questions like this can be better answered if you inform us of your location.

 

[Diggin It]

If you have any kind of rough ground with roots, rocks or thorns, you need something more than turfs on a tractor. Turfs are for riding mowers. I have them on both of my riders and will be looking for something tougher when they need to be replaced. I have R4s on the SCUT and can't really say as I'm happy with them and they slip on wet or soft ground. But R14s weren't available then and R1s were too aggressive.

I de-rimmed one of my rears for reasons I'm still not sure of. It lost all of the beat juice ... there isn't a way to save it that I know of. For just a puncture, maybe raise the machine and set a tray underneath to catch as much as possible, but I'm not sure they can re-use it.

 

[oldnslo]

Talk to the company that filled your tires. They should be able to pump fluid of your tire and back in to new tire or tube.

Are you just puncturing the tires? If yes tubes won’t help much with that.

 

[jeff9366]

Talk to the company that filled your tires. They should be able to pump fluid of your tire and back in to new tire or tube.

Are you just puncturing the tires? If yes tubes won’t help much with that.

OP has a subcompact tractor. I doubt any dealer will recycle 3-4 gallons of beet juice.

 

[Eagle1]

You can get 8 ply turf tires makes a huge difference with flats. Little bit more $$$ but last much longer.

 

[Skeletor]

That sounds for the reply’s guys. I’m in Connecticut. I’ve been moving alot of stone 3” minus and I believe the hard edges are just puncturing the tires over time. The stone work wasn’t really a planned thing when I bought the tractor. As I notice how capable the machine was I decided to take on a project that will expand my firewood work and storage area by a good amount. I just needed to level the ground off as it was very sloped.

I did email the dealer I bought the tractor from but they haven’t bred hood at getting back to be now that I bought the tractor. Before purchase they were very prompt……

 

[ruffdog]

What ply rating is the turf, R4, R14 and R1 tire choices? If the turfs were only 4 ply, it was a poor choice by the dealer/manufacturer. Even a Deere X700 series garden tractor offers 6 ply tires.

What is poking holes in your tires? Is it sharp little mowed off tree stubs? Over inflated low ply tires with a bunch of weight on them are prone to punctures.

The fix....with that set-up, you need quality 6 ply tires on that tractor as a minimum. Not just a R4 looking tread on a light duty carcass.

 

[ruffdog]

Here is the thread when the OP blew the first tire:

Blew out the turf tire on the last scoop of the day.

 

[Eagle1]

I just purchased a tractor. I tried contacting dealers of all colors within a 300 mile radius and only ONE responded. Used tractor 120 miles away. Made decent deal and they delivered. I did get one other dealer on the phone after 2 days of trying. I don't have time/money to drive 2 to 4 hour+ round trips to visit tractor dealers. Nearest dealer I know is a hour and I'm not a fan.

That said - I quit cutting tires on rocks once I switched to 8 ply turfs and I do a lot of gravel and firewood moving on 90+ acres in the hills.