kensfarm
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Seeing the condition of that tire.. the RR spike did you a favor! 
Caution moving railroad ties with tractor
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That there is a perfectly good tire! I got tires like that on mny tractor.. some of them bald with boots covering nickle sized holes.. they run around fine. With rubber priced the way it is, i run em' till they blow off the rim.
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Well, I got a new tire today. That tire looked exactly the same when I bought my tractor 12 years ago and it would have probably lasted me 10 more years if I hadn't spiked it. I brought my tire to a shop to be repaired and they quoted me $40 labor and $34 for a new tube but advised me to go ahead and get a new tire since the walls were so dry-rotted and cracked. So I bought a new tire for $249 with tax plus $10 state fee to dispose of old tire, $34 for tube and $40 labor. That was a Good Year tire that the previous owner said came on the tractor in 1978 and he got it recapped about 1988. If this tire lasts that long then I don't mind spending the money.
The way I knew I ran over anything was that the tube was filled with water and the water shot all over me when the tire went around. The good part was that the rim looked like new inside with no rust. I had read an earlier post where tires were filled with different liquids and caused severe rust. I didn't even know the tire was filled because even though I put over 3000 hours on the tractor and replaced the other 3 tires, I had never even put air in that one. Both the tire retailer and the tire repair shop got a chuckle out of the tire. The repair shop told me "they couldn't find the leak" then he showed me the spike hanging on the wall of his shop as a "trophy".
I brought my tire to a shop to be repaired and they quoted me $40 labor and $34 for a new tube but advised me to go ahead and get a new tire since the walls were so dry-rotted and cracked. So I bought a new tire for $249 with tax plus $10 state fee to dispose of old tire, $34 for tube and $40 labor. That was a Good Year tire that the previous owner said came on the tractor in 1978 and he got it recapped about 1988. If this tire lasts that long then I don't mind spending the money. The way I knew I ran over anything was that the tube was filled with water and the water shot all over me when the tire went around. The good part was that the rim looked like new inside with no rust. I had read an earlier post where tires were filled with different liquids and caused severe rust. I didn't even know the tire was filled because even though I put over 3000 hours on the tractor and replaced the other 3 tires, I had never even put air in that one.
Both the tire retailer and the tire repair shop got a chuckle out of the tire. The repair shop told me "they couldn't find the leak" then he showed me the spike hanging on the wall of his shop as a "trophy".Unclebuck257
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Several years ago I built myself a rifle/shooting range on the place. I used RR ties as the backstop, and doubled them, back to back, in thickness for the backstop. I got the RR ties from a large pile a friend had bought. Before any RR tie was put onto my trialer to bring to my place, it was inspected for just what this picture shows and also for those large nails (not spikes) they use too. We had quite a pile of spikes and nails at the buddy's place.
After I got them here on the trailer, I inspected each one again as it was unloaded. I was amazed at how many more spikes, but mainly those huge nails, we found. The dark brown color of the RR ties and the brown color of those rusted nails make it difficult to see all the nails in one check. Make sure you check them over several times before you declare them "clean".
After I got them here on the trailer, I inspected each one again as it was unloaded. I was amazed at how many more spikes, but mainly those huge nails, we found. The dark brown color of the RR ties and the brown color of those rusted nails make it difficult to see all the nails in one check. Make sure you check them over several times before you declare them "clean".
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Funny aint it. The way some people talk.. you'd think a filled tire has -0-% chance to have a decent rim ( depending on what it is filled with.. ). Glad you were on the luckeir side. Even if it was not a corosive ballast in the water.. the water and entrained air itself could have caused some corrosion. Just goes to show you that there is a big difference between the possibility of something happening, and it deffinately happening...
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