fill ag tires @ 50% or 75% for lowest Vertical Center of Gravity (VCG)?

[ruffdog]

Like those spinner hubcaps but with one side weighted.

 

[Hay Dude]

Like those spinner hubcaps but with one side weighted.

Yes kind of like that, but very heavy built. I visualized the weight would have roller bearings pressed into the edge. You could make the circular track the different sizes for most common wheel bolt hole patterns.

 

[Hay Dude]

That is a nice idea.

Thanks. I think we farmers have to find a lot of solutions for problems in the field.
Somehow I think this was probably tried already and failed.

 

[jeff9366]

Beet juice as rear tire fill weights 30% more than equal volume of water.

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[Hay Dude]

Beet juice as rear tire fill weights 30% more than equal quantity of water.

I tried that in a few of my farm tractors. Works great until you have to change a tire, which happens with greater frequency when farming than you’d like :thumbdown:
It’s a mess and it smells. My tire company is telling me it’s beginning to go by the wayside. Less call for it as time goes by.

 

[RickB]

I tried that in a few of my farm tractors. Works great until you have to change a tire, which happens with greater frequency when farming than you壇 like :thumbdown:
It痴 a mess and it smells. My tire company is telling me it痴 beginning to go by the wayside. Less call for it as time goes by.

It is nasty stuff after a period of time. And not friendly to valve cores long term. Definitely going by the wayside.

 

[Hay Dude]

It is nasty stuff after a period of time. And not friendly to valve cores long term. Definitely going by the wayside.

I gashed a 38 on barbed wire and lost a lot of it on a backroad. Tire guy was barfing and cussing up a storm fixing that tire. I gave him $50 tip for getting me fixed up on top of the road service bill. Smelled like skunk.

 

[ruffdog]

Saying beet juice "smells" is a understatement. After 5 years in a tire, it smells like nasty crap with a dead raccoon thrown in and allowed to ferment.

 

[BrokenTrack]

Saying beet juice "smells" is a understatement. After 5 years in a tire, it smells like nasty crap with a dead raccoon thrown in and allowed to ferment.

That and its cost.

A whole bag of calcium chloride is what...$5?

Mix up a couple of them and pump it in your tire if you are going to have fluid-filled tires.

 

[ovrszd]

I dug 700 cubic yards out of my gravel pit last year with my little Kubota tractor with no fluid filled tires and managed just fine.

If a person can dig, dump, haul, load, fill and move that much gravel, 2200 times in severe service in rapid succession, I think it has more to do with operator skill in preventing an upset tractor, failing to get weight transfer, ineffective tractive effort, and poor break out forces, than having fluid filled tires.

But, get a tractor stuck in the mud with fluid filled tires, and a person will readily understand the kinetic energy involved when "rocking a tractor out of the mud", induces kinetic forces that far exceed the shear strength of high strength gears in the rear end. In other words, they will find out what is involved in changing the rear end out of their tractor.

In Grandpa's day, yeah we used fluid-filled tires, but none of our tractors have that any more. It just does not make any sense too; the bad outweighs the good by about ten to one.

Where did you get those stats, ten to one???

If you think that your tractor was performing just as well without filled tires doing FEL work as it would have with filled tires you are simply inexperienced with such ballast.