Tires Frozen tanks frozen tires?

[LouNY]

It would need to be sustained cold to completely freeze a tire solid.
In all probability an ice 'cage' would form first and driving would break that up fairly soon.
The more you drove the warmer the warmer would get making the contents slushy.
We in the cold zones know that moving water does not freeze as witnessed on many a lake or river at below freezing temps.

If you measured the temperature of the moving water it is always above freezing,
I have seen lines 3/4" and 1" freeze up while running full bore on a gravity system.
We have come across lots of issues trying to water cows from streams in the winter.
If the flowing water in question is coming from snow melt it is very cold almost freezing,
however if the stream flow is coming from springs or underground water it is quite warmer.
Try flowing surface melt water in a black plastic pipe a hundred feet to a watering trough in sub freezing
weather it will freeze up in the line.
Find a spring or under ground source of water and it will flow through some extremely cold weather.

A tire does not need to freeze solid for it to cause damage.
The tire in my brothers experience has a break in the casing on both sides of the tire about 3/4 of the way up the tire,
in 4 places inside and outside front and rear of the rim about 2 inches in height.
The tread face does not have damage visible from the outside, as the sidewalls do.

 

[Texasmark]

I don't know why you shouldn't drive on the frozen tires but don't think they are going to thaw in a day or two unless you have a method of heating them. Snow can stay in our yard for a month of above freezing temperatures and ice will last much longer if not exposed to direct sunshine.

One reason why is that the entire tire isn't filled with fluid making it a homogeneus rolling surface. Other concern is once partial freezing occurs, or solid freezing and partial thawing, the iceberg in the tire will bounce around and can impact the ability of the tube, or tubeless inner seal to maintain air pressure. Speaking from experience here N. of Dallas, after 10 days below freezing and one night at -4F, I waited a week and decided to move the tractor, 50% fill with some antifreeze, surely not 50-50, I could feel the "berg" floating and banging around even though I moved in creep gear, idle rpms and only moved the tractor out of the shed to run the engine and charge the battery.

 

[pmjerding]

Thank for the good replies. Everything turned out fine no damage. Dodged a bullet