Tires Molasses filled tires

[Jnasystems]

Anyone heard of this? My dealer said they had the rear tires of every tractor sold with a loader filled with a molasses based product for ballast, including my BX. I have joked with friends that I have the sweetest tractor around, but now I am looking at having the tires on my AC WD filled and wanted to get the opinions of those here.

My dilemma has the additional wrinkle in that my preferred dealer is 250 miles away and when I contacted Pomp's tire service (a tire company that deals with every type of tire - from hand dollies to mining equipment) they wouldn't talk about filling tires with anything but calcium chloride. The guy was very adamant that it was the best product and the only thing they would put in.

In doing some research on-line it seems there are some advantages to using molasses as ballast, but it also seems to be a relatively new idea. What do you think?

 

[beenthere]

Sounds like a sticky mess to me.

Have heard of beet "juice" which is a by-product of sugar beet processing. But not molasses. Maybe the juice is referred to as molasses ??

Here is a previous thread about it too.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/154619-tires-loaded-molasses.html

Add this definition of molasses.
Molasses is a thick, brown to deep black, honey-like substance made when cane or beet sugar is processed. It is enjoyed as a sweetener in many countries, and most particularly in England where it is called treacle. For hundreds of years, molasses and sulfur, or treacle and brimstone were thought to have healthful benefits, and children were frequently given doses of the product.

 

[nybirdman]

Beet Juice........aka RIM GUARD....non corrosive,non-freeze..cal/choride is old school..rots your rims...not very enviromentaly friendly..find some one else.

 

[flusher]

Beet Juice........aka RIM GUARD....non corrosive,non-freeze..cal/choride is old school..rots your rims...not very enviromentaly friendly..find some one else.

Yep, RG is about 25-30% denser than straight water.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I am sure that you are not getting molasses. HECK that is so thick at room temperature, it will hardly move and at freezing temp it would be like concrete in your tires. I am sure he meant RimGuard which is slightly sweet I am told.

 

[HiTechTed]

Man if you had tires filled with molasses and somebody had to remove a tire, I'm sure they would be very angry about it. I've been thinking about how to mix up sugar water for tires but it would take a lot of sugar and the expense would probably be higher than RG.

 

[Carykong]

water,sugar (molassas), hummmm a little yeast, makes alchohol and CO2. Your tires will be very happy.

 

[whistlepig]

There was a similar post like this a while back. One of the members lives in bear country and was afraid the bears would eat his tires if he filled them with molasses.

 

[rd_macgregor]

water,sugar (molassas), hummmm a little yeast, makes alchohol and CO2. Your tires will be very happy.

And self-inflating!

 

[gauthier]

Used to help make molasses,[after we growed the cane],,,got methinal and water in mine.