Tires New 3510 in Texas. Water in tires?

[Bob1431]

Allen,
I may have opened a bag of worms on the road driving. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif I have not had that much experience on this. I guess that I was assuming too much. Someone else may have more on this than I do. I was assuming that due to the fact that the tires are not "full", they might have be unbalanced at anything other than working speed. I have a total of 7.5 hours on my 3510. Fortunately I have had quite a bit of tractor seat time on other tractors, mowing, baling hay, loading wagons, the general tractor type work. The basic reason for filling the tires is to add more weight so you can utilize the weight for more traction. Most of my work will be in dirt and on a gravel drive, either pulling trees and/or stumps as well as keeping the drives passable with the rear blade. (Also filling my own dug holes)
If you have the option, try your tractor without filling the tires and see how it goes. I believe it has been mentioned somewhere here on TBN that the added weight can/will add more wear on the tractor. That seems to make sense, however I'm sure some of the guys have backhoes attached that would outweigh the filled tires and they probably don't worry about the added weight. Your dealer may have more to add on this. If we are lucky, we may get more feed back here on this site.
Bob

 

[Bob1431]

Pete,
Yeah, tear it up now and have more fun later. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif So far the tractor doesn't seem too big for my place. I'm certain that I wouldn't have been satisfied with anything smaller. I think in this case too big is better than too small I am still removing trees to get a "path" to where the real work is. I went across the CFO's lawn once and decided not to go that route again. It is hard to grade out the tracks in St. Augustine turf. I suppose that it could be done by hand, but why take away tractor time? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Bob

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Do filled tires negatively affect on road driving? I will be doing this quite a bit. )</font>

Allen, several years ago a neighbor bought an 85hp Oliver. He knew that it came from Minnesota, but he didn't know that it had calcium filled tires until the first tire puncture. He and I have both driven it many miles from his house to hayfields (up to 20 miles at a time) wide open on the roads, both when it had filled tires, and when it didn't (after he had to buy new rims to replace the ones rusted out by the calcium). And I had a B2910 that I drove wide open on the roads both before and after I filled the rear tires with water and antifreeze. Personally, I never noticed any difference in the handling on the road with or without filled tires.