Removed water from rears and beads popped...now what?

[AlanB]

I am assuming it too, but most folks that I know that load tires, put in tubes as protection for their rims.

And I make the wrong assumptions too many times reading things on these boards.

For me, on our equipment, I want tubeless so I can plug tires as they get holes.

We are working on our second box this season of plugs, that is over 50 repairs (ouch) although some were repairs that did not work and some are do-overs and some are holes with more then one plug.

It sure is handy to shove a plug in and go though rather then too have to pull out a tube and patch it.

And if I had to call in a service truck each time we had a flat, I think we would be out of business.

 

[IslandTractor]

We are working on our second box this season of plugs, that is over 50 repairs (ouch) although some were repairs that did not work and some are do-overs and some are holes with more then one plug.

What are you driving over??? I have 250hrs on my tractors doing a lot of bush hogging but have yet to have a single puncture in the R4s. I cannot figure out how anyone could have that many punctures.

 

[AlanB]

What are you driving over??? I have 250hrs on my tractors doing a lot of bush hogging but have yet to have a single puncture in the R4s. I cannot figure out how anyone could have that many punctures.

SWMBO has a landscaping lawncare business. We run a pretty fair # of tires on the ground any particular day. Two trucks = 10 tires on the road, both pulling tandem trailers = another 8, both unloading something with tires, usually 2 mowers = another 8 tires on the ground for mowers any particular day, throw in the odd equipment trailer, tractor, backhoe, bobcat, wheelbarrow etc. then figure in that we are running back and forth too the dump etc. and dumping and loading in areas that are literally construction sites, or "getting cleaned up" and we get plenty of exposure.

To be honest, this year has been better then most. One year, I was over a flat a day.

This year, my daughter ran over a little pitchfork head the kind that looks like a garden hoe, with the front tire of an exmark, 4 nice holes. She also picked up 3 nails in a back tire that same day, only one caused a hole though. At some point, it is the cost of doing business.

Fri morning I was fixing a flat on the dump trailer. Found the hole, started pulling out the nail, commented to the wife, how it had worn the head off pointy which was unusual, kept pulling then it got hard, levered it out to realize that the nail had went through the tire "backwards" and the head had went through (oh, by the way this is through a less then one month old load range D trailer tire) probably drove over a rotten pallet and punched the nail through.

Yeah, this is one of the costs of business that most folks overlook. But I do have a nice set of tire tools

Oh, and this is what I meant by "tire grease"

Murphy's Concentrated Tire and Tube Mounting Compound (8lb Pail) (MU-2000): All Tire Supply Company

Always makes me think of Go-Jo, and then you just scrape it off and throw it back in the bucket to use on the next one.

If you do a lot of bushogging and have not had a single puncture, I am willing to bet that most of it was on your own land.

 

[Bedlam]

Here is one that is a little bit smoother. It appears you want the explosive gasses on the inside of the tire.Even so, I would have done it away from vehicles and the garage.
YouTube - Tire Mounting 101

 

[IslandTractor]

Here is one that is a little bit smoother. It appears you want the explosive gasses on the inside of the tire.Even so, I would have done it away from vehicles and the garage.
YouTube - Tire Mounting 101

That guy makes it look easy.

 

[N80]

For me, on our equipment, I want tubeless so I can plug tires as they get holes.

Right. I prefer tubeless myself. I was just saying that one good argument for tubes is being able to change tires, etc without professional help. Changing a tube is a pain, but it can be done.

There is a fair chance that the OP is going to have to get professional help.

My property is informally named Honey Locust Hill. I think I'd have popped a bunch of tubes by now on locust thorns, but as it is I have not had a puncture flat in the three years I've had my tractor. So I'm happy with no tubes. And the rears are filled.

 

[Ridgewalker]

Theres always the starting fluid method of seating the beads..............

Been there, done that and was dutifully scared by the whole experience.

It is kind of fun if you live thru it.

 

[Mr. Green Jeans]

Starter fluid is definitely the way to go...

Note how little starting fluid he uses.

That is the key. Don't go nuts with it. We did it a little different from those videos, though, we brought a small line of fluid to the outside of the tire and lit that.

I used to know a guy that would take out the valve core, attach the tire directly to the air hose, then hit the tread area with a sledge hammer. I could never get that method down, though.

 

[Grrrr]

I might actually try this method today, on an old muckspreader tire, that is about the same size as a small tractor tire, before calling out the tire people.

Will see how I get on.

 

[skipro3]

Well, 4 days since we have heard from Grrr. Maybe someone should make a phone call......