Straight Water?

[Soundguy]

in georgia you will see freezing temps. I bought a rowcrop ford there a couple years ago.. water in steering box and hyd sump was froze. could not turn steering wheel, and no hyds.

i'd mix a lean amount of eco safe antifreeze into each tire. say.. 1 bottle each. it will be weak.. but will reduce freeze point, and a slushy in a tire is ok... just don't want a flat block of ice on the bottom.. would take probably a couple days of below freezing for that to go anyway..

Okay, so I know this has been hacked out plenty of times in the past but I'm too lazy to try to find old posts.

I talked to my dealer yesterday and asked him what he suggested for filling my tires with liquid.

He has been in the business for many, many (did I say many) years. He said...are you ready....straight water. WHAT!!!

After putting this off for soooo long because I couldn't make up my mind on what to do from all the reading I've done.

He strongly advised against calcium chloride. Said they did that in the old days. It has a lot of salt so it will rust the wheels.

I asked about antifreeze. He said, "If it gets cold enough in our area to freeze the water in your tires, we both need to move further south".

I asked about 'beet juice".....He bursted out laughing!:laughing:

I thought, just to be on the safe side, that I would add antifreeze, but I can't figure out how to get it in there.

What say yee? I'm ready to do something even if it's wrong.:mur:

 

[teg]

A friend filled his garden hose up with straight antifreeze, just poured it in. Then attached the hose to fill the tire with water. Pretty quick and easy.

 

[Soundguy]

drill pumps are 4$ at harbor freight...

 

[wrangler6831]

#1 take tire off tractor

#2 break down 1 side of tire

#3 pure fluid (windsheild washer fluid usually good till 0 degrees) in till it runs out

#4 air tire back up

#5 re-install

I can do both wheels in the time it takes to do 1 with a drill pump and purge method.

Its a little harder but way less time.



Rich

 

[Farmerford]

I have been using straight water in middle Georgia since the 1950's on tube type tires and never had a freezing problem. I have been using straight water in tubeless tires for about 15 years and when I last removed a tire (summer 2011) the rims were not rusted.

If you are concerned about freezing and want to use anti-freeze, use at least a 30% by volume mixture. At less than 30% concentration the ethelyne glycol in the antifreeze will slowly deteriorate; some kind of internal self destruction that does not occur above 30%. I don't know whether that also destroys the anti-rust additives in the anti-freeze.

 

[Down South]

I never knew anything about salt water in tires, or anti freeze or beet juice in tires till I started reading these forums these last 2 years.

Always water. Grated we don't get hard freezes that often in south MS, and i don't remember doing tractor work when it did.

Well I do remember pulling the truck out of the ditch when it was iced over one year.

As i understand it, ice in the tires slices up the insides out. But never noticed.

Now i have a Ford tractor with salt water and rim cancer to replace but i got that 3rd hand and 40+ years old.

I looked at a chart, dont know if its real antifreeze or 50/50 but they were talking 55gal needed 14 gal of that antifreeze to protect at 10 degrees.

Is this anywhere close?

DS

Ant found any beet juice around here and that is dirt cheap compared to foam.

 

[Bird]

Way back in the late '50s I sometimes fixed flats on tractor tires and then filled them with plain water. In the '90s when I filled the tires on my Kubota, I added a couple of gallons of anti-freeze to each one, but later asked a couple of neighbors who were real farmers with bigger tractors and they said they never used anything but straight water.

 

[wrflt]

A friend filled his garden hose up with straight antifreeze, just poured it in. Then attached the hose to fill the tire with water. Pretty quick and easy.

I'm liking this one!

 

[SSdoxie]

#10 Put the cap back on the valve stem !!!!

He forgot "turn pump off" so that puts it up #11 uneven number again.:laughing::laughing:

 

[wrflt]

He forgot "turn pump off" so that puts it up #11 uneven number again.:laughing::laughing:

Oh Jeeez...now you've definitely exceeded my comprehension ability.:confused2: