the_g
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Thanks to all of the threads about loading your own tires I decided to try it myself on my new BX2200. I purchased the special valve at a local NAPA store and then bought 24 gallons of windshield washer fluid good to -25 F. I used one of those little pumps that is driven by your electric drill and a five gallon bucket. I lowered the FEL and placed my floor jack appropriately in the center of the rear hitch to elevate the rear tires off the ground. After shifting it a couple of times slightly to one side or the other I finally got the tractor to balance with "BOTH" rear tires in the air. (Rule#1="Don't due this") I placed my little foot stool beside the right rear tire and rotated it until the valve stem was at the 12:00 position. I took the valve out of the stem, connected the adapter and began filling my 5 gal pail with the washer fluid. It was at this point that I decided my foot stool seemed a little to high and I would be much more comfortable if it was just a little taller. I pondered this for a bit and after looking around for something else to sit on that was a little higher, IT CAME TO ME!! Just jack the rear of the tractor higher in the air stupid...Duh!! (Rule#2= "Don't due this"). I had been thru my first 5 gals of filling and was on my second bucket, everything was going so well, I was so proud of myself and all of my precautions, my equipment and most of all, the detailed knowledge that I had gained from this site that was allowing me to fill my own first tractor tire! WOW..this was cool and sooooooo easy to due! The only thing that I had forgotten was the simple lessons of Physics that I had done so well in school with. "WATER is HEAVIER then AIR!! - Simple, but soon forgotten! Suddenly....Like the TITANIC...the tractor began to slowly list toward me...My "Lightbulb" lite up and panic began to rush in..One hand on the electric drill and one hand on the hose keeping it in the bucket and my tractor tilting more and more towards me with nothing to stop it except when the rear wheel touches the ground, which by my earlier statement had "some" distance still left to go! This is how I always seem to screw up the simple things in life! Thank the lord that he gave me a large enough set of lungs to be heard thru walls, a breezeway and a blaring television set, thank him again that my daughter was home at the time and finally, thank him again that there were 2 cement blocks sitting on the floor on the opposite side of the tractor..cause little girls don't know how to operate those "Manly" floor jacks, but they can lift cement blocks and place them gently on the running boards on the left side of the tractor.
Lowering the tractor, and 10 gals later in each tire, cleaning up all the tools and putting the equipment away, it was time to relax and ponder just how "stupid" I can sometimes be!!! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
New BX2200, FEL, Front mount snow blower and "#$%^"*#" LOADED tires!
Lowering the tractor, and 10 gals later in each tire, cleaning up all the tools and putting the equipment away, it was time to relax and ponder just how "stupid" I can sometimes be!!! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
New BX2200, FEL, Front mount snow blower and "#$%^"*#" LOADED tires!
