VERY expensive beet juice!

[Don87]

Its used with salts for more effective road treatment.
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larry

I had heard that once before. I can't remember which state I was traveling through last winter, and noticed a reddish/brown tint to the snow. Could have been anywhere between Illinois and Massachusetts. I'll make note of it this winter.

 

[WilliamBos]

They pre spray the roads up here with sugar beet pulp before freezing rain storms. The only catch is the roads need to be basically dry for it to be affective.

Works great.

 

[chrisser]

OK a little off the beaten path of the subject but how do I figure how much fluid a tire will hold.
I will have 16.9x24 rears and12.5/80x18 fronts

Thanks for the assistance:thumbsup:

Google "tire ballast chart" or something similar and there are tables out there.

Here's one:

Liquid Tire Ballast

 

[EMB5530]

Google "tire ballast chart" or something similar and there are tables out there.

Here's one:

Liquid Tire Ballast

Much Obliged chrisser:thumbsup:

 

[Soundguy]

Ya know.......the thing that has puzzled me the most...............

Why is it so expensive...it is after all a by-product(IE: waste)Virtually all sugar content is gone, the product actually has no net value other than it won't freeze til temps get below -30F, and the fact that it is heavy. :confused3::confused3:

hmm.. i wonder if it started out as a wasteproduct but is now a production product.

i did some reading and found where originally it was even a feedstuff addative for cattle. if so, it still has some sugar and cellulose content i bet.

much like beet pulp shreds.. etc.

soundguy

 

[Short Game]

I remember one particular industry trying to pass off radioactive wastes as "fertilizer," and another saying the same of sewage sludge, renaming it, "bio-solids." We'd all be amazed at what we feed to animals that can't read or vote.

Storing wastes in tires is probably one of the more benign usages. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the sugar industry isn't still having to pay to get rid of some of the stuff, or that is hasn't been long since those days. We can be sure they produce more of the juice than every tractor tire in the country could hold. The price could only be maintained if the supply to the tractor tire fill market is controlled.

No expert here. Just wild guesses on my part.

 

[RaydaKub]

I remember ... another saying the same of sewage sludge, renaming it, "bio-solids." We'd all be amazed at what we feed to animals that can't read or vote.

Is spreading "bio-solids" on fields all that different than hauling manure out of a feedlot and spreading it on a field? That's been going on for over a hundred years.

 

[Short Game]

sludge-biosolids

 

[IslandTractor]

sludge-biosolids

That article belongs in with the rest of the pre processed sludge. It is one of the more confused examples of pseudo-scientific gibberish I've seen in a while.

 

[ruko]

One plus for weights is that they won't ever pour out onto the ground if you puncture a tire.

I've been thinking about what makes beet juice better at resisting freezing and have come to the conclusion that it is probably a colligative property resulting from the sugar content. Wonder if mixing up a syrup of plain old cane sugar and water would behave the same?

I've just assigned myself a new experiment for the winter...I'm going to mix up a saturated gallon of sugar water and leave it setting on the deck. If it doesn't freeze then I've just invented my new tire fluid!

Great idea! Heck of a lot cheaper than beet squeeze too. Did it work?