Ballast want get rid of calcium in tires

[fried1765]

What we do whe moving a heavy tire and wheel assembly is to get the tractor ready to be jacked up.
If you are going to pull both of the same axle have blocks and wheel chocks in place.
Once you get the lug nut off and the jack adjusted so the wheel is loose on the lugs it can be carefully walked of the hub and away from
the axle were it can be carefully rolled to a safe place to rest it.
As long as you are carefull and keep the tire upright you can handle a large loaded wheel and tire if it starts to get away from you you have to be willing to step back and let it tear up whatever it wants to.
Also an engine hoist works good for holding a tire up right,
I built an engine hoist a few (several) years ago ad we have pulled a few wheels off using it, usually have to use a couple of bars or a come a long to get it to move as the castors are hard to roll.

I do it the easy way.

If it is the right rear tire, I put the right side stabilizer down, and remove the right tire.
If it is the left rear tire, I put the left stabilizer down, and remove the left tire.

See how easy it can be! :dance1:

 

[LouNY]

I suppose that will work with a backhoe and a smaller tire/tractor,
I know most of the hoes that I use the stabilizers are ot fine enough for me to just get the tractor weight off the lugs and not get the tire weight on the studs.
ready to jack
one tire off
both off and leaned against the fronts, they are 18.4-30's

 

[Smokeydog]

We ran calcium chloride in dozens of tractors for decades and only needed to replace one rim. Anytime checking air pressure alway wash rims. Wash and touch paint up.

A tire shop may remove the fluid for free. They will sell to someone for an older tractor tire repair.

My 1958 Ford 850 always had calcium in original rims. Sprayed corrosionX on rusty areas in the later years. Only sold it a little while ago...downsizing rolling stock.

Current tractors use methanol. Not corrosive but not as heavy.

 

[hosspuller]

Safe and easy way to handle loaded tires 16.9 x 28 Notice the tire laying down has a spacer block to get the strap on.

 

[Sberry]

I diy too.

 

[bironacad]

Thanks everyone! interesting ideas, rolling castors and a clamps, engine hoist, all good ideas. Would be nice if I had the use of my tractor to work on my tractor, lol. Some people on this site have lots of very nice toys. I will have to get the wheel off just to change a cracked windshield fluid bottle, ugh, both pump motors are toast and the bottle is cracked. Thought I could silicone the crack but after doing that and filling the bottle the motors won't pump, lol. I have moved on from the idea of removing the calcium but still would like to get the wheel off and back on to change the bottle, I can throw snow on the windshield in the mean time.

 

[Sberry]

 

[Sberry]

I agree with the concept the dealer would be costly as a PM maneuver. Its a great idea to see what the cost of new is and the cost of tubes for some repair. There were a couple dealers real competitive on new sale and installs but they did crap work and a drive to get there, or a road call,,, it was one of my duh moments to rig up a little to do this. It hadnt cost me much but it was all a hassle or 2 steps if it needed repair.
Same juice, same tire, a patch to the tube from a puncture, 2$ in materials, couple hours work. Some of it can be done on the tractor but if its old and got to be worked on I have the stuff and simply take them off so I can work on them on the floor.

 

[Sberry]

We get caught once in a while but we do a lot of stuff too. Paying for service is too costly and time consuming, after I watch a couple do a tire or 2 and haul a couple rims around I have a duh moment I should have had earlier and rig up to do them.

 

[arrow]

Any suggestions on how to get tires off the rims and back on?

When I changed out my tires loaded w calcium, I first got a cheap Harbor Freight pump and pumped all the calcium out.
Northern tools sells a set of "tire spoons" 30" long that i used to dismount the tires.
I got a 2x6 board, layed it across the tire and drove my pick up onto the board that was on the tires to break the bead.
I left one of the tires with the pick up on it all night and by morning, the bead was broken.
The spoons got the tire off and put it back on.
In the meantime, I brought the rims to a local welder and he tigged the two dime size holes in the rim caused by the calcium.
I then painted the rims with "bridge paint" on the insides,
I brought the tires to my local tractor dealership and loaded them up with beet juice, brought them home, and remounted them on the tractor.
I made sure the front of the tractor was facing outward so I could use the fel to pick up the tires from the p.u. bed and rolled the loaded tires to mount them back on the tractor.