Traction Water in rear tires rust florida

[jeff9366]

Rim Guard. Rim Guard.

Does this brand name evoke a product that will rust rims?

I have NEVER read a post where Rim Guard nor foam have corroded rims.


A little silly to be considering a $40,000 to $50,000 tractor and be worrying about potential tire ballast cost. Foam and Rim Guard are the two densest, heaviest tire ballasts. Weight is what you need. Rim Guard is 30% heavier than water.

The "X" fluid you choose may deteriorate the rubber tire. Replacement rear tires are $900 each, ballasted and installed.

I would go with a known tire ballasting product. You should spend your hard earned money as you wish.

 

[RoyKing]

Why 60hp, one reason to get the higher rated front lift to move pallets, next heavy Bermuda grass 6 brush hog, short tractor for work around stuff with tight turn radius same for HST. For heaviest lifts I'll ballast with my brush hog for most stuff a box scrapper with 60 foot of boat yard chain hung on the inverted sod hooks and weighted tires. I use that chain behind the box scrapper to give ground a hand raked look. Cab with Ac cause I'm now fat and old and running down the pine tree rows without a cab in the summer in Florida left me eating, swating, and tick removal, covered with spiders and webs wasps.

 

[RoyKing]

How many times have punctured your tires and had to patch them, each time you have to refill, running in construction debris is hard on tires I can't remember how many screws and nails and external tire plugs don't seem to last. So when I need to break a rim loose to patch a hole and fill the tire that day I'd like 5 gallon pail of something I can add easily. so I guess foam would work but sounds like rough ride, I did order an air seat this time. I also ordered the industrial tires this time maybe they won't like nails and screws somehow the sand manages hold them so they got straight in.

 

[jeff9366]

Why 60hp, one reason to get the higher rated front lift to move pallets, next heavy Bermuda grass 6 brush hog.

Good reasons for a model L6060. With a cab either loaded rear tires or wheel weights will suffice. The cab adds ~~700~~ pounds, mostly bearing on the rear axle. Have you considered cast iron wheel weights?

Rather than dragging chain I would purchase a framed Chain Harrow, AKA lift Chain Harrow. The mat will collect trash and the lift feature will allow you to deposit trash in an inconspicuous place without departing cab. Three degrees of abrasion, plus level only, with a Chain Harrow.

There are several brands out there.

Wingfield make the highest quality iteration.

LINK: Wingfield American Drag Harrows

 

[jeff9366]

How many times have punctured your tires and had to patch them, each time you have to refill, running in construction debris is hard on tires I can't remember how many screws and nails and external tire plugs don't seem to last. So when I need to break a rim loose to patch a hole and fill the tire that day I'd like 5 gallon pail of something I can add easily. so I guess foam would work but sounds like rough ride, I did order an air seat this time.

If you operate over construction debris foam your tires. The foam is a solid. No air in a foamed tire, so foamed tires generate a little rougher ride.
Never deflation though.


Another option would be Kevlar ply demolition tires. There is air in Kevlar demolition tires but no flex, so Kevlar tires generate a little rougher ride too. About the same as foam. Low volume tire/expensive. Less heavy than either a Rim Guard or foamed tire.

 

[RoyKing]

before I foam a tire I'd have to ride one just might be too jarring, I'll ask my dealer if he ever seen any, I wonder what those front end loader tires are made like I don't see them down much other than hyd and hose problems.

 

[jeff9366]

Without a cab in the summer in Florida left me eating, swatting, and tick removal, covered with spiders and webs wasps.

I am forty miles west of Gainesville Kubota. Do not have any of that here.

 

[CADplans]

I would run water and a gallon of auto-type antifreeze.
The antifreeze is anti rust, and rubber friendly.

My 60HP tractor had calcium chloride in the tires for 40 years,,
I sold the old tires and rims when I found a new takeoff set,,

There was nothing wrong with my wheels after 40 years,,

I have methanol and water in the new tires and wheels,, that is what they sell for use in VA,,,

 

[oosik]

I have Rim Guard and have never noticed degradation of either the rim or the tire. So your choice should be Rim Guard, antifreeze, methanol/water mix or just air with wheel weights.

You have received good advice from those with a lot of experience.

 

[RoyKing]

Forty miles west of Gnv put you on sandy area cross city, Trenton. Head toward Marion county into clay areas with lots ponds and marsh land, we got five different kinds of mosquitos, mud dobbers, yellow jack, gators, hogs, gopher turtles, rattlers, tree spiders and banana spiders, black widows, lots of hawks, owls, buzzards, deer, alligator turtles, lots pine forests, and on dry season ticks. In my front yard I've kill three rattlers with 12 to 15 rattles around 6 feet with heads the size of your fist that won't run off they all gave me enough time go get a shotgun. I've been treed by hogs, shot at least 6 at less than twenty feet. Sunk a 12ft gator that was eating our dogs lost cats to coyotes. Hogs got so bad about 10 years ago one night I didn't I going to get in the house, front yard was all turned up in the morning. When you sink a tractor to its axles in clay and you winch off two trees you can hear the sucking sound as it comes out inch by inch. Clay that won't come out of your bucket and this past year has been wet. Come down hear I'll take you out into pine forest in my cabbed rtv and if it wasn't for raised roads it would be stuck. But clay is great for the horse hoofs lot of champions out of Ocala area.