Water in tyres?

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We used to use a lot of Calcium Nitrate fertilizer growing peaches and vegetables. It is a good source of Nitrate nitrogen that becomes available to plants quicker in cold soils than does an Ammonium source of Nitrogen. It also does not make the soil as acid as does the Ammonium Nitrate. Lately, though, research has shown the advantages might not be quite as much as previously believed, as is reported by this research from Auburn.

http://www.ag.auburn.edu/aaes/communications/highlights/spring98/tomato.html

Here is some information from the company that produces much of the Calcium Nitrate used on vegetable crops in the US.

http://www.yara.us/en/crop_fertilization/crop_advice/vegetables/cole_crops_veg.html

You can learn something on the internet every day, can't you?

 

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I know this is off-topic, but it is funny how things like this can trigger memories.

I suddenly had a vivid mental image of my Daddy (that's what we call "Dads" in the South) with a 100 lb. bag of "Bulldog Nitrate of Soda" on each shoulder walking between two rows of eight inch tall cotton. He was taking it to where he had just emptied the hopper on the then not-so-old Covington side dresser. He didn't bother to drive the tractor, a 600 Ford, to the end of the row to fill up the hopper when he ran out. That had to be over 45 years ago, because he quit growing cotton and started growing vegetables exclusively about 1960. That would have made that 600 a fairly new tractor then, too.

As Willie said, "Ain't it funny how time slips away."

 

[Soundguy]

To get them back, just look for their grammar and spelling. That always works.

I resemble that remark!

Soundguy

 

[D7E]

Most big tractors have fluid in the tires even big articulated tractors, usually only in centre ones dual wheels are usually left empty to make removal easier.
In england water was mixed with regular cooking salt probably no good in colder country .
Here in canada we use calcium chloride seems to handle 40 below ok.

 

[RegL]

Hmm, might we be thinking of calcium nitrate in fertilizer?

Calcium nitrate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calcium nitrate, also called Norgessalpeter (Norwegian saltpeter) and Kalksalpeter, is a white coloured soluble salt with the formula Ca(NO3)2.4H2O. It is deliquescent, readily absorbing moisture from the air. It is used as a reagent, a pyrotechnic and a fertilizer. The fertilizer grade (15.5-0-0 + 19% Ca) is popular in the greenhouse and hydroponics trades; it has some ammonium nitrate and water incorporated in the molecular structure as 5Ca(NO3)2.NH4NO3.10H2O. There also is a formulation without ammonia: Ca(NO3)2.3H2O (12.8-0-0 + 18.3%Ca).

Norgessalpeter was the first nitrogen fertilizer compound to be manufactured. Production began at Notodden, Norway in 1905. Most of the world's calcium nitrate is now made in Porsgrunn.

Nitrocalcite is a form of calcium nitrate which occurs in nature. It occasionally forms an efflorescence where manure contacts concrete or limestone in a dry environment, as in stables or caverns.

Saltpeter, Would that not cause your tires to stay soft? lol