Buying Advice Wheel Weights or Calcium

[David_Kb7uns]

No myth have two tractors, one with Calcium and the other with Rimguard, guess which one has rusting wheels and had to be welded on. Around here the Kubota dealers and tire guys only have Rimguard or the other Bio products, CC is gone you should see what it does to their pumps and equipment.
As for using salts on roads, Oregon does and will not use salt on roads for what it does to habitat, only thing they use is cinders, sand and Magnesium Chloride as a deicer and that even is slightly corrosive

As for a tractor doing alot of mowing lighter helps so the weights are a good idea so for when I need more weight on the BX I add the weights.

David kb7uns

 

[SPYDERLK]

To summarize, then....

You and others like Calcium Chloride. I and others like Methanol. And yet others like Rim Guard. We all have our own reasons for our choices, each of which is as valid as any other.

With that in mind, here's a comparison of the most popular ballast choices. As you'll see, they each have pros and cons, so each of us will choose based on what's important to us.

Well, the problem with that chart is that all those 0% difference wrt water are wrong. The glycols are heavier and the WWF and methanol [alcohols] are lighter. This could cause some choices to be made without informed reason and therefore invalid as any other made without reason.
larry

 

[bstrom]

Tubes are recommended if using CC. My dealer has switched to Rimguard. He says he will probably be selling less rims to replace ones rusted through from CC. The rimguard is expensive but is supposed to be less corrosive. It's a pretty new product so time will tell I guess. I used it for those reasons and also because I didn't want to put tubes in my tires. I like the way the cool industrial brass valve stems look

 

[studhauler]

To revive an old post; to reduce or eliminate the amount of free oxygen in any fill tire/rim combo, how about filling it with nitrogen instead of air?

What is the cost difference between CC and Rimguard?

Cody

 

[art]

For about twenty years tires on tractors have been coming tubeless. Calcium has been the number one form of additional ballast for more years then then I can remember and we have often added more weight yet to deal with the hilly terrain in central NY.

Calcium adds a lot of weight to the water so it does work well for the additional weight but over the last twenty years we have been changing and we have stopped using the calcium as much and when that type of ballast is needed we have replaced it with rim guard. I can't say that calcium isn't harmful as we can look on the sides of our roads here and we always see dead trees!

I've seen the difference in performance on farms with identical tractors, size of tires as well as make of tires and there are differences!!!!! The fluid filled tires not able to perform as well as other systems for traction. So for this reason I prefer a different type of ballast like wheel weights. For what we have seen it can take 25 to 40 percent less weight then to fill the tires although we have not done any major comparisons. My favorite ballast for loader work is three point although cast on the wheels will give a good basse to work from so you can use the rear axle as a pivot so there is less stress on the front end componets.

 

[wny770]

Calcium Chloride is effective, economical and safe for use or it would not have been used longer than most of us have been alive, nor would the farmers and contractors that depend on their equipment continue to use it.


I have a pair of tubeless tires that have been loaded with Calcium for over 35 years with no problem. A normal puncture in a tubeless tire can be repaired in short order with a plug and minimal loss of fluid. Tubes, as recommended by many to combat the "corrosion problem", create serious tire repair inconvenience.

Wow. I toy with antique tractors, and EVERY set of wheels that have had calcium in, I have had to replace. Oh, maybe 10 sets over the years... 35 years with no rot.... Wow.......