Why not sugar water in tires instead of beet juice?

[Bentrim]

Does anyone here know the result of driving on tires with ice inside?

Yep ice cuts tube = flat tire

 

[wamendt]

Mix a little yeast with the sugar. Not sure how it’s gonna taste but it could be a new drink! Especially after being churned around in a field for three months…

ok, I’m kidding but prisoners do it all the time!

 

[coast40]

Mix a little yeast with the sugar. Not sure how it’s gonna taste but it could be a new drink! Especially after being churned around in a field for three months…

ok, I’m kidding but prisoners do it all the time!

Pruno! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruno

 

[charles todd]

I’ll sell you honey... $10/pound

13 lbs to the gallon.

CT

 

[marhar]

Mix a little yeast with the sugar. Not sure how it’s gonna taste but it could be a new drink! Especially after being churned around in a field for three months…

ok, I’m kidding but prisoners do it all the time!

I know you are joking: The constant fermentation would keep the tires fully inflated! LOL

 

[950deerehunter]

I won't need to use a 2 to 1 solution. I might bee able to get by with a 1 to 1 solution. I already have wheel weights mounted that weigh about 70 lbs. each. I looked at a chart and it shows that for the size tires I have each tire filled with 25 gallons will result in an approx. 70% fill. Because of the wheel weights another 200 lbs. of weight need to be added according to the Yanmar manual. At 8 lbs. per gallon it looks like pure water will do. But where I live it does get into the low 20s and rarely into the teens. Not for long, but it does happen. So I am going to find out which will work better for lowering the freezing temperature to 15 degrees F, sugar or the safe anti-freeze. By better I mean weight, cost, and volume wise. This may mean freezing samples myself. With mixed sugar, anti freeze, and water. It could be fun.
Eric

Fellow Western Washington member here and I get my tires filled with beet juice at my local tractor tire dealer for 3.00 dollars per gallon. Beet juice weighs about 11 lbs./gal. You needing 200 lbs. would need 18.2 gals. which would be around 55.00 dollars per tire. This would be around 57% of the volume of the tire. This is perfect in my opinion because it keeps the liquid level well below the fill valve when it is in the top position and won't spray out when trying to check tire pressure.

 

[charles todd]

Fellow Western Washington member here and I get my tires filled with beet juice at my local tractor tire dealer for 3.00 dollars per gallon. Beet juice weighs about 11 lbs./gal. You needing 200 lbs. would need 18.2 gals. which would be around 55.00 dollars per tire. This would be around 57% of the volume of the tire. This is perfect in my opinion because it keeps the liquid level well below the fill valve when it is in the top position and won't spray out when trying to check tire pressure.

When I fill tires, I put the valve stem at 11 o'clock. Straight up 12 o'clock to check pressure.

CT

 

[etpm]

Fellow Western Washington member here and I get my tires filled with beet juice at my local tractor tire dealer for 3.00 dollars per gallon. Beet juice weighs about 11 lbs./gal. You needing 200 lbs. would need 18.2 gals. which would be around 55.00 dollars per tire. This would be around 57% of the volume of the tire. This is perfect in my opinion because it keeps the liquid level well below the fill valve when it is in the top position and won't spray out when trying to check tire pressure.

I wish there was somebody close to me that would fill my tires for that price. I would need to drive 1.5 hours to get generic beet juice @ $3.25 per gallon plus $85.00 pumping charge per tire. So $300.00 for 40 gallons total. That's two tires. I can also get it pumped locally by Les Schwab. $7.89 per gallon plus pumping fee. And the Les Schwab fluid weighs 8.3 lbs. per gallon, not the 11 lbs. per gallon that you can get. The closest beet juice place to me, 1.5 hours away, can't tell me what the weight per gallon of the beet juice they sell is, but I imagine it is 11 lbs. per gallon like the stuff you can get. I could also take a ferry to the mainland but the ferry tickets add about 21 bucks and I would spend at least 2 hours waiting in line for the ferry. Living on an island does impart a cost.
Eric

 

[dodge man]

Two problems I see with sugar water. It might not stay in solution. I’m not sure about this.

The second is it might ferment and turn into vodka, then the Russians would invade to get your tractor.

 

[Raul-02]

Since water weighs about 8 pounds per gallon if I was to make a saturated solution of sugar and water I would need to buy 235 pounds of sugar.

you need something to inhibit corrosion