tractor tires
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Cargo Master
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From: southwest pa
yea, im definately looking at it from mostly a financial pov. i called a tire shop that is pretty far out in the sticks. i called a few tractor supply shops and no one had anything
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A few years ago when my club went to Disney Oklahoma to play in the rocks, I took a set of 39 inch tall tractor tires and a set of 38.5 swampers- The tractor tires would run circles around the swampers!!! Now it might have just been the particular way my rig was set up that made the tractor tires work so well, but who knows??? My current rig under construction has 44 inch ag tires and I have every intention of using them when playing on rocks. While I'm shure that a tire like a BFGKrawler would do better than ag tires in rocks, my point is that tractor tires DO work pretty good in the rocks too!! You could try Nebraske Tire, thats where I got mine for a good price, but I picked mine up, so I bet shipping could be a cost issue.
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From: iowa
Originally Posted by jfinlen
You fill the tire with water using a special adaptor for water hoses. It would kill handling all together, but if you needed more weight right at the axle, it could fill the bill..
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From: Coutts Canada
On the farm we have that calcuim chloride in almost everything we can (we got some pretty nasty hills we famr on), and our combine has the back tires filled (about a 42"x15 tire on a 24" rim) completely, anyway a wheel bearing decided it had enough one day going up a hill and the right rear wheel came off, anyway me and my dad (my dad is about 300lbs, and can dead lift about 400lbs, very strong guy, i'm no slouch either) could barely lift the tire, we acutally had to dig a small hole so we could get a grip on the tire, up so we could roll it over to the combine to put a new bearing and stuff in the hub.
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From: Spokane, WA
Some of the guys at Pirate are running water in their tires and have said it works fine. My concern is that it's a LOT of stress on the knuckles and bearings to add all that weight. If you were crawling I don't think it would be a big deal but if you get any kind of speed I think it may be pretty tough on parts. Probably fun for crushing cars though and you don't have to use a tube.
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From: Coutts Canada
You still need a tube even if its just water, as this will rust the rim out fast (you should see the valve stems on some of our old tractor/combine tubes that come from a bad tire)
I think a good tread that would be good in the rocks would be the tire with the curve lugs instead of angled lugs, this way there would be more bite and less slipping of the tire.
I think a good tread that would be good in the rocks would be the tire with the curve lugs instead of angled lugs, this way there would be more bite and less slipping of the tire.
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From: central ohio
i have a sand-loaded tire that i use for winter ballast, thought it would be neat to do it to demo-derby cars but i havent got the back for that anymore, its bad enough moving the 217 pnd sand-filled spare. id like to watch someone try to steal it though!
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From: Reed Point, MT
Originally Posted by monsterbaby
well kinda, they will corrod with calcium chloride that stuff is actually pretty corrosive even on alum
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From: Centerville, Iowa
God I hate it. I'm moving to freakin Wyoming or something, anywhere they don't throw ANY Chloride on the roads. My truck has to suffer this? Pfft....
Wish I could like sandblast the bottom of my truck nice and clean, then just hit everything with painballs filled with POR15 =)
Wish I could like sandblast the bottom of my truck nice and clean, then just hit everything with painballs filled with POR15 =)
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From: Coutts Canada
Thats why there's such a thing as the ol' winter beater, i haven't be able to drive my flareside for the past 3 winters, well 2 of those it was up on jackstands, but still i drove an old 500 dollar beater in the winter, after all if its going to get rusted, why not drive something thats already rusted out?
My dad has a set of alloy wheels that he took of a chev astro van that we hit a deer with, and he kept the wheels he bought for it, anyway they got stacked in the tire pile behind the shop (wind blows though their pretty good, so big drift'e, and the rain collect their as well in a puddle if its deep enough), and they got left there for a bout a year or so and you wouldn't believe the corrsion, it took about an hour a wheel with an air die grinder with a wire wheel to clean them up.
My dad has a set of alloy wheels that he took of a chev astro van that we hit a deer with, and he kept the wheels he bought for it, anyway they got stacked in the tire pile behind the shop (wind blows though their pretty good, so big drift'e, and the rain collect their as well in a puddle if its deep enough), and they got left there for a bout a year or so and you wouldn't believe the corrsion, it took about an hour a wheel with an air die grinder with a wire wheel to clean them up.
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From: iowa
[QUOTE=Saurian]God I hate it. I'm moving to freakin Wyoming or something, anywhere they don't throw ANY Chloride on the roads. My truck has to suffer this? Pfft....QUOTE]
thats right in wyoming they don't use Chloride on the roads they don't even plow them they just let the wind blow the snow around until it wears out.
thats right in wyoming they don't use Chloride on the roads they don't even plow them they just let the wind blow the snow around until it wears out.