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To get the fluid out, we like to pull the core out of the stem, and press down on the tire with the front end loader. This is easy to break tires down, and you don't have to watch fluid come out all day.

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I was at a tire shop last week, and this guy does massive amounts of tractor tires. He tells me that less than 5% of new tractors are having liquid added. You think about this, the amount of rubber one of those 300 hp articulated 8 tire jobies have on the ground compared to your Farmall H. His ground bearing pounds per square inch is much less than your H. He can probably also pull twice the cultivator or disk, per pound of tractor you can. Rubber on the ground is the way to go.

Now if you are restoring a collector tractor to look at you don't need liquid weight. If you are tractor pulling on hard tracks, yes by all means liquid is the way to go. If you are pulling a lot of heavy loads on hard roads, liquid is the way to go.

I farmed with a 100 hp Deere, 1066, 656, 560, 300 and an assortment of little off set Farmalls. The only tractor with wheel weights or liquid was 300. It had both, why, it pulled heavy silage wagons on hard roads. The others all had big rubber.

Your comments bring to light another issue. We season our firewood at the edge of our lawn (most sunlight) so I'm driving the tractor on the lawn to get to it. If possible, I think something closer to a turf tire might meet our needs better. Can one put turf tires on an H? What's involved - just getting wider rims? How wide a rim for how wide a tire? Thanks again.

15.5x38 tire would work quite well but try and find a rim for it that will fit the H. Will not be easy unless you find a set of 300 or newer wheels. I thought of putting turf tires on my tractor for plowing snow with chains and mowing grass without. I have been advised I will not get the kind of traction plowing snow that I currently get from ag tires. I thought with turf tires problem with cross chains in tread would go away. A friend suggested it does but you still don't get the traction you would from ag tires.

For your situation, probably not a better solution than what you have used in past. You put new tubes in your tires, refill with chloride and change the screw in portion of valve stem every 8 years, before it starts leaking, chloride will never reach rims anyhow.

If that A doesn't have inner tubes, that rim would've rusted out years ago. Frankly, for what little fluid you can get in a Farmall A tire, it'd be worth it to just replace it with cast iron.

Loaded tires on an A is still a waste of time. It's almost worth it on an H, though.

Well I wish you could have seen the paraphenilla they showed up with to clean up that antifreeze. They spent 2 hours trying to remove stains from the asphalt. Of course the antifreeze had allready soaked in. At one point I got a bit annoyed with them, I suggested the road grader sitting on the side of road with 3' shoulders, and on a blind curve at that, was indeed a far greater menace to society than all the antifreeze that had soaked into the soil before they arrived anyhow. What I didn't know was this company had been fined for allowing a pail of oil to spill. Just the wrong person saw it.

By the way the grader sat there for three hours, they hadn't brought anything to fix it with. That is how paranoid persons who have been fined can become.