A non-corrosive tire fluid?

The problem with chloride started when folks began low hour per year, use of older tractors. With that tires were on tractors 20 years and longer. Most of the leaks doing damage to rims have been caused by one type of leak, that being valve stem leak. The cure for this is plain good maintainence. If you are in this last catergory, about every 5-7 years, park the tractor with valve stem at top. Jack the tractor to take weight off tire. Remove and replace the center screw in stem, then re inflate the tire.

Another maintainence item done by farmers was in the event of a tire puncture, you cleaned the rim up and repainted it before re installing. Plain and simple guys, with good maintainence chloride will never destroy rims. I know of tractors over 50 years old original rims and have had chloride since new.

Most rim rust outs have been caused by tractors going for years with leaky valve stems. Small pin holes in tubes very quickly become flat tires.

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Beet juice may not be corrosive, but I guarantee ya it will sterilize any ground it sets on for anywhere from 7 to 10 years.

Been there and done that with silagein’ sugar beet tops.

Allan

Anti-freeze poisoning of dogs is "treatable" within 24hrs of ingestion, but expensive $400+. Usually you don't know yer dogs been anti-freezed until its too late for treatment and its a very agonizing and dis-hearting death to those that love their dog.

While Wal-Mart sells pre-mixed windshield washer by the gallon, (cheap, less than $1/gal)), clerks kinda look at you funny when you roll-up with 50 juggs of wiper-fluid.

MORE BETTER is "Rim-Gard", a sugerbeet pulp based ballast solution. Non-corrosive, non-poisonous, VERY-HEAVY non-freezeable ballast additive. Talk to yer AG-Tire dealer/installer..... ....Dell

Tim in NY

Alcohol keeps the water from freezing, but it makes the water less dense therefore lighter per gallon so your overall ballast weight is less.

Unfortunatly, Cacl is extremely corrosive (after all it is concentrated salt water) and if it leaks it eats your rims. The trick is to not have any leaks.

Pluses & minuses for each, you make your choices and decide which is best for you.

• Chart with ballast weights for water and water with cacl

I've used propylene glycol (RV pink anti-freeze) in tires to resolve a tire balance problem. Works good as it won't attack rubber nor steel and safe as they also use PG as a food preservitive.

Some auto anti-freeze is now PG based so the cheap auto parts houses carry it.

T_Bone

I'm going to put windshield washer fluid in the tires on my Kubota L3010 instead of the CaCl solution. It will cost about $150 for the solution and not counting the labor to do it. Yeah, I could gain a few more pounds by going with the CaCl solution, but I don't want the corrosive solution in that tractor (my AC 175 already has the CaCl solution, and no leaks yet!).
Regular antifreeze solution could be kinda cashy, depending on the size of the tires.

Some folks only want wheel weights and won't mess with fluid in the tires. Weights can be a real pain to remove, so there's no perfect solution to getting more weight on the tractor or in the tires.