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DiyDave
01-11-2008 15:44:08
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Re: Water + in Tractor Tires in reply to Wild Bill Caldwell, 01-11-2008 10:16:04
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I always use methanol in tires as ballast. Reason why follows the end of the free story: I had a John Deere 440 industrial tractor with a loader, and a backhoe subframe(bought in one of my younger, weaker mental moments). I needed a backhoe to clean out the overflow of our farm pond, as some fill dumped carelessly by a contractor had jammed up the overflow pipe at the discharge end of the pipe. As I had a limited budget at the time, I found a Ware backhoe off of a 953 Cat at a bargain basement price. Being handy with a torch, and having a good eyes at the time, was able to adapt one to the other, even though the backhoe far outweighed the loader(I needed an 800 lb counterweight in the bucket, just to keep the front end of the contraption on the ground[intermittently]). Anyway there I was proud as can be driving back up the driveway, having finished the job on time, on budget, on the way to disconnecting the world's largest example of I.P. engineering, when I heard a click, and felt the right rear fender vibrate a little. Naturally, I slowed the wheelie machine down , and looked to see what was caught between the fender and wheel on the right side, as I heard the click, and felt the vibration again. Didn't see anything till the tire with the split sidewall and rapidly prolapsing innertube hit the fender for the third and final time. As I saw what was going to inevitably going to happen, I closed my eyes, and uttered a few choice words, and as about 80 gallons of methanol hit me in the face, head and shoulder, I thought, hey this sure tastes better than calcium chloride!
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