Been changing my own tractor tires and tubes since I was a teenager. Rears aren't that bad to do but some fronts can be stubborn. I beat on the bead with the chopper for an hour on a 6.50 - 16 a couple of weeks ago before it broke.
If you have another tractor with a front end loader an easy way to break the bead on a rear tractor tire is to lay it down and use the edge of the loader placed on the tire just outside the rim to break the bead...
BTW, eventhough i've done countless tube changes I still managed to pinch a brand new tube in that front tire... have to admit I cussed a bit during that whole ordeal.
If it is full of fluid I have a pump and hose rigged up that will thread over the valve stem. I attach it with the valve stem at the top of the tire... I then either jack up and rotate the tire til the valve stem is straight down or i just move the whole tractor... Pump just speeds up the draining.. when the fluid gets below the valve stem I insert a very small poly tube into the tire (shrader valve is removed) and suck it out... takes a while with such a small orfice...
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Cockshutt Tractor - by Danny Bowes (Dsl). The son of a very successful Toronto and Brantford, Ontario merchant, and himself quite an entreprenuer, James G. Cockshutt opened a business called the Brantford Plow Works in 1877. In 1882, the business was incorporated to become the Cockshutt Plow Company. Along with quality built equipment, expedious demand and expansion made Cockshutt Plow Works the leader in the tillage tools sector of the farm equipment industry by the 1920's.
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