Posted by RBoots on October 26, 2019 at 17:37:33 from (173.241.113.101):
I put new 7.50-18 front tires on the Ford 5000 I bought. New 16.9-38's for the rear are waiting to go on the rear. The front rims on this tractor were loaded, as it was their cultivating tractor. I didn't think those little 7.50-18 tires would weigh so much loaded, but holy smokes! I have a 300 gallon tote I put my chloride in to reuse it, I figured I'd just toss the tire up on top of the tote and pull the valve core instead of pumping it out of them. The top of the tote is about halfway up my chest, not terribly high. However, I've been trying to limit picking up stupid stuff I shouldn't be, due to having wrecked my knees twice, and a shoulder, and fairly constant lower back pain. Breaking my back and working on heavy equipment never did me any favors, and driving truck now probably isn't a doctor's number one solution. I used to be able to stick an arm down each of 2 opposite cylinders of a GM 454 block and lift it out of the hot tank back when I was younger and worked in an engine machine shop, but I wasn't about to just bend over and use my back to pick up this little loaded tire and rim. I sort of half knelt, then flipped it up on my knees, then leaned it against the side of the tote, and sort of flipped it up and over onto the top of it, and drained it out. I looked up what those tires will hold, and apparently those little 7.50-18 tires will hold about 95 pounds of fluid, and I'm guessing the tire and rim weighed 75 anyway, so it wasn't real heavy, just enough you probably shouldn't lift it. The valve cores had been seeping for a while, since the tractor hadn't been used in 15 years, so I figured rim repair was in order once the tires were off. I was right. I forgot to take a before picture of the first rim I fixed, but at least I took a before pic of the second rim I fixed. I suppose I could have welded them, but I enjoy brazing, I find it to be very relaxing, and satisfying when it's all done, so I brazed up the rust holes, drilled new holes for the valve stem, ground it down and smoothed it all up with a flapper wheel, then needle scaled and wire wheeled each rim down to bare metal. Then I painted them, and put the new tires and tubes on the rims. Got the rears off, just getting started on pumping the fluid out of them.
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