Posted by MarkB_MI on December 09, 2019 at 04:26:25 from (174.230.1.241):
In Reply to: Rear tire ballast? posted by Geo-TH,In on December 08, 2019 at 13:10:21:
Hey George, I suspect adding ballast to your tires will improve the ride a bit, but it will also increase your soil compaction. Which is one reason I don't use my tractor for mowing. (The main reason is my ZTR can mow just as fast and I don't have to fool around with mounting my flail mower.) But I'm a big fan of tire ballast, even though I know it has a lot of drawbacks. Ballasted tires lower the tractor's center of gravity, which is no small thing on our hilly property. Note that ballasting the front tires will help to lower the CG even more than just ballasting the rears.
When you say "fluid", do you mean windshield washer fluid? Rimguard will be more than two bucks a gallon, I think. FWIW, I have washer fluid in my rear tires, one front has Rimguard and the other still has CaCl. Washer fluid is economical, although not as heavy as the other two. Tire shops seem to like washer fluid because it's not as messy as Rimguard.
I know there are folks here who ballast their own tires but I've never done it myself. Having it done would be well worth the expense and aggravation of taking it to the tire shop, IMO. To do yourself, you'll need a garden hose adapter and a drum or other container you can elevate several feet so you can use gravity to fill your tires.
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