It's cheap, I got a Ford 7700 with it in all 4 tires, that is a lot of gallons, it was minus 31 degrees the other day, minus 9 when i had to feed bales - 'a few gallons of wiper fluid' ain't gonna cut it for me!
It's heavier than water. Salt combines with water 7 becomes denser, something like 11 lbs per gallon, vs 8 for water, or 6 for some of the other fluids some here like to try. If you want weight, get some weight, not something lighter than water!
It's non-toxic. You spill a tire full of antifreeze or the cheap washer fluid 'here' and the Minnesota EPA is going to run you one heck of a bill. Sure it runs off all the roads in car accidents but that's ok it's city folk on concrete; but this here is out in a wild, where we need to protect the ducks and beaver and the groundwater, you are looking at a big issue if you try using toxic substances in a place they are not designed for. Aside from my grumbling, I would not be comfortable with that many gallons of toxic antifreeze waiting to spring a leak around my pets & groundwater, seriously. CC will kill the grass, but it is not toxic to the environment.
I've got fluid in 3 tractors, all rears and the one has the fronts as well. I'm considering what to do with the 5000 I got last year, it's aweful light in the rear pulling - and stopping wagons around. My tire people would be real upset with me if they worked on my tires & I has some other fluid in there. Mess up their service truck as they pump my junk out.... They wouldn't be happy, and rightly so.
A lot of the products mentioned aren't really so good for rubber long term; and don't provide a whole lot of protection to someone in the deep freeze like me, need 50/50 mix or more - who can afford that?
If you use the tractor, use the right product. CC or the beet juice. Anything else is junk, make a mess of things, bad deal.
If you are just parading the machine & leaving it sit in the shed, then why use any fluid at all - use air. But if you need the weight, use the proper fluid.
If you look through the archives, this topic is one of my pet peeves. :) As always, to each their own, this is just my opinion - from the cold north. :)
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