Tractor Tires Going Flat (Pics.)

Do you put Green slime in Rear Tires that have water in them for weight? Thought it would be diluted...? I think this might be the cause....




Bought a little parcel next to us last week.....has on old well on it, and lots of woods...





Its full of water........

The CaCL in mine was green when it leaked out.

That is a good looking well, it appears to be worth protecting with a cover. I do not think that slime will work in fluid ballasted tires. hire a dozer to deal with the thorny locusts.

No to the green slime. That kind of stuff doesn't even work in tires with tubes in them,much less anything liquid filled.

First off be careful with them thorns they are in fact a tad bit on the poison side as in you get one in your hand etc it will become infected from the sap on them.
As for the slime I have yet to have it work in any tire and with fluid in the tire it will NEVER work

That is why I bought and restored my little D-2 Caterpillar.

Gene

Neighbor across the back fence has a Case tracked tractor parked over there. I'll see if he wants to rent it to me from time to time. Thanks for all the advice and info.

Man...Those thorns are enough to give a D-6 Caterpillar a "flat track". Be careful.

I have plenty of them locust trees around here. Need a tractor with loader and steel wheels.

If you have plans to use the well in the future, put a SECURE cover over it IMMEDIATELY, or fill it in tomorrow. Abandoned wells are death traps. A small boy fell in one near here recently. He was standing on the concrete cover placed over the well. It crumbled under his weight and he fell in. Fortunately he survived until rescue, by hanging on to water pipes coming to the top of the well .

Some years ago the town bought an old distressed property near the town center for short money. I found two stone lined dug wells on the property. I filled them in real quick.

Here is a link to a tire sealer that works in fluid filled tires.
tire sealer for fluid filled tires.

Absolutly right on the well, for sure....

This tire sealant looks like the real deal......"seals punctures up to 1/4 inch"

I got to get this stuff!

Thanks for the info!

I don"t think Slime would work at all in liquid filled rear tractor tires and it would be a waste of money to try. Unless you put a huge amount of Slime in there (many gallons), I think the liquid would dilute the Slime too much for it to work.

But Slime works very well for my tractor"s air filled, tube type front tires. I only have to add air about once or twice a year.

We have problems with Hawthorn thorns puncturing our tractor front tires and I actually had my previous set foamed, which brings on another set of problems. But I never had any problems with rear tires being punctured by Hawtorns. However our Hawthorn thorns are probably only about 1/4 as long as the ones pictured. Those are really spooky! I would work really hard to kill and remove all those Hawthorn bushes and hopefully totally burn the downed bushes to get rid of the threat of those awful thorns.

There are lots of Hawthorns on and around my place and I get rid of a few more every year. They are a pain to deal with, literally and figuratively. But I have to feel good about having the Hawthorns we do, rather than those awful ones in the photos--they are truly wicked looking!!!

Would Slime work in rear tires that were air filled? I think it might, at least for a while, but you might need to put several quarts in, to make sure that much inner surface keeps well coated all the time. The Slime is supposed to fill and seal holes as they develop. It works pretty good if you use the machine often to keep the Slime moving and coating the interior surface of the inner tube. If it sits in one position too long, it might start leaking again.

I think if I was dealing with thorns that bad very much, I would probably get a crawler with a dozer blade. I wonder if anything with conventional rubber tires could deal with those thorns very long...Good luck!

These are Black Locust trees. This one is about 3 times larger that any I've ever seen. It's big and tall, and the thorns are much larger than the other ones I've got on the place. When I have time, I pull them up and get a good burn pile going. At my speed I'll have the place cleaned up in about 150 yrs. :lol:

This Ecoseal Tire Sealant looks like the real deal. It can be used in liquid filled tires. Take a look at the web-site Jon Hagen provided the link to above. Industrial Strength stuff.

Had a well identical at the first farm I bought. We were filling it with broken concrete, dirt, and whatever else we had around. It was 2 foot from being filled and my buddy dipped the tire of his Bobcat in the edge. Next thing you know the Bobcat was going down like it was in quicksand. Not funny at first, but once it got caught on the edges we had a good laugh. Took a while to get it out of there. Wouldn't have been too funny if the well was bigger than the bobcat.

BTW. The sealer RRLund listed looks real similar to what the Goodyear place filled mine with. I thought it was Meyers. Stays liquid. Haven't had a flat since.

Rick

(quoted from post at 22:38:28 03/18/12) Had a well identical at the first farm I bought. We were filling it with broken concrete, dirt, and whatever else we had around. It was 2 foot from being filled and my buddy dipped the tire of his Bobcat in the edge. Next thing you know the Bobcat was going down like it was in quicksand. Not funny at first, but once it got caught on the edges we had a good laugh. Took a while to get it out of there. Wouldn't have been too funny if the well was bigger than the bobcat.

BTW. The sealer RRLund listed looks real similar to what the Goodyear place filled mine with. I thought it was Meyers. Stays liquid. Haven't had a flat since.

Rick

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Barnowner where I do some work at asked me to put a closet in her laundry room. House was built in the 1800's, laundry room added a few decades ago. Saw a piece of plywood in the corner with bags and shoes on top. She said it covers a well. I moved the plywood with my foot and was looking down at whay the OP's picture showed. 25 ft deep, half full of water. Now, she had raised a son in the house and had small dogs. I was amazed that nothing ever ended up in that thing considering how flimsy the cover was. First thing I did was fill the well. Regulations say to pump it dry (we got it down to a foot or 2), put bentonite layer, then sand every 10 ft with another layer of bentonite. I used rebar across the opening before I cemented it in case the fill settled.


Found another one in the barn with a flimsy steel cover on it. It's filled now as well. I'd sure get that one in the picture filled ASAP.