Tire repair contest!

notjustair · Mar 16, 2015

What is the most times you have patched a tube or tire?

I patched the tube on the mixer grinder yesterday and added patch #14. It's one of those made in the USA tubes so I am keeping it! That doesn't count the five patches on the inside of the tire, seeing as it was tubeless to start with.

In all fairness, that tire started on the moco so that explains the flats. I retired her to the grinder and bought airplane tires for the moco. She's still getting flats on the grinder!

jon f mn · Mar 16, 2015

I have a drive tire on my truck right now eith 7 plugs in it. Still goin strong tho.

Super Steve · Mar 16, 2015

grandpa had a front tire on his loader that was leaking "again" so I took it off to patch the tube "again". There was 17 patches on that tube

Donald Lehman · Mar 16, 2015

Ohhhhhhhh, you haven't learned the meaning of tire repair and pinched tubes until you have attempted to change one of the old 5.00x 17 Trellberg rear dirt bike tires with about three rimlocks on the danged rim!!!

Pop used to have so many patches on tractor tubes, we would actually cut away part of a new patch to fit around old patches.

Goose · Mar 16, 2015

About 25 years ago, I spent a couple of years as an outside salesman for a private label auto parts company. It was a situation that paid the bills for a couple of years till I got a better offer.

However, Blackjack tire plugs were a big seller of ours. When the company president wanted to demonstrate a Blackjack plug, he'd take an awl, poke a hole in a tire on his conversion van, and put a plug in it. One day he blew out a tire for real. The guy that replaced it liked to have freaked out. The tire that blew had something like 14 plugs in it.

(The plugs had nothing to do with the blowout).

Dachshund · Mar 16, 2015

I have a photo somewhere on my computer....I took a tire off to patch the tube, and there were 23-24 already there...

casecollectorsc · Mar 16, 2015

Had a guy here when he was younger would bet a case of beer that he could dismount a tire with just a pair of pliers. He is a big man and would break the bead by stomping on it with the heel of his boot. Get that done and use the pliers to get the tire off the rim. Won a lot of beer that way.

RBoots · Mar 16, 2015

24 patches on the tube on the front tire of our Super 77 Oliver. Used it last fall the mow down 50 acres of CRP ground that we will be farming this year, it had knee high thornapple trees and autumn olive bushes sprouted all over it. Kept happening, no reason to ruin a new tube. All but one that one front tire are originals, they were too hard to be punctured by the thorns, but the one front was a new tire, and very soft rubber.

Ross

RGMartin · Mar 16, 2015

I dismounted an Armstrong 18.4R34 last year that had a 2x4" or bigger patch corresponding to nearly every lug( I bought it that way, and ran it for 2+ years like that). It seems the lugs pulled holes in the tire. Shame too, it was in good shape and pulled well.

60 acre hillside · Mar 16, 2015

I bought a WC Allis from a fellow who was the vehicle mechanic at a pallet manufacturing plant, The old tube in the WC had over 100 patches. In some way he took the old tube from one of the forklifts home with him and used if for himself

504 · Mar 16, 2015

I was in the seventh grade when I got the call to go to the gas station and go to work(boss had gone to the hospital with two weeks of school left). He had repaired a rear tire on an 8-N twice and never found the leak. After it was flat the next day, after I had it apart three times, I told the farmer either buy a new tube or take it somewhere else. Since then I have seen several leak around the brass and the rubber of the stem.

Tire repair contest!

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