in the latest issue of Farm Show magazine...

Anonymous-0 · Oct 2, 2011

is a 1-2 paragraph story, about a farmer, who needs a set of turf tires. Gist of the story is, that he leaves his tractor tires on the rim, deflates them, and takes a truck tire, a little bigger than the tractor tire, and cuts the beads, and inner 1/4 or so of the sidewalls, off, slips this over the deflated tire, inflates, and viola, as they say, in france, turf tires! I have a set of oddball tires, on a mower, that I would like to not buy new, due to the price. I was wondering if there is a chart or list, that shows the rolling diameters, un-mounted, of lawn and garden tractor tires, in the range of say, 20" to maybe 25". I will try google, but it's kinda hard to word a search term!

oldironman · Oct 2, 2011

I think that deta red did that to a IH farmall. that I saw in a picture of his.

Jim in Ma. · Oct 2, 2011

I remember dad doing that on an old rack dump truck that never left the farm.
I also remember the Fall many years ago, He ordered a set of "retread" snow tirers. We put them on and parked the truck in the open shead for a week or two. The floor in there had been wet and a little muddy. One chilly morning he went out to use the pickup, drove ont into the yard and looked back to see the two treads laied out on the floor. Those back tirers looked just as smooth as an innertube.
Some people say, the good old days. I sure don't miss them.

keh · Oct 2, 2011

Story from FIL: During the Depression, they might end up with a tire with good tread but an unrepairable hole. They would slip it over a tire that held air but was slick. They would poke holes in the sidewall above the bead and run wire through it to fasten the tire with tread to the slick tire, I guess wrapping the wire around the A model or T model rim. Sometines the outer tire would jump off at speed and run alongside the car briefly.

KEH

Anonymous-0 · Oct 2, 2011

I had a 20' spreader tire blow out. I couldn't get a truck tire onto the rim and no money. So I welded tabs from the spreader wheel across to a truck wheel and tire (that was aired up). Found out years later I could have blown myself up.

36 Coupe · Oct 2, 2011

Many years ago a friend opened the gate to the hay field so I could drive the tractor and spreader through.We had loaded the spreader pretty heavy.When the 20 inch tire was right beside him it blew out.Never saw a fellow jump so high.

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