Remove or don't remove

I am getting ready to unload mower on a mowing job yesterday. I see a piece of wire sticking in the rear tire. I took a chance and removed it. No leak. I was mowing a long ways from home last year with my 231 massy Ferguson. I noticed a nail in a board in my front tire. a leaker for sure. I left the nail in, and I finished my mowing with no problem of the tire going flat. I carry a spare front tire for my JD, but not my MF. Stan

I would remove ,,,before it gets worse.

Just me, but on my front tires I have run them tubeless, and run Slime, and plug all leaks I can see with WalMart plug kits. No more flats, I like it.

There is a tire place that works on farm equipment tires. They will put about two gallons of a blue slime in tires for $30. If you had that in your tire you could pull the wire out and not worry.

They have all my tractor tire business. They put the slime in, they can't complain about it later.
George

Doesn't the slime cause rust in tubeless tires?

We drove a company work truck for two years with a drywall screw in it. Finally wore out the tires and replaced them. We laughed about the tire every day on the way to work. Ellis

Reminds me of when I was a kid, we had a neighbor who was, as carpenters say, about a half bubble off plumb. Or kinda like Paul Revere's ride, a little light in the belfry.

Anyway, we were getting ready to pick corn one morning when the neighbor saw a stick poking out of a wagon tire. He pulled a pair of pliers out of his overall pocket and pulled the stick out. Simultaneously, my dad went, "Pssssssss".

The neighbor let out a string of cuss words, then looked at my dad suspiciously and asked, "Did you do that?" (He knew my dad a little too well).

There obviously was no leak, but my dad and I laughed about it all day.

Our local farm tire store refuses to work on any containing slime.

You need to find a tire place that installs slime. My tire place works on tractor, implement, and coal mining equipment. You have the wrong tire place.

My rims were rusted before they were slimed
Tire place says the slime produces minimal rust
Air has moisture in it. Can't see the big deal with slime. I plan to use it on all tires that won't hold air.

Tired of repairing tires.

when I got my 560 a front tire would go slack if it sit for a week. no big deal because I parked right by the air hose. long story short finally wore the tires out took the tubes out looking for reason it would leak down. I guess letting all the air out unsealed 26 pin holes in the tube. When I put the new tube in the new tires I put half a gallon of slime right back in there

(quoted from post at 12:49:57 05/05/16) Doesn't the slime cause rust in tubeless tires?

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lime seems to be OK, but NOT the Fix-A-Flat inflator/sealer stuff........major rust!!!!!

True tire sealant will not rust rims. The majority of it is water soluble too. So cleaning up a rim or tire that has it in it just requires water. Now the fix-a-flat stuff is corrosive and is just made to inflate a tire so you can get to where you can have the tire repaired.

I have just about all of my front tires mounted tubeless with the tire sealant in it. I use the JD stuff as I can buy it for $125 for five gallons. That is not a bad price.

An example of it working: Neighbor has a JD MFWD loader tractor. The front tires have 80%^ tread. He was having flat tires left and right. Always the tube pinched. The inside of the tire had some small breaks in the lining. They would slowly rub a hole in the tube. He was having them repaired about once each month for the tune of $50 each time. We dismounted the tires and removed the tubes. We put half of a five gallon bucket in each side or 2 1/2 gallon each. That has been four years ago and he has not had to add air since.

I have also done this on older tractors. Customer has a IH 300 utility that he uses to bush hog with. He has Honey Locust trees. His front tires are loaded with thorns. I removed the tubes on the IH 300 rims and used the tire sealant on them 15 years ago. He has to add air every now and then but they have not gone clear flat.

(quoted from post at 22:56:25 05/04/16) I am getting ready to unload mower on a mowing job yesterday. I see a piece of wire sticking in the rear tire. I took a chance and removed it. No leak. I was mowing a long ways from home last year with my 231 massy Ferguson. I noticed a nail in a board in my front tire. a leaker for sure. I left the nail in, and I finished my mowing with no problem of the tire going flat. I carry a spare front tire for my JD, but not my MF. Stan

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The right front on the tractor on the right went flat 3 times just sitting this winter...I took the air tank to it all three times. It is a tubeless tire...started using it to mow last week and tire has not lost any air at all. Now it will be flat in the morning LOL! I carry a 6 hole spare that will fit most of my tractors...sometimes if I have a slow leaker I also carry the air tank. Last time I fixed a tire on this tractor it was a tube tire that was punctured by a weed stem! I had to drive it half a mile to get to the truck, not much weight on it with the 8' Bush Hog on back, but still a dozen holes in the tube when I went to fix it...all from that stupid weed stem. 8 ply tire BTW.