Water in tires??

Ok so I have a little 29hp 4x4 tractor and a 5ft disk.
The tractor barely pulls the disk due to tires spinning

Would filling the rear tires with water help me to pull the disk?
What are the pros and cons or filling tires with water!?
Thank

Liquid in the tires will make a huge difference.However,dont use plain water unless you live in Florida,Southern tX,AZ.....Someplace that NEVER freezes. Use Calcium Chloride or rimgard(beet juice). The down side is calcium is corocive if you get a leak.It it will rust the rims,but it will take years.No leaks,no problems. Otherwise no problems.I run calcium in my tillage tractors.Wouldn't farm without it.

Just water, well they freeze up solid here for about 1/2 the year, not a good thing!

Using the calcium chloride, it makes a world of difference, if you ever have a loader on the tractor it makes it a whole now powerful machine!

The salt content can cause rust if you aren't into maintaining things, but the calcium chloride is heavier than just water, it does the job. Other concoctions people substitute like windshield fluid or old antifreeze are toxic to critters and groundwater when they leak, and are lighter than water so they don't do as good a job at being dead weight.

Beet pulp solution is heavy and non toxic and non rust, but it does cost a little bit more.

Wheel weights can work well too, cost some.

Hanging some weight on the 3pt hitch also works, but it often is in the way and combersone, a person gets tired of dealing with that.

I've driven tractors since I was 7 years old here on the farm, all sizes, the most scared I've ever been on a tractor is when I took my new to me compact loader tractor down my driveway hill and an Emory wagon behind pushed me in the dew to the bottom, no control. I parked that thing until the coop came out and got the rear tires filled with calcium chloride solution, and it has been my most handy little machine for 15 years now, whole different tractor than it was before.

Paul

Spins both, rear and front tires? What tread on the tires? What model of tractor?

Fluid will help a lot. Tractors used to have a drawbar that you could adjust by flipping it over to a high or low position. If yours still does if you pull down from a higher setting this helps a lot too.

Many people use windshield washer solution.

The local tire shop uses alcohol of some sort.

People use used antifreeze around here-go to your local service garage.

If the tires are tubeless, I would go with the iron for weight. If tubed then the chloride.

R3 Turf Tires do not have the traction that R1, R1W, R2 and R4 tires have.

Are there any charts that compare the weights of common liquid ballasts like:
straight water;
5 Lb/Gallon calcium chloride solution;
beet juice;
windshield washer fluid (methanol/water solution?);
and 50/50 antifreeze?

If not, are there any charts that show how many pounds of ballast each would add to an 18.4-38 tire with a 75 percent fill?

RV antifreeze seems popular too. Pretty cheap, not as heavy as water or other solutions...but WHEN you get a leak doesn't seem to ruin the grass. I've used it, and windshield washer fluid too.

Rim Guard (beet juice) is probably the best around, but it's expensive. Sodium chloride is good too, but it'll rust out a rim given enough time (years).

I found a chart online for the weight of various tire fill fluids and tire capacities when I filled mine...can't find it right now.

There is a chart that shows water and different concentrations of calcium

It probably came with R4 Industrials. About as useless as R3 Turfs as mine proved to be. Get some F1 Bar lugs and add some weight like others mentioned. Your local "tires for everything" tire shop can recommend something available that works.

Go to a old-scrap tractor dealer and dig through his junk piles. I made a set of weights for my Branson 2400 out of an old pair of sets for a JD and MF, making about 150#/wheel to get a softer ride....along with a bucket suspension seat. Since I was after a softer ride I did replace the 6 ply 12x16.5 R4s with a pair of 4 ply 33x12.5x16.5 R3s. That combination will pull a 8x7 ?" rolled spike harrow at good speed. But a disc? Lots of variables there with size and weight and soil.

What is the price on beet juice and why is it so expensive, I wonder?