Flat tires...

Tom in Mo. · Jan 14, 2019

... are a pain in the butt. There is no telling how many hundreds of tires I've changed and I am not in that business. I did a quick count of tires here on the place; cars, trucks, tractors and came up with 76 tires on machinery touching the ground, not including spares. Good grief!

Jegs · Jan 14, 2019

Interesting, sorry to hear about the flat, I just fixed a flat on the farm pickup, my current tire index is only 34!

Tony in SD · Jan 14, 2019

I?ve always made sure I had good tires on everything. That stopped when I bought an RV. I?ve changed so many tires on the RV that I carry blocks, jack,torque wrench, traffic cones and air compressor. Just can?t get
good tires on my RV. I know, I?ve been told to go up a size and go with a low profile semi trailer tire......but the axle spacing is too close to do that.

Leroy · Jan 14, 2019

That is a low number. Back several years ago I think my count was around 200+. That many on just the wagons and trailers, nothing else. 3 2 wheel trailers, 3 4 wheel trailers 7 hopper wagons and 5 flat bed wagons. If I added correctly that is 68 tires. Plus all the tractors & other machinery, cars and trucks. 5 tractors equal 26 tires. Not counting the garden-lawn tractors.

dzc3 · Jan 14, 2019

Tony could you change rims and go with a super single?

fixerupper · Jan 14, 2019

Well, lessee, there are 50 tires in the Morton shed, 30 tires in the old wooden machine shed, 30 tires in the barn, four in the shop, and 14 on various implements outside. That makes, um, 128. No, wait, there’s the 62 Rambler, maybe 130 total. Oops, there’s the van and the Colorado. Now it’s 138. That’s not counting about 20 on the tire rack in the bus barn. Oh yes, there’s a tractor and a wagon i forgot about in the bus barn too. (Sigh)

fixerupper · Jan 14, 2019

(quoted from post at 18:12:12 01/14/19) I?ve always made sure I had good tires on everything. That stopped when I bought an RV. I?ve changed so many tires on the RV that I carry blocks, jack,torque wrench, traffic cones and air compressor. Just can?t get
good tires on my RV. I know, I?ve been told to go up a size and go with a low profile semi trailer tire......but the axle spacing is too close to do that.

It’s too bad you can’t go to a lo pro semi tire. On the harvest the combine trailers had 17.5’s and we were always throwing treads off of those suckers. Then we changed hubs and put 22.5 low pros
On them. It greatly reduced the hours we spent along the road changing tires. Changing tires along the side of I80 in Wyoming is downright scary.

olgentdc · Jan 14, 2019

you aint got much , LOL i have twice the trouble , I f someone
took my battery charger and air compressor i just as well stay in
the house , aint gonna get much done without either one

Tony in SD · Jan 15, 2019

I have thought about that but the RV is getting to the age I?m thinking of just getting rid of it.

showcrop · Jan 15, 2019

I wish that I had changed a few tires before they doubled in price, but then we didn't know that they were going to. I have heard guys say at auctions that they bought something that was not in very good shape primarily for the tires.

Determined · Jan 15, 2019

Scares a person just to think about it.

Off the top of my head I count 264 tires and if I were to look out the window once daylight comes around I am sure there are a few more I have missed.

Tire machine in the shop for the smaller stuff, breaking hammer and bars for the large ones.

Only ones I don't do myself but sort of wish I did were on my wheel loader, service call to mount 4 used ones was over $1100.00.

P.S. forgot about the auger and the dump truck 276.

Geo-TH,In · Jan 15, 2019

I have about the same number.
I don't mind paying Tire Barn to replace and maintain the tires
on cars, trailers, and truck. Costs me $12.50/tire for lifetime
rotation, balancing and road hazard. Been doing business with
Tire Barn for many years. Manager knows me and gives me a price
break on new tires, so in reality my road hazard is free.
I feel safety if more important than a few bucks. Blow a tire
at 75 mph on interstate could be fatal.
I don't mind fixing tires on tractors and low speed things that
aren't used on highway. When it comes safety and getting
stranded on vacation, I'll pay a little extra.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jan 15, 2019

Well right now there are 18 tractors here along with 19 wagons and all the other implements. Well over 200 tires here. We finally bought our own tire machine as my back was getting tired of doing them on the floor with tire irons. The thing that bothers me the most is that many 40 year old tires are in better shape than some of the 3-7 year old tires. We do our own rear tractor tires as well. The local tire shop is getting very pricey on service calls. Not that I blame them with the cost of a service truck and a driver. I am even thinking about getting a hyd. bead breaker for rear tractor tires. Tom

Destroked 450 · Jan 15, 2019

Between 110 and 125 here, can't think of them all and not going to go count.
Occasional wagon or trailer flat, baler tire was flat this spring but aired it up and ran all season.
Biggest tire issue I've have is 7 flats on a set of 18.4-30 Michelins in the past 3 years, tires are 7 years old, had them off this fall, added a set of liners and 20 3x9 patches on the side walls, junkiest tires I've ever owned.

PJH · Jan 15, 2019

I've got one right now that I'm dreading. It's an airplane tire, single front, on my feed tractor. It has a slow leak, so I've been airing it up each time I use it. I think it has a 12" rim - it is the kind that the rim halves unbolt and pull apart from the middle. I put a new tire on it about a year ago and the tire shop could not remove the old tire. I cut it off with a Sawzall for them. I hope this new one comes off easier. It has an axle like a bicycle wheel, only larger, of course. Between the mud/manure and the nasty axle grease, it's not gonna be a pleasurable task. First flat I've had with the airplane front tires.

caterpillar guy · Jan 15, 2019

I would rather have the bolt together wheel than a one piece wheel to do an airplane tire on.
Flat tires in a lot of cases is due to low inflation levels on road tires. I had a guy that would only put 75-90 PSI in a 10.00- 20 tire. He always was having flat tires on combine trailers on The harvest moves. I told him if he would put 110 in them they would not have the problems. Soft tires create heat which in turn causes them to fail. Any larger road tires like the 20,22.5 24.5 and such I keep 110 in and not have problems. My 255/70-22.5 call for 120 and I put it in them.

showcrop · Jan 16, 2019

(quoted from post at 18:30:23 01/15/19) I would rather have the bolt together wheel than a one piece wheel to do an airplane tire on.
Flat tires in a lot of cases is due to low inflation levels on road tires. I had a guy that would only put 75-90 PSI in a 10.00- 20 tire. He always was having flat tires on combine trailers on The harvest moves. I told him if he would put 110 in them they would not have the problems. Soft tires create heat which in turn causes them to fail. Any larger road tires like the 20,22.5 24.5 and such I keep 110 in and not have problems. My 255/70-22.5 call for 120 and I put it in them.

In the tire industry a tire failure due to significant under inflation is classified as "run flat"

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