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Absolutely!!!! How many new tractors have been sold with tube type tires in the last twenty years? Not many. How many are getting the tires loaded before delivery? A lot. How many of those are getting broken down and tubes added before adding the calcium? Very few. 6-8 years ago I broke down a twelve year old loaded tire with no tube to fix a leak due to a puncture. The paint was gone inside, and the steel was gray instead of shiny. There was no evidence of corrosion. The simple explanation is that rusting is a chemical reaction. It is classified as oxidation. In order for oxidation to take place there has to be oxygen present because it is consumed. If you need to have a rim get rusted out you need to add new air to it regularly.
 
Common practice these days on small tractors using Rim Guard but a mess when time to change/repair.

Dean
 
Loaded something over 600 sets last year on new tractors , with mixture 33% methanol and the rest water.
 
Yes.

Tho tubeless tractors tend to be radial tires, and they lose their better traction if you fill them with liquid. So it’s become more common to hang expensive iron on the tractors and skip the fluid. Makes sense on the front ends, the rear wheels it becomes a bit of a struggle to put heavy inner and outer weights on dualed up machine.

Paul
 
When I bought my big tractor I needed a lot of ballast quickly. I wanted iron weight, but couldn't get it. I had 100 gallons of some kind of beet juice put in each of four tires, for 4000 pounds total ballast. Two of the tires have tubes, two don't.

Tire man showed me [picture] that there is some kind of liquid ballast which turns to sludge in a tire.
 
I used to work for a tire company years ago.All that there was back then was calcium chloride.I loaded that in tubeless and tube type tires without problems.The only time wheels started to rust is when there was a leak and that was usually from a leaky air water valve.Those need to be replaced every so often as that exposed metal will rust.
 
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