Re: Non-corrosive alternatives to calcium cloride

Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 31, 2004 at 15:33:38 from (209.226.106.39):

In Reply to: Non-corrosive alternatives to calcium cloride in t posted by Dave in CT on May 30, 2004 at 23:46:12:

Dave: One thing I discovered about 35 years ago is liquid weight is not very practical. It really only gives you a lot of benefit on hard ground or roadways. In a field situation cast weights or more rubber on the ground are much more beneficial. You also cut down on soil compaction.

I was at a tire shop last week, and this guy does massive amounts of tractor tires. He tells me that less than 5% of new tractors are having liquid added. You think about this, the amount of rubber one of those 300 hp articulated 8 tire jobies have on the ground compared to your Farmall H. His ground bearing pounds per square inch is much less than your H. He can probably also pull twice the cultivator or disk, per pound of tractor you can. Rubber on the ground is the way to go.

Now if you are restoring a collector tractor to look at you don't need liquid weight. If you are tractor pulling on hard tracks, yes by all means liquid is the way to go. If you are pulling a lot of heavy loads on hard roads, liquid is the way to go.

I farmed with a 100 hp Deere, 1066, 656, 560, 300 and an assortment of little off set Farmalls. The only tractor with wheel weights or liquid was 300. It had both, why, it pulled heavy silage wagons on hard roads. The others all had big rubber.

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