new tractor w/ 10 hrs-1st flat tire!

[pdubdo]

Granted, I'm going brush hogging along overgrown honey locust patches, but really! So do you guys use foam fill? Green slime? Other tricks?

 

[ram]

I run 14ply tires and still get flats.

 

[1982vett]

Forgive my snickering.....but irony does that sometimes. A few years ago, less than 30 minutes on a $12,000 overhaul, the high side ac line blew on one of mine. Some times their is no escaping the sucker punches.

I run water in my rears....helps get me back to the house or to the tire shop. Got be diligent not to run over those shredded thorns.

 

[Nesikep]

Crawler tractors!

 

[Caustic Burno]

Forgive my snickering.....but irony does that sometimes. A few years ago, less than 30 minutes on a $12,000 overhaul, the high side ac line blew on one of mine. Some times their is no escaping the sucker punches.

I run water in my rears....helps get me back to the house or to the tire shop. Got be diligent not to run over those shredded thorns.

8 point shed will punch a hole you won't make it back in time.
Nothing I would rather do than walk to the house from the back pasture.
Load compressors impacts and jacks to go change a tire absolutely love it.

 

[Angus Cowman]

I had a set of foam filled tires I put on when brushhogging rough stuff
Also brushhogging locust will just make them spread you are better off spraying them

 

[Brute 23]

I foam fill the fronts and slime the rears.

 

[Nesikep]

I don't know if slime will do it with the holes you'll get.. they may make it home (with 5 gallons in each tire), but they'll probably still leak.. just slower.

I slimed my trailer tires because I knew they were susceptible to rocks going through the tread and I was hauling cattle.. I passed a rock slide, and less than a mile after it I had a flat with smoke coming off it.. slime didn't do squat, and it does even less on sidewalls.

 

[wacocowboy]

I get airplane tires for the front they work pretty good I have a ton of mesquite around here. The backs I just roll with the punches.

 

[C-Ranch]

It seems like a seldom if ever get a flat when farming normal ground "BUT" as soon as I hook up the brush cutter it never fails that I get a flat tire. 95% of the time its on one of the front tires, but I have pushed a stick through a rear before. None of my current tractors have anything in them, but my last tractor I had foam but in the front tires after the 3rd flat in two weeks. Funny thing is it cost me $300 per tire to have them filled with foam, and a month later the transmission froze up (2nd time). I sent the tractor down range and licked my wounds.

Now, I stay out of the real nasty stuff and stay where I have already taken off the worst parts so it's easy to maintain with no flats. As for the rest I hire a guy who has metal tracks and he just tears up what I need done. I figure it's it's better to pay a little $$$ versus trashing my equipment and dealing with the flat tires and occasional breakdowns that always seem to occur when trying to knock down rough stuff.

 

[pdubdo]

Just had my 2nd flat-other front tire. I'm brush-hogging a 20 year over-grown fence line now. I'm starting to think about C-Ranch's way of doing things. Instead of pushing my tractor to it's limits maybe I should hire out the rough stuff. Thanks for all the comments

 

[C-Ranch]

It also free you up to do other things so in the end I am able to do a few other tasks while someone else abuses their equipment.

 

[bigbull338]

we put the pink tire sealant in all of our tractors and 4 wheeler.and take works for us.