liquid ballast 16.9x28 tires?????

Approximately how much fluid would be in a 16.9x28 rear tire?????

Bryan Smith's web site      tire chart           calcium chloride would be a little heavier.Hope this helps.

Start saving money to buy a new pair of rims now. Putting corssive liquid in tire is a garunteed way to rust out rims.

yes beat to death. Even if you DON'T care for rims properly, the lifespan seems to be about 40 years. That's about when we got several of his tractors with fluid in them. ABout the last 5 years the rims have been going to pieces. If they leaked, he never washed them. He just had the tire repaired.

If you never have a leak, no problem.  I use CaCl in my tires, but I change valve cores every three or four years.  The newer cores tend to leak a lot quicker than the older ones.

Rusted rims sounds scary but all the times I have weighed my options on my IH tractors its still cheaper to buy new rims and tubes when the go bad than it is to buy cast iron weights to furnish the same amount of weight. Only problem is the tubes you get now days. The stems on them wont take the chloride like the old ones will. 

There are three liquid weight options and steel weights. Steel weights can be the hardest to install, not all of us can lift that chunk of steel 1000 to 2000 pounds.

Calcium Chloride has been used for wheel weighting for the longest period of time. It is the heaviest of the current options and the most corrosive. My MF-135 had it in the rears to help hold them on the ground with an excessively large front loader. One day while on the road hauling my three point back hoe to a welding shop about 15 miles from the farm the right rear tire split a couple inches of inside sidewall. Sprayed me and the tractor with that corrosive solution. The tractor rusted instantly even though the paint was good. My jeans stood on their own when I took them off that evening. I won't use Calcium Chloride for wheel weights again.

One commercial alternative that isn't corrosive is beet juice. It isn't as heavy as CC and (last I looked) is significantly more expensive than CC. But if a tire splits in the field it won't kill crop or grass like CC does.

At less weight, less cost, and no corrosion, windshield washer solution (winter grade) or RV water system antifreeze have been used. Requires acquiring the installation tools because a tire contractor won't carry or support it.

Gerald J.

Fermented corn juice?

I have wondered why a person couldn't use liquid fertilizer, like the low salt in furrow formulas. The 6-24-6 I use inst corrosive. I think it weighs over 10 LB/GAL and as far as I know wont freeze. Have used it to winterize sprayers before if I have any left.