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AC WD45 
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 at 9:11pm |
Where can I get the adapter to load tires with water from a garden hose? Im looking add about 500lbs of free weight for pulling. also doesanyonte have a liquidballast chart? i dont want to add too much. the plan is to drain it out at the end of the season to prevent freezing. i wont be using the tractor in the winter because i live in a trailer park an they have snowplows already
Edited by AC WD45 - 25 Aug 2012 at 10:04pm
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MNLonnie
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 at 9:24pm |
I don't know if this is what you are looking for or not?
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 at 9:25pm |
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got mine from napa here in marshal texas.any napa store should carry them...
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 at 9:33pm |
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I took a supply to a clothes washer and cut 1 end off and slid the hose over the valve stem and clamped it fast. Connect the other end to the hose and go for it. If in loading the tires with CALC I connect the hose to a small sump pump. LOL Bob
Edited by Chalmersbob - 25 Aug 2012 at 9:34pm
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 at 9:50pm |
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got mine at Tractor Supply
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AC WD45
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 at 10:04pm |
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so if my math is correct i need around 30 gallons of water in each tire.
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Posted: 25 Aug 2012 at 11:19pm |
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No reason to drain it for winter if you won't be using the tractor. The tires can freeze solid and it won't hurt anything as long as you don't move it while frozen.You'll never be able to get it all out anyway by draining.
Edited by m16ty - 25 Aug 2012 at 11:21pm
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 at 4:47am |
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I got mine from gemplers. what I had planed on trying to do was use a piece of hose hooked to a barrel pump then hooked to the tool for putting in water. then I was going to fill the tires with used anti freeze from a 55 gal drum. I never got to try it, my 8n had only 1 tire loaded with anti freeze and I almost rolled it over, since all the wieght was on one side, I sold the tractor before I could try loading the tires myself. I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 at 7:34am |
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Farm and Fleet stores usually have them at the air chuck etc display.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 at 8:30am |
 AC WD45 wrote:
so if my math is correct i need around 30 gallons of water in each tire. |
Closer to 50 gal.
I just loaded one of my 14.9X28 tires and it took just under 50 gals.
With 2 lbs of CaCl per gal, that's just about 500 lbs of extra weight right where you need it.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 at 9:41am |
Brian G. NY wrote:
Closer to 50 gal.
I just loaded one of my 14.9X28 tires and it took just under 50 gals.
With 2 lbs of CaCl per gal, that's just about 500 lbs of extra weight right where you need it. |
I believe he wants to add 500 pounds total to the tractor, not 500 pounds per wheel.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 at 10:52am |
This might help ya, I went through this a while back.
It's a slow process. I should update this post someday, since I have now used the things I got....
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 at 12:00pm |
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Water (with nothing added) is about 8.35lbs per US gallon. If you want to add 500lbs to the tractor's weight, that's 250lbs per wheel, or 250/8.35= 29.94 gallons.
Draining as much of the water that you can, is very advisable, particularly in your lattitude- when water freezes, it forms a crystalline structure that occupies more space, than in it's liquid form. 28.6 gallons of water will fill a 13.6-28 tire halfway. If you freeze the tire at that level, there's a definite likelyhood that you'll wind up with a broken rim, and broken belts in the tire carcass.
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Posted: 26 Aug 2012 at 12:06pm |
If anyone is looking I have aprox 100 gal of Dow-Therm chiller antifreeze (not for engines) that can be used for tire fill or for in floor heating systems.
For a tool I used a piece of plastic hose to fit over the valve stem and clamped it onto stem, then converted other end to air hose fitting , as the tire fills you need to bleed the air out every so often so you are not creating a back pressure against pump or air binding system.
Edited by Coke-in-MN - 26 Aug 2012 at 12:38pm
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 at 12:17am |
We used windshield washer fluid & rigged up a swamp cooler pump to pump it in the tires.
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 at 9:55am |
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Thanks guys I bouht the tool yesterday and put aboout 30 gallons in each side. Worked great!
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 at 1:55pm |
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I get used antifreeze from my mechanic. He's glad to get rid of it.
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 at 3:40pm |
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I don't want to have to buy a pump. Idc how cheap they are I'm living pay check to pay check
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Posted: 27 Aug 2012 at 6:59pm |
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I took a 3" pvc pipe, about 2' long. Reduced it down to a hose spigot and hung it about 4' high on the wall. I hook a hose from it to the adapter and to the tire. Put the valve stem on bottom and let the tire flat before hooking up the hose. Pour antifreeze into the pipe and let it feed into the tire. It's slow as molasses, but it works. After I get about 5 gallons in, I hook it to the hose bib on the barn and finish filling with water. You will have to stop periodically to let the air escape as the tire tries to build pressure. Remember, water pressure on a building is around Fifty pounds or more, so don't let it over pressure.
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