Water And Antifreeze In Tractor Tires

Straight water or washer solvent are about 8 lbs gallon and ethylene glycol is about 9 lbs gallon.

Water and antifreeze in tractor tires. For a 75 percent fill move the tire stem to 12 o clock. Position a barrel of ballast fluid in the tractor bucket. Turn on water and push antifreeze into tire. For over fifty years cordovan tires has been may 14 2006 water and antifreeze for ballast rear tires as long as the ratio of water to antifreeze is tractorbynet is the world s largest tractor community.

Some suggestions to make filling your tractor tires with water easier. Agreeing with nodust there is no real con to putting water in your back tires for most people. Then i just hook my waterhose to fitting that reduces to 1 4 npt you can get for 3 from home depot or any hardware store. Create a gravity feed by raising the bucket.

For a 40 percent fill move the tire stem to 4 o clock or 8 o clock. With the tires deflated i put 5 gallons of antifreeze in each tire with a sprayer. I screw a clip on chuck onto the 1 4 npt connector and hook my water hose up to the tractor tire walk off and let it fill. Connect the barrel to the tire using a hose and a tractor tire fluid fill kit.

A heavy tractor that sticks to the ground is a safe hard pulling tractor. Some use alchohol some like myself use a mixture of the non toxic or toxic antifreeze and water. I believe rimguard protects against freezing to about 40 f sodium chloride saltwater can be harsh on rims. Hold both garden hose ends up chest level and fill garden hose with antifreeze through a funnel.

Although of the most common liquid ballasts to fill a tire with is water you can also use antifreeze calcium chloride or polyurethane foam to fill your tires. Contact bobby ford tractor equipment today. Repeat until you put as much antifreeze in tire as you want and then top off with water. Attach hose end to tire stem and other end to water spicket.