- Location
- Hampshire
We always ballasted loader tractor tyres back in the day, salt is a lot cheaper than antifreeze.
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Water in tyres
- Thread starter The Ruminant
- Start date
Cowcalf
Member
- Location
- North of Scotland
water in rear wheels can be coarse on your back
- Location
- Co antrim
Ok it measures 26.5 inches×27 inches×55 inches so any idea what that would weigh?
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I reckon 1.43 tonnes
- Location
- S E Wales
1 litre of water is just over a kilo
We put about 200 litres in the 13.6 36 wheels on ours
Starmaxx tyres have a chart on their website that gives sizes/litres and weight
That's what I used
Tomr10
Member
Ok so near half a ton
- Location
- Co antrim
Should be plenty
Suffolk Serf
Member
- Location
- Bury/Thetford
The tyre boys use calcium chloride iirc.
- Location
- S E Wales
Local outfit put ordinary antifreeze in ours at 20% dilution rate
oldoaktree
Member
- Location
- County Durham
A very long time ago we had a IH 475 with a loader on and silage bales came along we filled the rear tyres with water never got around to put any anti freeze or something similar in never had any problems we used to have decent winters back then too .
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
It would take a sharp frost to freeze 200+ litres of water, and in any case a tyre is obviously flexible enough to cope with a lot of expansion
oldoaktree
Member
- Location
- County Durham
Didn’t fill them right up either
ridger
Member
- Location
- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
I wouldn't like driving about with shards of ice trying to get out though
- Location
- America's dairyland
calcium chloride adds significant density to the water, but is hard on the steel if it leaks. Beet juice or other sugars are used sometimes, "rimguard". Or antifreeze, or windshield washer fluid, windscreen washer fluid? Plenty of charts online for weight by tire size.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
We used to use salt at Shukers (red rock salt, and mix it into the water with the pressure washer on hot in a drum, then pump into the tyre with a pto vane pump I think).
I have ballasted the rear wheels on a 75 hp loader tractor and I am very pleased with how it works, the back end can still be a bit light at times with a bale (but a heavy wet bale can be 1 ton or more).
It's not so much the shards of ice, used to drive a JD4040 with a pair of Trelleborgs on the back which used to freeze up when we had proper winters in the 80's. Used to skip when on the road fairish then when you stopped the blocks would still be spinning round inside so a real ar5e to keep it still at a junction!
- Location
- Hertfordshire
On balance (no pun intended) I think a weight block is better than water ballast then, by the sounds of it. I do quite a bit of trailer work with the tractor too, so need something I can put on and off quickly and easily.
- Location
- S E Wales
If you do make a weight do a good job of it ,nothing worse than a lump of concrete swinging about on the arms or bumping every time you stop or start moving
If you need to load the trailer you mentioned using as well as towing I would consider ballast as an extra
If you need to load the trailer you mentioned using as well as towing I would consider ballast as an extra