Filling tractor tires??

[CountryWannabe]

Not sure if this is the right place to pose this question - if not, please relocate it...

I know that people who run tractors often fill the tires with some type of self-sealant foam to prevent constant flats. I have a couple of questions:

1) what is the brand name of the stuff?
2) where do you get it?
3) does it work?
4) how is it inserted (through the air valve)?
5) will it work equally as well on a ride-on mower?

Well, I guess that is more than a couple of questions. I am fed up of having to get my ride-on tires fixed. They are often more plug than tire by the end of a year... The slime stuff didn't work that well...

Mary

[oneokie]

Check with a tire shop that does farm tractor tires or industrial/heavy equipment/fork lift tires.

How much slime did you put in the ride-on tires? Sounds like not enough.

[davel745]

Try TyrFil It is made to keep tires from going flat.

www.pathwaypolymers.com/

Good Luck

Dave

[Curtis B]

If your talking about needing it for a riding lawn mower then get "slime". It is sold almost everywhere. It works really well, but it is a mess when it comes time to change tires. You take the valve core out and it just squeezes in from the bottle, put the core back in, air up, and dirve around a bit to coat the tire. If you want it for a tractor, it would get real expensive.

[uncle Will in In.]

If you're talking about garden tractor type tires, the best luck I have had is to put tubes in them. Bigger tractor tires most ofter have tubes with fluid pumped into them by someone who repairs or sells that size tire. <>UNK

[Old Vet]

On the front tires you need to put a tube in and fill that with slime or another product. On the rear you also can put a tube in and fill that with slime or another product. There is also a foam that you can put in to keep from having flats. What is causing your flats thorns or sharp objects?

[CountryWannabe]

Thanks guys. I wasn't ignoring you - I have only now been able to pull HT up again. I only have a ride-on mower, but the areas still are not real grassy - plenty of weeds, thorns and some tree that seems to spring a shoot up over night with really good sized thorns. I also admit to not being an obsessive lawn-mower so sometimes it goes two or three weeks, which is not that bad in some areas but others can get to jungle proportions in that time. LOL.

Mary

[fantasymaker]

Around here the industrial tire shops put something in them that is about the consistancy of soft rubber It sets up as a sorta soft hard but not runny and is great for tactor tires in the thorn trees

[Big Dave]

Are the briars Mesquite or Bradford pear? In any case get you some 2-4-D and erradicate the boogers. Maybe dig em up? I hate working on tires that have gunk in them.