Wheelbarrow tire- filling with foam

[DeRock]

Anybody have any advice on filling a wheelbarrow tire with foam?

[unregistered353870]

My advice is don't do it. I've heard it doesn't last.

[1shotwade]

If you must,use "slime" instead of foam but you'll have to keep it moving for a while to find the leaks and plug them.

Wade

[HermitJohn]

Best advice I can give is to shop around for a replacement no-flat wheelbarrel tire/wheel. I've seen them as cheap as $25 at the generic Chinese tool stores, though you should probably expect to pay $30 to $40. Nothing you are going to do at home that can match this short of filling a regular tire with concrete, and that would add too much weight. All the expanding foam products meant for insulation wont hold up to this kind of use. And if you found a shop to fill it, still probably cost just as much as buying a replacement no-flat tire-wheel. Honest most wheelbarrel tires are paper thin. Another option is to replace the wheelbarrel tire with much heavier boat trailer tire and tube same size. That wont be cheap either unless you find good used one too bald for trailer use.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Watch for a sale and use a 20% off coupon at harbor freight for a no-flat. I've had one in service for around 5 years with no complaints.

[arabian knight]

Originally Posted by 1shotwade

If you must,use "slime" instead of foam but you'll have to keep it moving for a while to find the leaks and plug them.

Wade

And then after that you never would want to put a tube in it either. Slime is just that Tacky stuff that goes around all over the inside and makes it sticky and icky if you ever want to put a tube inside and the inside of the rim would be even hard to replace a new tire on it if and when that time might come.

[unregistered41671]

I put that green slime in mine several years back and it works well. Has not leaked down at all. If you need a new tire, sometimes it is cheaper to go someplace like tractor supply and buy the complete wheel and tire.

[1shotwade]

Originally Posted by arabian knight

And then after that you never would want to put a tube in it either. Slime is just that Tacky stuff that goes around all over the inside and makes it sticky and icky if you ever want to put a tube inside and the inside of the rim would be even hard to replace a new tire on it if and when that time might come.

You could be right but I've not had that experience with slime.Some of the tire shops actually use it to slick the rim/tire when mounting a tire.I used to hear all the horror stories about valve stems being plugged up so bad you couldn't get air in them etc. But I have never had a problem.
Also,I looked at putting a tube in a tire a couple years ago only to find they were almost as expensive as a new tire! Maybe it was just my experience but that broke me from even looking again.

Wade

[farminghandyman]

I use trailer tires on my wheel barrow. they work well, the wheel barrow tire is little more than an inter tube,

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

I have done slime and I have done inner tubes both worked

this is a pre slimed inner tube http://www.amazon.com/Slime-30012-Sl...be+WHEELBARROW

also keep an eye on auctions you can often get the 1 wheel wheelbarrows cheap it pays to have a spare

[Shrek]

When my maintenance man replaced the pneumatic wheel on his construction wheelbarrow last year he had me pick up a hard rubber replacement at Marvin's where he bought his wheelbarrow 4 or 5 years earlier and the heavy duty replacement wheel was under $20 even though I didn't have his contractor I.D. card for the discount.

[Allen W]

Originally Posted by arabian knight

And then after that you never would want to put a tube in it either. Slime is just that Tacky stuff that goes around all over the inside and makes it sticky and icky if you ever want to put a tube inside and the inside of the rim would be even hard to replace a new tire on it if and when that time might come.

Slime cleans up pretty easy and doesn't seem to dry out like some products do.

[arnie]

I found a wheel barell tire and rim ,with berrying n all[ at tractor supply for 10$ on sale this week .I bought 2 for another project , they were even filled with air . i'm making a cart to move heavy batterys sacks feed ,or hay bales and other things that in my youth I could toss about like couch cousions . . beautiful as mother nature is father time is ugly yet at that price a spare one on a rim is cheep as a tube

[arabian knight]

Originally Posted by Allen W

Slime cleans up pretty easy and doesn't seem to dry out like some products do.

I guess there are different types then because I had to Throw away my front wheel and tire from my riding lawnmower because the stuff was just Horrible. It was sticky stringy "gooey gobs of gopher guts" inside that wheel.

[ldc]

I've used "Tire in a Can/Fix a Flat" on several, and it lasted years!

[Alaska]

no flat tires ..... done