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Galen Houk

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Has anyone dealt with lead powder filled tires. I am buying an Oliver FWA with lead powder in the tires. I might just leave it in the rears but the front tires need to be replaced. I am wondering about health hazards and how to get it out safely. If you get it out, what do you do with it?
 
Sell it to reloaders and guys who make their own fishing weights. Wear a dust mask when handling for sure.
 
Are you sure it is lead powder? The used to sell a thing in this area called iron ballast, which actually was tiff (barite) powder with something mixed in to prevent clumping. It looked a lot like powdered lead, and weighed about the same.
 
I wonder if this is it? They called it led ballast, (not lead)
http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ttalk&th=69418
 

I would check very carefully into potential liability in handling it before you buy the tractor. There is the possibility of getting a very expensive headache.
 
(quoted from post at 19:34:47 05/02/18) Sell it to reloaders and guys who make their own fishing weights. Wear a dust mask when handling for sure.
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Lead powder? Is it even possible to melt it down?
 
I am 74 years old and remember that stuff but I think you will find it is not in fact lead. Some kind of heavy iron. O course I am in the backwoods and farm removed from the police, I would have no trouble buying the thing, can always dismount them and replace with new tires or just forget it and buy used rims and some new tires.
 

There is a possibility that it might be powdered lead.There is such a thing and apparently it was used for weight inside tires at one time.

But powdered rock was more common.


www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ttalk&th=69418

Back in 1968 Dad and I took the brand new Cub Cadet 125 to the Firestone store. And had what we were told was powdered lead put into the rear tires. Looked like pinkish tan flour.
We stood by while the tire guy broke one bead down and shoveled it in with a flour scoop.
Of course nobody was wearing and mask or safety gear.

Do not know if it was really lead or just stone flour of some sort.
 
If Town and Country Tire on Washington Ave. is still in business, I would stop by in person and ask one of the older guys if they know what the powder might be, maybe bring a sample in a sealed zip lock bag. If they know what it is and they would give you an honest answer on what can and what cannot be done with it. Cenex or Brandon Tire might be other places to ask.
 
Thanks for the help. After more research and checking the archives I find that it has nothing to do with lead the metal as some have said. It is LED and is a light tan almost white fine ground mineral. A person should use caution to not breath it as you would with any fine mineral that could get in your lungs. No environmental or health hazard other than that. The tires on front need to be replaced anyway so I will just cut them open and dump out the material. The rears will stay as is until I find a way to remove it without damaging the very good tires.
 
We had a tire class on it many years ago. It was called powdered lead. It must be disposed of in an environmentally safe way. I ran into it once in the years I was in the tire business. The guy traded the tractor off when he could out he had a problem. I do not know what the dealer did with the tractor. Tires were worn out.
 
(quoted from post at 12:53:41 05/03/18) Thanks for the help. After more research and checking the archives I find that it has nothing to do with lead the metal as some have said. It is LED and is a light tan almost white fine ground mineral. A person should use caution to not breath it as you would with any fine mineral that could get in your lungs. No environmental or health hazard other than that. The tires on front need to be replaced anyway so I will just cut them open and dump out the material. The rears will stay as is until I find a way to remove it without damaging the very good tires.
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I find no LED related to tires. I think that you should pay close attention to Hd6gtom's post
 
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