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Beginning to hard tire tubes

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Every year about this time of year I get the hay equipment back up and running. Every year I find a few flat tires and have to fix them. Well I have spent the last week repairing/patching tubes in tires. I find the holes made by thorns can be very hard to find even with soapy water. Just blowing off a little steam here since I have mounted and unmounted 2 or 3 that I believed where fixed only to have them go flat again
Hobby farm
 
Old, I bought neighbors 94 Roadmaster. Swear had about 8 flats in 200 miles of driving. Right now maybe I'm caught up. Sssssss whats that noise?
 
That's the reason that I've almost completely switched to tubless tires. I change and fix all of my own and I put slime in all of them. Even with the rocks and thorns that I have, I seldom have a flat, I even ran a deer antler through one and it didn't go flat.
 
One of the ones I have been working on has slime in it and its also one that needed about 5 patches to fix it and I think I still missed one hole. Plus unless you have tube less rims it doesn't work out safely
 
Just stand-by for a while Micheline is coming out with a brand new type tire that has no tube no air flats will be a thing of the past.
Walt
 
Jim, on things like the baler and rake that is what I have been doing but even then a few thorns do get to the tube. Now like the one that has slime in it that came off the front of my Oliver 77 and it has the 3 rib tractor tire up there. I did take that tire and line it with an old tube since I have found that helps a lot to rub the points off the thorns before they get to the tube
 
I know what you are going through. I am on my 8th front flat, and one rear flat, in two months on my mowing tractor. I have one tube I keep removing, and checking. I can't find the hole this is the third time. I don't know why I keep messing with it. This tire is one of my front spare's. I guess it is time for a new tube. Stan
 
I have a skid steer here with foam filled tires (was that way when I bought it), you can't get a flat in and I have used that to my advantage a couple times clearing brush but, the ride is bone jarring and traction is not good as they have no give. I wouldn't go out and have it done again.
 
Old, I know how you feel. Took the week before Memorial Day off. Cut hay and worked the bottomland for summer annual. One front flat on the 1650, two rear flats on the same, both sides. Slow leak on baler that I need to fix.
 
Inner liners from split rim tires cut to length then put inside the tread portion of a standard three rib might give thorns additional room and tougher material to get through. Best of luck, Jim
 
Used to work for the county - running a tractor/mower along roadsides. Worked with another tractor in my team. Between the two of us, if we didn't have at least one flat between us daily we had a good day. We were using steel radial truck tires on the front, and earth-mover tires rear. (Course this was before bottle-deposit laws, couldn't go 10 feet before breaking another beer bottle!)
 
I have'nt had any problems with flats unless the tire was just plain wore out. Everything else gives me fits though, including the weather.
 
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