Loading tires
 

I've been thinking about loading the tires on my 1450 with liquid, but another thread gave me another idea. What about using lead pellets instead of liquid? It is 3 times more dense, doesn't leak, doesn't eat away at the rim, doesn't freeze, it's re-usable. I'm thinking it can be loaded with a funnel through the side of the tire. It is also fairly inexpensive. Anyone ever try it? Any pitfalls?

Here's 50bs for ~$80 including shipping, I'm not sure what calcium chloride costs.

http://www.zipmetals.com/product.asp...FU-PHwodAaUArQ

:bigthink:

9 gallons of washer fluid = ~72#, cost roughly $15, will not corrode your rims and will not leak out unless you get a hole. If you get a hole park it with the hole at the top:biggrin2: You can load it the same way with a funnel and you can reuse it as well. But I do not plan on switching tires out that often to worry about reusing $30 worth of washer fluid. Just my $0.02.

X2 to that...I am doing mine this weekend just have to get to wally world and get the fluid!

I've done 2 sets of 23x8.50 tires with washer fluid and each tire holds 6 gallons, it takes 12 gallons to do a tractor which cost about $25 bucks. The lead pellets will act like sandpaper as it rolls around inside the tire and will strip the paint off the wheels and will also chew up the inside of the tire.

Definitely a lot cheaper to go windshield fluid. I guess that's the way to go unless for some reason you have a need to add more than the ~70# per tire the fluid can provide.

Very interesting read http://www.google.com/patents/US2884039

Make sure the washer fluid has anti-corrosive properties displayed on label.
With the advent of all plastic windshield wash systems installed on most vehicles over the past 10+ years, some brands are not adding the anti-corrosion ingredient.

Most washer fluid is water with some methanol and ethanol as the main ingredient (1% to 33%). Without other additives the mixture promotes corrosion.

A cubic foot of lead weighs 700 lbs,might be a little hard to mount the tire.

Who said anything about putting a cubic foot of lead in a tire?

I did,:biggrin2:

This will be fun... google: "calculate volume of torus" and punch in the radius measurements and we can see how much volume in lead it would take....