remove tractor tire fluid

Bruce L. Bergman fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

_MINE_ would be thrilled if I "dumped" it around all the fenceposts, and around the mailbox.

For the un-informed out there, Calcium Chloride is "dumped" into the environment in THE THOUSANDS OF TONS by your cold-climate road departments. It's chemically almost identical to salt, and is used as an adjunct to make cheeses (the kind you eat, cheese-head).

We don't have that problem here; We can put "something that freezes at

LLoyd

I store all my scrap steel plate on the back end of my tractor.

OK, now I know why it's done, but...

If you fill a tire with water, how does that affect the pressure? Do you just add air to bring it up to its rated inflation pressure? Does the water affect the handling (other than the added weight)?

I suppose you should always use a tube, to prevent rusting of the rim.

For a tractor that's only used in the warm months, would there be any harm in using water only, if the winter temps only go into the upper

Joe

Joe fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

It doesn't. You don't "fill" the tire with fluid, you _mostly_ fill it, then top it off with air.

Not if you fill it more than 3/4 full. You can sort of feel the "slosh" if you fill it about half-way, at least at road speeds.

It's not even a problem if the temps go down into the low teens, as long as it doesn't stay below freezing long enough to freeze the water. A rubber tire (and possibly a tube) are fair insulation, and even the little tires on an 8N hold ten or more gallons each. (what? 26-18.5? I don't remember, and I owned one up until about ten years ago)

LLoyd

Not that I'm aware of.

That concentration shooting out of valve stem will etch automobile paint.

--Andy Asberry--

------Texas-----

You want to see what happens when a fluid filled tire starts emptying itself while going down the road at 30MPH plus, and it hits the insulators on a transformer pole!!!!! Great big firecracker about 30 feet up!!

Alright, adding weight+antifreeze makes sense, but it would seem that it would be alot easier to just dump it (haz waste or sanitary sewer, not street drain) and make new. I know you can buy CaCl2 as snow melter by the 55 pound bag for a few bucks apiece.