Foam filled tires

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kevin Crouch on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 04:51 pm:

anyone have any experience with foam filled tires for no flats??


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ed Baudoux on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 06:00 pm:

I have seen them. They shake like a dog shitting carpet tacks.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Greg Whaley, Georgetown Ontario Canada on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 06:04 pm:

Too funny Ed! I just spit my pop all over my keyboard.....:-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By keith g barrier on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 06:16 pm:

Kevin, the work well for wheel barrows and such, a lot of heavy equipment like extend a boom fork lifts and loaders use them. KB


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Chuck Hoffman - Gold Country of Calif. on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 07:33 pm:

I've used them on Bobcats and they sure won't go flat. Replacing the tires is quite another story....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Kopsky, Lytle TX on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 09:22 pm:

I know it costs $800 to fill one rear tractor tire. $1600 for two and that doesn't count the cost of the tractor tires. It's not for highway tires--Off road only. Continuous speeds over about 35mph will cause them to heat up and self-destruct. Other than that, the fill works great for farm tractors, lawn tractors, wheel barrows, or any off-road machinery tires.

And, it's not really "foam". It's a urethane complex with various hardness options. It is, for the most part, solid.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 09:31 pm:

They are also VERY heavy. At least the 10.00x20 truck wheels and tires that we used for some house moving dollies were, but once they were on, no more worries about flats. Dave


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Patrick Martin on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 09:39 pm:

who's filling tires????


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Schedler, Sacramento on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 10:18 pm:

They filled the aircraft tires at the McClellan aviation museum with foam.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robbie Price on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 10:55 pm:

My farmall cub front tires are filled with foam, they sure don't go flat .


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brendan Doughty on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 06:56 am:

I ran them on my 17 touring for years. The tires then wore down to the foam. At the time I had mine done the cost was only about $50 per tire. I did not replace them with foam because the cost went way up. It's a good idea for 30x3 as they don't have a lot of volume so not much weight is added.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kevin Crouch on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 09:03 am:

There is a place here in Texas that will do my front TT tires for about 100 bucks each. I figure it would be good, I top out at about 23 mph. The man who fills them says I shouldn't have any problems at that speed.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gary H. White - Sheridan, MI on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 09:17 am:

Ed, One of my dad's favorites was "Shaking like a dog crapping on a briar bush."


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Grady L Puryear on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 04:34 pm:

Bump - Boy, how things, and prices, change. Foam was almost a given in anything we had that we drove off the highway. The last I had done was on a hunting Jeep back in the '60's. I had 700x16's all around, it was a Military Jeep. Anyway, an old boy in Goliad made a good living putting in foam in anything you wanted, had a tank in the back of his pickup and would go anywhere to do it, lots of Industrial fork lifts in Corpus and Victoria and etc. Anyway, I took my Jeep to Goliad and had him fill the tires up, they were new and I was plenty tired of flats all the time on the lease from thorns and rocks. If he charged me anything I would be surprised, I more than likely bought him dinner and a 6 pack and we called it good. I towed it to the lease, probably 300 miles give or take, at a pretty good clip, but I never towed it that fast anyway. Never had a minutes trouble, we balanced them pretty well too. Over time, if you punched a big enough hole in one, the foam would start to ooze out till it hardened. I liked the concept, and had it in my tractors forever. He is long dead now, and no one filled the niche, good job for someone that wanted it. Picture is of the Jeep, the tires, a little buck my wife (shown) had killed that morning. Yes, I call her my "Child Bride".


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve McClelland on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 05:22 pm:

If you don't plan on driving over 15-20 mph. you will love it we use a lot of it in our maintenance carts tires we run inside the plant and some of those run pretty fast. They thump, bump, and wobble.....
Plus after a couple years the foam breaks down and the rubber gets loose then winds up ripping out the sidewalls on the tires. I wouldn't want it in my tires, I know a fellow that just had his tractor tires filled $2200 bucks! I'd say they will be a bear to take off when the time comes.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Kopsky, Lytle TX on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 08:37 pm:

Grady - That's a "buck"? Looks more like a jack rabbit. :-)

Steve - You don't take the tires off. Once the tires wear out, you buy a new rim, tire and refill. The cost of cutting a filled tire off a rim and cleaning the rim would be more than just buying a new rim. The center and the rim are usually separate on the larger tractors.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve McClelland on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 11:18 pm:

Makes sense Ken so the next set will run you double or triple , what the first set cost...!
As I stated I don't want it in anything I own.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 11:45 pm:

I think it might be of some consideration for the rear 4 wheels on a Snow unit. If you have a flat on the rear you need to remove the tracks to get the tire off, and if your out in the cold and snow that would be quite a task " I am to old for that" Also you will never go over 20-25 in one.

Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Stanley M. Sipko on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 11:58 pm:

My nephew uses foam inserts called Moose in the tires of his dirt bike for racing. It looks like just a big round piece of hard foam that you put in instead of a tube so you dont get a flat. I know they work on a bike but I dont know how they would be on a Model T.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By kep NZ on Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 01:26 am:

Was there a picture of a car someone found it had a lot of sawn pieces of round wood inside instead of a tire tube?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 11:10 am:

Kep
This is not the wood one, but is the some in idea with rubber. I've seen an add some where for them(wood)but don't know where.

Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robbie Price on Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 01:05 pm:

I think it is great! Without it my tires would have been gone long ago but they are still serving me well. My cub don't ever get over 15 mph but it runs down the garden row pretty smooth, heck, for that matter, it runs smooth on the road too.... I don't think I would want it in any of my T's though.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robbie Price on Saturday, November 10, 2012 - 01:12 pm:

On an added note, I have a commercial zero turn mower with a 27 hp kohler engine that has solid tires on the front because the fronts are prone to punctures. They work well. I would consider foam in the front tires on it if I was doing yard word commercially! I have seen too many guys in the parts store buying tires and complaining about it.....great stuff!


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