Adding Weight to Your Garden Tractor Tires | How to Add Liquid Ballast Lawn & Garden Tractor Tires 

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I'll be here to help. Rusty has called me before!

Thanks! I appreciate it!

@fartpoobox ohyeah we called them spade in Iraq, here it's a tire spoon.

The fluid level should never be above the top of the rim, unless you really like a rough ride.

You could use both and double the weight!

With the bolt on weights, you can easily take them off. Liquid isn't quite as easy lol. I have loaded tires on the work tractors, the lawn only one has no extra weight.

@@Blazer02LS yeahh thats true too if you ever need to remove weight

Doesn't work for us in the north that use em as plow tractors

I'm on lake erie, do the same. Hose on the jug or just a funnel. 5 minutes and done.

You can fill them more when laid on their side. I just stopped at 6 gallons. It may take a little more.

That's great if your tubeless

Weight on the tires increase traction in all conditions. For muddy weather you could go dual rears for extra flotation. Regarding punctures, these tires are tough enough to not easily puncture. The only hazards to avoid are nails and screws. If you puncture it, you will just repair as normal and refill the liquid. RV anti freeze is not toxic and will not affect your surrounding property

@@Isavetractors I appreciate your input. However, I'm speaking of using the standard lawn tractor tires that are on my riding mower, not buying the heavy duty tires you used nor installing dual tires. My question was about simply filling standard lawn mower tires with the RV antifreeze. Yes, I do know there are plenty of heavy duty tires on the market. But that isn't what you get on a Poulon riding lawn mower! Those tires are often only 2 ply or 4 ply at best and they puncture quite easily. I don't want to have to keep buying and refilling with the antifreeze over and over which is why I was asking about any thoughts on using it in standard cheap turf mower tires, not the heavy duty tires in your video. Seems like the advantage of tire weights or something similar is that they never leak out. As for mud, I think you missed the point of that question too as you say that the heavier weight of the tire improves traction then follow that up with suggesting dual tires for better flotation. Flotation is a different technique for going through mud that largely isn't so much dependent upon using heavy weight to gain better traction. Flotation is a principle of using wide tires that create as big of a footprint as possible, and generally tires which run on lower air pressure. The concept is to spread out the weight of the equipment being moved over as much tire tread area as possible. It isn't about "digging in and powering through" but is about riding high and NOT digging ruts or sinking down. With flotation, the more the tire weighs the worse flotation effect you get. Last but not least, lets look closer at hazars from RV antifreeze, which is based upon two chemical formulas, one using generally cheaper ethanol and the other using about 4x more expensive propylene glycol. Both can be toxic to pets or most any other living things if ingested in large enough quantities. True, a little might not kill you but per spec sheets it can cause a lot of nasty side effects you would not enjoy. Ethanol based antifreeze is grain alcohol essentially and that is a hazardous, readily combustible substance sold with a warning label about the risk. Ethanol is also the widely cursed culprit that is known to dry out rubber components and make them deteriorate faster and fall apart. So, let's see....we want to put ethanol in a rubber tire? I don't want ethanol in my lawn mower carb because it gums up the jets and ruins the rubber seals. Why then do I want that in a tire? Dow Chemical who is a large producer of propylene glycol antifreeze warns that some product using this ingredient are made from recycled propylene glycol, generally recovered from deicing of aircraft. The recycled stuff may have anything and everything from dirt, oil, jet fuel, etc. mixed in with the recovered glycol. So if you buy the glycol product, you could easily be getting a product that may indeed contain elements that are toxic. Frankly, there's not much in the way of any chemical based substance like antifreeze that is truly non-toxic. Buy a gallon bottle of whatever grain alcohol you like at the liquor store and drink it all in one siting. If you live through it, post here if you still think the stuff is non-toxic. I run an organic farm on my 20 acres of land and I truly don't want chemicals leaking out of tires in any large enough amounts to make an impact. A drop or two is not a concern. Four gallons in a tire that got slashed by a tree stub I ran over would be.

Your also much better off with the tire mounted with the valve stems at the top, that way there is enough air so you can still check pressure and not gum up you gauge.

Blazer02LS that doesn’t work with tubes.

I use RV antifreeze because of it's non toxic nature.

Depends. If you have a perfectly sealed tire bead air will be between the liquid and the rim. Also if your rim is painted, that will prevent corrosion. If you however have leaks in your bead the liquid will reach the rim and cause corrosion.

@@Isavetractors but the antifreeze will not cause it to rust?

Not as quickly. I'm using tubes here though so there is no issue. The calcium is what really accelerates corrosion

@@Isavetractors ok thanks

hands down everything rusts your rim, but even calcium chloride takes 20 years to cause problems. Rv antifreeze or wiper fluid might take 30.

Yes correct

The air gun has a gauge built into it. It doesnt pop out very much at the low pressures these tires take

When liquid starts pouring out of it. When that happens drain it out some, then add air.

@@Isavetractors pouring out of the bead stem and leaking out by the adapter thing?

Yes. As the other commenter said they're are charts too you can use. If using a tube like me subtract a gallon or two

Fill with the tire upright, valve stems at the top. Do not fill above that line.

White Farms it’s night and day for snow or muddy lawn.

You could take the clearance measurements of your machine and compare

Now you need to add weight to your front end to get some steering back.

Yes!

@@Isavetractors there's a auction coming up here in Minnasota that has a parts machine like your toro with a 72 inch deck and 54 inch dual stage blower