Nah, the tire if fine. Love these videos of antique Cat tractors. Reminds me of when I was a kid and just starting out on this stuff and- the trade never lost its' magic for me. The fellow in videos here reminds me of so many hard working guys I was around for many years. Good people. I began around Cat stuff in San Antonio, Texas for about $2.25 an hour. Around 1970. Retired in 2006 from a union local in the northern states- with a pension. IN 2006. I never dreamt of where this career would take me. Pipelining, excavating, pipeplaying, grading, and one hundred other places I cannot recall. God Bless you guys. Take care. Really. Dangerous work.
I recently watched a couple tire co guys change out a pair on a front end loader - they did most of the work breaking the bead by hand with pry pars and sledges and thankfully had a liftgate to do the lifting - crazy amount of work. thanks for posting this video.
I remember doing one of these years ago. We jacked it up removed the wheel and carried it up the field in the bucket of a 3cx. When the driver got to the top of the field he tipped it out the bucket. The wheel rolled of down the field We absolutely pissed ourselves laughing. Great memories.
WOW! You may find this hard to believe, but it was my experience, on multiple occasions, in the depth of my dispair, when I thought nothing could ever go back to the way I once knew it as good an innocent when she said what you just said.
I like how you need heavy machinery to change the tires on other heavy machinery. Kinda begs the question, what came first, the tire or the heavy machinery?
Behind the beautiful facade as usual. Worn out equipment and laborers with a sledgehammer and ingenuity. Germany, Russia, USA and everywhere one and the same.
I worked for Eagle Picher Ind. in Lubbock Texas building the 613/615 line. I worked on the cabs for the ROPS/CROPS/ICROPS and just loved that job but hated the management.
Leaving the wheel assy. on the unit is the best way to work with any tire but not in this case due to the outer spindle. A couple buckets of soapy water goes a long way, too. I was changing a rear tire on a large Kubota at this rental yard in Fresno. I left the wheel bolted to the axle and just jacked tractor up. Mr. Know-it-all owner comes out and tells me to remove the wheel for best results. I explained to him this is the easiest way. He couldn't understand how. Mow-ron...
@Xx69roadrunnerxX A brand new tire of this size would be over $5,000. The plan is to patch the tire and the inner tube. The difficulty in changing this tire was moderate. Only 4 inside bolts and 2 outside bolts hold everything in place.
As you can see when he tried to get the tube out that it was "welded" to the inside of the tire. This is from heat and friction. The tube "welded"to the inside of the rim also. That is why the rim wouldn't release. The weakest most dangerous part of a 4 piece rim is the area that holds the lock ring on. When he takes his mallet and beat's on that your just asking for trouble. [You do not see it in the video but you hear it] Use TALCOM powder when installing a tube. Trust me.
I work in vulcanizing service,and we don't have another cat to help disassemble the tires.We all make with our own hands,and for a ,sorry,crap of money...just the big machine which separate tire is only help,but before and after we are the key figures to put down and back the wheel...
Must be nice working in an area where corrosion isnt a big thing, you'd need a red wrench, and a 1 inch impact to get those bolt out up here where I live.
Great Video....I noticed that the tire was pretty cracked up...did you just put a new liner and tube back into the same tire and if so how long would it last like that?
@DieselPowerTV Ya I figured it would be a few dollars for a new tire. Ive talked to a few guys about buying new tires for their mining haul truck fleets and the cost was astronomical!! Ridiculousyly expensive. Good thing the repair wasnt that bad though.
did u have to remove the tyre from the rim, why couldnt you lift the tyre in the air so that the wheel falls through but suspends on the opp side bead?
I am thinking maybe not just time for a new tube, but a new tire as well. Just judging from the fact that the entire thing is dryrotted completely through with holes big enough to stick my fist through.
I came here because I needed to take the tire off my Chevy cobalt and needed some instructions. Everything went well until I used a D6 dozer to lift the car up by the rocker rails, it went downhill from there.
Those tires aren't cheap. This looks like a privately owned piece of equipment, and the owner probably doesn't want to shell out money that would make your car tires look like coffee money. there's plenty of life left in those tires, since they run tubes in em, they don't have to be air tight, just enough meat to grab and not get ripped up by rocks.
hi ! i used to repair earth mover tyres for a company in eng land called OTR tyres . have you ever had a locking ring blow off ? i have ! its not fun !!!
