If you like your front tires, you can keep your front tires . A lugnut in every pot !! Ask not what a farmer can do for you ,but ask what you can do for a farmer . Huhh ,What !!
Clay Stewart obviously you are a moron (actually no your not) cause you eat you support the farmer ( so please don't eat so you don't support the farmer)
soaringtractor, where do you think all the food comes from that is in your pantry, and your freezer, do you think it just magically appears on the shelves. If it wasn't for the hard working farmers in the world you would starve to death you moron. just saying. Keep up the great work Wes.
thank you for all your hard work, i grew up on a farm and know all about it, i support my local farmers as much as possible, hello from BC Canada. anyone else reading this try to shop local as much as possible please.
PEOPLE,.. with all due respect,..please be patient and stop asking Wes "when will the tractors arrive", he has already mentioned a few times that he will let you know when it's time.
Thanks, We all mess up at times but most won't show the rest of us. It is easy to make a mistake, I ruined a tyre with 20 mile on it and talked about it for a week. good man for showing us.
I fully understand how you feel Wes. I have done similar things myself, in the past. But all one can do is just say well I guess that's what I get for not paying enough attention to what I'm doing. Don't beat yourself up to bad, were only human and are going to make mistakes. Thanks for sharing
I feel your pain. I once was Bush hogging a ditch and stupidly ran up on a culvert. A six inch slice through a new front tire that hadn't even been on the tractor for a hour! I still kick myself for that. lol
Any OTR or Truck Tire center should be able to direct you to a company that does "section repairs" on those. I work for a dealer here in KY we have a company pick ours up and they bring them back to us when they are done. Brand new tire worth calling a dealer about probably cost you 200-250 dollars for that repair.
I did a similar mistake with a skid steer loader. Working along a fenceline in town I found a T post laying flat on the ground. The triangle at the base tipped up and sliced the sidewall. I tried patching no luck. Took it to a tireshop that services truck sized and larger tires. They hot patched it. and the tire rolled for the remainder of its tread life. Cost me 40 bucks if I remember right. That was 8 years ago. Like I said in another comment I have a hot patch appliance on the shelf that will never be used again. I am sure a trade can be worked out. I need more T shirts for example
We have a place here where I live that does vulcanize tires. The only problem is I am in Texas and freight would make the tire repair as expensive as a new one after it is all said and done. Keep up the hard work.
about 1987 i was in a 4430 with 4 new tires on the back and i had a 3 point field cultivator on... anyway i was crusing a pretty good clip threw weeds when i drove over a wash out... the damn third arm broke and that sob tilted down enough and shoved the cultivator sweeps threw all 4 tires... trust me we all make mistakes and shit is going to happen im just thankful nobody got hurt cause a stear tire being caught like that could have spun the wheel in your hand and broke a finger or thumb
Reminds me of when I put new front tires on my Sky trac. The first bucket of shingles I went to dump into my dump trailer I caught the steel fender and sliced the sidewall open, the tire was 3hr old! I was left with a $960 sand box for on of my workers kids!
Had a few days like that Wes, you get 'em sometimes. It just makes the "good" days more enjoyable. I've never vulcanized a tire but have some ideas that might be worth trying, considering the cost of replacement. There are video's here on Y T that show repairs being done in 2nd and 3rd world countries where replacement is not an option.
That really sucks! $1400.oo and all you can do with it now is make a flower pot out of it. Those LED lights really light up the shop. Lets see what kinda light they give out after a year of diesel & welding smoke in there.
Must be great to have your Dad around to talk to and maybe get advice from, especially if you work the same farm. I don't farm now but I do miss my Dad.
I have seen these large patch kits for when they gouge off road truck tires, it involves cutting out sections of the rubber down to the band's, grinding, acetate, and then multi layer patches and finally a cure time. they say when done the patch is as strong as the original tire. The video actually popped up on YT a couple weeks ago off of one of your videos. They exist, but may be worth more trouble if you can afford the replacement.
There is a company here in southwest GA that vilcanizes tires... they did a front tire to an 8285R for us for $350 had a split in the sidewall from running over a peanut blade. Did a good job. Will be glad to get you in touch with them if you like
Ahh well Wes. that's why they call them accidents. hehe. can either cry or laugh it off, no matter what. all its gotta do is be fixed. and btw. I'm in eastern Pa here and I see no snow yet. nor do I want anymore of it either. Happy New Year too btw. :) thanks for vid. keep them coming and be safe.
I have just started watching you video's and have the up most respect for you and what you do as I grew up on a family farm keep up the good work and as we both know (SHIT HAPPENS) !!!!!
Sorry to hear about the problem, but take heart, sometimes stuff just happens. From what i have heard, once the sidewall on a radial tire is damaged, it is toast. Back in the days of bias ply tires they could probably have put a boot and a tube in it, but not any more.
@onelonelyfarmer Well Wes, yet another tough life-lesson learned. Sometimes, we pay dearly for our impatience. Hey, we all eff-up sometimes - such is life. On the bright side, at least it wasn't a rear tire, or worse, the side of the hood or cab that got poked - whew!
The farm I worked for right out of high school had something similar happen. I watched one of the other workers unload on the go and when they got to the end of the row the combine thought the grain cart was gonna stop and vise versa. Needless to say the grain cart went over the corn head and cost about $3500 for a 30.5-32 Tire.
It's not just farmers, anyone who operates any kind of machinery has done something stupid at some point or other. While moving rubble with a Fastrak I went a bit too eager trying to dump right on top of the pile and ended up with a brick bouncing out of the bucket straight through the front window, damaged the instrument cluster as well as getting glass everywhere including down my neck and in my hair.
Try Valley Tire....I know they repair and retread Ag/industrial tires but not sure if they do sidewall vulcanizing. If not, they might know who does. If you strike out there, contact a large volume heavy equipment user to see if they can give you a suggestion.
look at it as at least the wheel and everyone involved is ok one hour in the hospital er is way more money than the tire but I feel your pain 1500$ is a lot of money thanks for another nonBS video shit happens Tim is probably glad he doesn't have to explain how it happened lol lol
good job looks like he's A Tire Man Tireman you can do the outside rear tires on your road tractors the same way if you had the wide flotation tires on the steer axle of your road tractors they'll come off like that too
There is a "mine truck tire" vulcanizing repair shop just south of Eveleth Mn on hwy 53 that fixes things like that. However the cost to ship it would cover 2 new tires. For the mines here, that's cheap when dealing with a $96,000 tire.
gemplers might have what you need Wes. Sucks that happened. Just another example why you always gotta have your head in the game on a farm. Been there and done that myself when I was a kid on the farm. Thankfully it was only a tire.
Did something similar in the car a couple of weeks ago pulling out on the road cut to close to the road sign on the right took out the mirror, scraped the mud off the door, and ruined the rear tire!
Why the need for a replacement tire? About a year ago you and Tim demonstrated and were very enthusiastic about some liquid product that gets squirted into the the tire and seals against leaks even after a long period of time.
Hey Wesley, my boss toughs me a trick for seating stubborn tires, if you have a tire that's just barely touching the rim, and won't seat. Take some rubberized undercoat that's in a can and spra inbetween the tire and the rim, let it get a little tacky, and put air in it, the rubberized undercoat acts as a gasket. Idk if that trick will seat a tractor tire. But I seated tires on a r model Mack doing that so it may work. Just thought I'd share that with ya
They don't grow row crops anymore. Mostly what has happened in the past is some over seeding and a lot of applications of fertilizer and such to hay fields. Barring a real bureaucratic screw up the newish tractors will be there in plenty of time. It will be mid to late June depending on the weather before they have a real need for the new tractors.
Wow nine months to import the tractors. That puts some serious concerns about a desire to get a 6" Foden from the www.steamtractionworld.com/6inchfoden.htm
back when I scrapped tires had a container come from the Virgin Islands. tractor tire had a hole about that size in it they took a section of sidewall from another tire carriage bolted it to the inside and used a tube.
Shit happens I guess haha. Joys of farming. Could've been worse I figure you didn't get the hood or the engine and part inside. That could've got expensive in a hurry. Had a similar funny thing I did. I was using my cousin's TB100 with a loader to load old ruined round bale feeding rings into the bed of my truck to go scrap them. I had just scooped them up and was pulling forward making sure I didn't hit something next to the truck (can't remember what) as I was swinging the front end in and was paying more attention to it than the truck. I suddenly realized I was about to nail the bed with the bale spear so I quit turning and slammed on the brakes and just out of luck instead of hitting anything expensive I hit the plastic handle that opens the tailgate. I destroyed it haha but could've been a lot more expensive.
over here in the UK we sell stuff then buy it back because the value of stock keeps going up because of the weakness of our currency, I wouldn't be surprised if Wes has already sold the tractors back at a nice profit
There's a company called Rema TipTop that is here in the US that still does that. There's one here in Utah but I'm sure there is one closer to you that does tires as well.
a farmer i work for just had a 38-32tire just fixed over the summer run into the corn head on a jd9300 chopper. They have a place in NC that fixing them Wes
Dads are a big distraction on farms, lol I ran into the barn door this summer with the loader tractor because my dad was in front of me parking another tractor and I was watching so I didn't hit him and hit the door opening
I have a company that does vulcanized repairs near me. Brad Reagan tire, Cleveland, NC. That repair would only cost about 50 to 100 and done right. Not sure what shipping thru Fastenal would be but if your interested in doing that let me know. Off top of my head I'm thinking not over 400 for shipping and repair.
Oh and on that door flapping, my dad's old farm manager ended up trapped under the workshop door when it came off it's runners one time. Take care out there
