I thought I'd do this the other day, so I pulled the Kubota inside, fired up the compressor, and proceeded to getting the fronts to 22 and the rears to 20.

The right rear was down to about 15 so I filled it up and over shot by a pound or two. While using my fingernail to take that little bit out, the core of the valve stem came out.

The tire, full of bio-ballast, then began to spray the ballast clear across my shop and all over my new (unfinished) cabinets to the point of filling up the drawers and soaking everything within the drawers. Then, it dawned on me to redirect the pressurized spray towards the open door and I grabbed a small piece of plywood. That only succeeded in soaking me from head to foot and my 4-wheeler, pressure washer, Masterbuilt smoker with multiple bags of chips, and multiple bags full of outlets, boxes, and wirenuts.

I had to go to confession today as I invented a few new swear words during and after that ordeal.

Not happy. Not happy at all.

The only saving grace is that it is mostly water soluble, so pretty much everything was hosed down with warm water and appears to be OK. I did, however throw away the electrical outlets and wirenuts as well as my smoker. I'm not about to eat anything that comes out of it after the inside was nearly filled with that crap.

So...learn from my mistake. Don't check ballast filled tire pressures indoors.

Calcium Chloride or Beet Juice (aka Rim Guard)?

Gustofer, don't feel too bad-

I did a similar thing yesterday. I was doing a service on my wheeled vertical air compressor and as I moved it I heard/felt a little liquid in the bottom. I realized I hadn't emptied the drain in awhile so I figured I would do it then.
My wife's car was in the way of moving it out of the garage so I just wheeled it to the edge of the concrete and thought that would be good enough. It had about 50 PSI left inside so I figured I wouldn't open the valve but just a little... What could possibly go wrong?

So I cracked the valve... nothing. opened it a little more... Nothing. Really gave it a turn this time and suddenly I had oily dirty water blasting everywhere as it sprayed off the floor and all around. Finally got the @#$@#$$ valve shut again and everything within ten feet was splattered. Took me 30 minutes to clean up.
I confess I said bad things.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Calcium Chloride or Beet Juice (aka Rim Guard)?

According to my local Kubota shop it is the Rim Guard. Similar to thinned out molasses evidently. Good thing too as I got sprayed in the eyes with it. That would not have been good had it been something more caustic.

My tale of woe: I placed a new full unopened 2 liter Diet Dr Pepper on the kitchen counter. Kitty decided to rub his head against it and knocked it to the floor.

That full and fresh carbonation blew the cap off the bottle. I stood in amazement watching that missle blast around the floor spewing that sticky sweet syrupy mess of exhaust all over the place.

In a second or two it spewed out enough weight to veer upwards and hit the ceiling. It still had enough energy to scoot around.

By the time it stopped moving I was wet with Diet Dr Pepper, the floor, walls, ceiling, appliances, windows and everything else was dripping wet too. Amazingly enough it never hit me.

Kitty? He scattered zooming away at warp speed.

It was a surreal event and it reminded me of a
Wile E Coyote and Acme Products fiasco.

From experience with a 1947 Farmall M series with filled tires: Check your tire pressure with the valve stems at 12:00. The liquid will be below the stem and if you have to let air out you won't be spewing liquid.

 
So glad I chose not to fill my rear tires. It just seemed, at the time, that there would be some mess somewhere down the road with the fill. If there's no implement on back, I carry a blue barrel full of concrete on the 3 pt hitch (buried the 3 pt hitch arms inside the concrete, except for the pins that stick out). It weighs as much as the lifting capacity of the FEL.

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Sounds like...Years ago I bounced a tennis ball in the garage for Roscoe the crazy Siberian Husky to catch. He launches at it, but hits the ball with his nose...which sends it up onto a shelf, knocking down a can of Rustoleum BLACK spray paint.

It hits the concrete at the perfect angle to somehow breach the seal between the can and the cans bottom...sending a spray of paint all the way to the ceiling.

The can is rolling around spraying the ceiling, then my gun safe, thgen my WHITE BMW motorcycle, then the floor. It repeats this several times, before I can throw an empty box over the can and secure it.

Luckily I had a gallon can of PPG pre paint, surface prep solvent. I wet a rag and cleaned 90% of the bike, then went to the gun safe, the ceiling, etc.

STILL have spray on the alloy rims that would not come off.

BTW....Last year had an issue with brown crap running from between the rear tire and the rim on my Kubota. Salty, brown stuff. I put the stem at 1200 and added some air, fixed the issue. Apparently I lost air when it sat for several months.

Could you please set up a video camera next time you add air to your tires?

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Originally posted by FN in MT:

brown crap running from between the rear tire and the rim on my Kubota. Salty, brown stuff.

Salty? You tasted it?

I dropped a can of Coke in the kitchen once. Panicked looking for a towel to throw on it, but it took too long. Coke everywhere! Ceiling, cabinets, you name it.

Next time I pretend I'm in a WW2 movie and sacrifice my body for the rest of the unit.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:

brown crap running from between the rear tire and the rim on my Kubota. Salty, brown stuff.

Salty? You tasted it?

The barn cats were licking up wherever it seeped. I gave a minimal taste test to see why. Cats seem to like salt..sure enough, salty.

Thanks for the tip, never thought of that.
My tires are almost 30 yrs old, same age as my tractor.

I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time but you will laugh about it someday.


I have a liquid cooling pump on my cnc router in my cabinet shop and could swear there was no coolant running thru the lines as nothing was coming back into the reservoir so I figured there must be an air bubble or something.


So like a complete idiot I decided to pull the line off while the pump was running I just figured I would slip it back on.

In about 2 seconds I took a complete bath in antifreeze, the pressure behind that hose was way more then I was expecting, I was drinking that crap, had it in my eyes and drained a 5 gallon tank before I could get the hose back on. At least I know the pump works.

I burn quite a bit of firewood, like A LOT of firewood per year. One time I was burning some crazy knotted up wood that was popping quite a bit. I had left the screen open for just a few seconds to grab some more logs when all of a sudden, BLAMMO! The entire fireplace exploded like someone threw a grenade into it. A veritable cascade of burning embers rained down on the living room. Dogs went wild, cats were running in place, trying to gain traction on the wood floor. The wife was not happy when she got home and noticed that the couch and carpet now had a decidedly "peppered" look.

And I thought I only come to this forum to learn the latest on Sig pistols!
I won't bore you with my many mishaps as I am a very slow typist.
$H!T happens to us all - at least we can learn and laugh (or just laugh)

Gustofer,

Wow, if everyone knew there was ballast in tractor tires this would be a pretty funny comedy skit.

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Gustofer,

Wow, if everyone knew there was ballast in tractor tires this would be a pretty funny comedy skit.

I'd imagine that if I had a video of it all I'd probably chuckle. Now.

LOL I can just imagine! At least it was just "bio-ballast", some fill them with spent anti-freeze they get at service stations!

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Originally posted by henryaz:
 
So glad I chose not to fill my rear tires. It just seemed, at the time, that there would be some mess somewhere down the road with the fill.....

Same here, for ultimate traction it's probably the way to go but there are disadvantages.... dealing with flats (I've had two out in the field) and swapping wheels. My last tractor had turfs and R4's mounted on 2 sets of wheels and I would swap them back and forth, I'd hate to do so if they were filled with liquid because they were heavy enough with just air. My current tractor (Kubota B2650) has turfs but I'm considering picking up a set of mounted R1's.

When using the FEL if I don't have the rear blade on I use a ballast box on the 3-point hitch. I just prefer having weight behind the rear axle to offset the loader.

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When using the FEL if I don't have the rear blade on I use a ballast box on the 3-point hitch. I just prefer having weight behind the rear axle to offset the loader.

My ballast box is a homemade affair. I stuck a couple of pieces of 4" plastic pipe in the concrete to serve as tool carriers.