not 1 month old and 2 flat tires!

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Barely 10 hours on my new 1140 and I've gotten 2 flats allready. I have the ATV tires, maybe I should have gotten the worksite tires. Anyway, my last tractor I had the tires filled. That worked very well in preventing flats from the thorn apple trees that I seem to not be able avoid. I tried Slime and tubes before but the thorns managed to pucture. I'm thinking that having the tires filled isn't a good idea on an RTV. Anyone got an idea on preventing flats?
 
Any chance they simply did not seal around the rim? One flat is bad enough, two is the pits. Good luck getting to the bottom of this.
 
How much slime did you put in each tire?? I put at least 15 pumps in each of mine out of a gallon jug and will add more when I get it. I have had wonderful luck. I actually got a big puncture in the sidewall of the RTV and put a plug in it (I know that is a no no but with the slime and low speeds of the RTV, it has held up great.I would be much worse off if I had tubes because then I wouldn't be able to push a plug into the leaking tubes.We have those terrible thorn trees and have been inundated with the wild lemon bushes -awful thorns too. I try to drive clear but they are trying to take over.. I'm spraying like crazy but have a hard fight- The slime makes sure that I get home. Waly world and Amazon sells it in the gallon size for less than $30. Bordercollie
 
I had slow leaks in my tires when I bought it (and that was with the WS tires).

Slime (and no tubes) fixed me right up. Never had to touch it since.
 
slime is great i have it in all my rhino tires and had it in my hpx tires too i also keep a bottle in my emergency bos in the back of my rhino.


SLIME !!NEVER RIDE WITHOUT IT!!
 
Thorns are the one thing that takes out the atv tires. I had a flat in the first 5 hours when I bought mine. I took my backhoe and cleared trails to get in for my wood cutting. I try to avoid driving over them now.
 
Dunno what size you're talking about but, I have used aircraft tires onall my tractors and the neighbor has them on his Gator. We have those nasty Locust thorns all over the place. We used to have 2-3 flats a WEEK before I switched. Haven't had a SINGLE one in the 4 years since I started using them. The ones I have are 16 ply rated and work great. Even if you can't get them for your RTV, I HIGHLY recommend them for your tractor.
 
Dunno what size you're talking about but, I have used aircraft tires onall my tractors and the neighbor has them on his Gator. We have those nasty Locust thorns all over the place. We used to have 2-3 flats a WEEK before I switched. Haven't had a SINGLE one in the 4 years since I started using them. The ones I have are 16 ply rated and work great. Even if you can't get them for your RTV, I HIGHLY recommend them for your tractor.


I didn't know you could get aircraft tires for your tractor. Those things are bullet proof ... literally. I saw a news report some time ago where the cops tried to shoot out the tires of a highjacked plane and couldn't do it. Aren't aircraft tires essentially slicks though?

Put me down as a Slime guy although I have used Berryman's and others. We have those honey locust trees and the first flat I get I fill the tire with slime. I wouldn't say that I'm a slow learner but after 13 flats in one year I eventually wised up. I always keep a gallon in the shop for the tractors and a smaller bottle in each of my vehicles. It's never let me down except once and hoping that it would fix a 2" slit in a trailer tire was asking a bit much. :)
 
The aircraft tire idea sounds good but the traction part might be an issue,unless they make R4 tires for a Lear jet! Ya never know. Thanks for the Slime recomdations, I think I'll give that a shot and continue to eliminate those pesky thorns from my property.
 
I bought a couple of goodyear tires for the front of my tractor about a year ago. The started leaking air through the thread after four months or so. Had to put tubes in them.

I use to use slime, had it sit up and dry in a couple of valve stems.
 
with a rating of 16 ply it's real simple to do just like we mudders do and thats take a cutter or grinder and dig out some tread and still have a thick tire .look on youtube there are a few videos of how to cut the tread into a tire. just watchout for the tire weight because them tires are really heavy and can snap an axle like a toothpick.
 
Berryman tire sealant

Tired of flat tires on my tractors and RTV, I bought 5 gallons of Berryman tire sealant. I found a calculation to determine the ounces per tire but no where can I find the ounces per stroke of the pump. Short of pumping into a measuring cup I wondered if anyone on this site has already made this determination. Any help will be appreciated.

BTW, I am a nube to this site and learned a lot about my RTV 900 that I recently purchased used without an owners manual. Thanks!
 
Tired of flat tires on my tractors and RTV, I bought 5 gallons of Berryman tire sealant. I found a calculation to determine the ounces per tire but no where can I find the ounces per stroke of the pump. Short of pumping into a measuring cup I wondered if anyone on this site has already made this determination. Any help will be appreciated.

BTW, I am a nube to this site and learned a lot about my RTV 900 that I recently purchased used without an owners manual. Thanks!

A shot glass is 1.5 ounces so that should make it easy to figure the capacity per pump. Bob
 
We buy used tires for our heavy, heavy feed wagon. . They are actually off of a cement truck and are extremely heavy and still have some tread. I guess they don't want a blow out so keep them in good shape. They are 22.5 - can't remember the other # off hand. $185 put on the rim.
One of our old feed wagons had aircraft tires on it. talking about heavy and thick . The tire store almost couldn't get it off when it did go bad, he just fussed and fussed about it.
 
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