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Tracy Martin TN 
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 Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 11:45am |
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Methanol Alcohol works real well. Not as heavy or corrosive, but still a great job. HTH Tracy Martin
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dannyraddatz
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Location: Plainfield, Ill
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 11:38am |
Found this one call rim guard.
here another for ballest
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 10:35am |
you can buy bulk fasher fluid, check with trucking company fleet as they have source or oil supplier should line you up with someone.
Chemical supplier for the cal clo flakes or sometimes farm supply.
Used anti-freeze also works. Could see if you can get alcohol from local source and mix with water also to ratio for lowest temp in your area.
Fleet Farm might have is or can get bagged ice melt by pallet there also , might get it on clearance as we arent getting any more snow ... LOL
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Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel.
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Skyhighballoon(MO)
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 10:25am |
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Tractor tire dealers sell CaCl flakes in 50 lb bags. My first cousin has a small tire business and I buy through him...something like $16 or $18/bag. Rock salt is like regular salt (NaCl) and won't protect from from freezing like CaCl which has a much lower freezing point in a solution. You can buy pelleted CaCl ice melt but it takes much longer to dissolve into a solution than the flakes. It's also usually higher priced by about $10 per 50 lbs if you buy it retail. Buy some 55 gallon plastic drums (the ones you can remove the whole top lid so you can dump the bags of flakes in) to mix it up. You can measure in how much water you need for each tire using a 5 gallon bucket.
-20 degree windshield washer fluid would work depending on your area. It's a little hard to find places to buy it in bulk (55 gallon drums) but industrial chemical distributors may have it.
Mike
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Gerald J.
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 10:19am |
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Calcium chloride is the modern road salt. Softener salt is usually Sodium Chloride though sometimes Potassium Chloride (potash) is used. After seeing what Calcium Chloride did to a decently painted tractor when a tire split and pinched the tube on the inside sidewall, I won't use any of these again. Besides the tractor plowed better with the empty new tires than it did with the old worn tires.
Many a tractor rim has been eaten by minute CaCl leaks around the valve stem.
Beet juice sold commercially as "Rim Guard" seems to work decently without freezing, though I don't think its as heavy as CaCl and its harder to find and costs more. Winter rated windshield washer solvent has a following because its easiest to find in a big box store and at least as heavy as water without doing damage to the tube or tire from freezing and doesn't cause instant rust like spilled CaCl.
To get any into the tire, you turn the tire with the valve stem up and attache a gadget made for the purpose and hook up a liquid pump. You have to pause the pumping at intervals to release the air pressure and you generally stop with some air left in the tire so it can still flex.
Gerald J.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 10:00am |
If 'road salt' is calcium chloride, maybe talk nicely to the local road crew for some 'leftover' or 'spilled' salt.....
Would water softener salt work just as well ????
Jes thinkin out loud...
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paul s. mn
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 9:58am |
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windshield washer fluid,beet juice, stick around more will answer wwith more
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Ted J
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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 9:55am |
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Is there a way to make your own Calcium Chloride for insertion into tires? Can you buy it? Any cost difference between Calcium Chloride and any new stuff that is out there? What IS out there to replace it? Thanks
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