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Codger 
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 Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 9:34am |
I have no idea what rims are worth truthfully as have never purchased any. PM me a price please. I don't know where Newton, IA is but I'm west of Peoria, IL between Galesburg, and Peoria about equidistant.
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Harvey/pa
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 11:33am |
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Codger, just replaced the tires and 1 rim on my 175D this summer. I shopped all around for 16 x 28 rims and prices ranged from 650 to 800 dollars, nobody that sold new ones had used. I finally found a used rim for $100.oo because the valve stem hole was rusted badly, Grandson cut it out and welded in the one from the old rim. I dropped down to 15.9 /28's instead of 18,4's to save $$...Harvey
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 1:38pm |
 DrAllis wrote:
Over the many years of antique tractor fixin, I've saved many a pretty rough inside of a rear rim with 2 or three layers of duct tape wrapped around the wheel to protect the tube from rubbing damage (after a heavy electric wire brushing off the scale/rust). Now, none of mine were ever a "working" tractor and no fluid, but if the rim looked pretty good on the outside, I seldom threw it away from inside pittting. Duct tape to the rescue !!!
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 1:46pm |
neat way to break the bead... course if I try it, I'll left the dang tractor off the ground..... then it'll roll back, jack comes off, flies at just under Mach3.4 and I'll be the 'headless wonder'....... and tire will STILL be on the rim
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Codger
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 5:31pm |
I borrowed a bead breaker from a friend and it works well. Clamps onto the rim and you tighten both the clamping arm, and foot nut forcing a shoe down onto the tire bead. This one is Harbor Freight but works surprisingly well:
You may think an impact would be faster and it may well be but not needed or you'll lose the control this offers as the pressure is applied.
Edited by Codger - 22 Dec 2023 at 5:35pm
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plummerscarin
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 6:39pm |
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I have that one. Like it very well. I think an impact is not recommended. Can't remember, instruction manual is AWOL.
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jvin248
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 10:09pm |
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Regarding your side hill stability... Try extending the wheel track width. Lawn tractor companies sell spacers to scoot wheels out to avoid tipping over. Most farm tractors have that feature built in for row crops, even if just changing the hub cup direction.
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Codger
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 10:39pm |
That is an option I'd considered when first getting the tractor a couple of years ago. It is very stable the way it is with the fluid but with the wider tires installed I may need to mount the center disc on the opposite side for clearance on the inside to tractor spacing. I don't really know how close the tire inner sidewall to fender bracing will be. Also don't know if the loop offset is all the same on this style rim, or if offsets are different with different rims?
I'm actually going to purchase a small "Woods" batwing mower next spring for this tractor that a guy I know is trading in. Don't mind putting a bit of $$$ into it as really like it and suits the purpose needed well.
Tractor:
Batwing mower:
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55allis
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Posted: 22 Dec 2023 at 11:36pm |
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Wheel weights hanging out there will add stability too…
What I’ll do is use the loader bucket to break beads…
Works with most all tractors tires…
My Wd45 has impressed me with stability with only 3 sets of wheel weights.
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Codger
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Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 12:22am |
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Thanks for the tips. I currently mow the roadside ditches with this and an RD-7200 three point mount mower and it works well, but have been waiting a good batwing to come in on trade as more useful overall to me. This one really does do pretty well and is not "tipsy" at all, but I do not know the slope the mowing is done at. Neither my wife, nor daughter would even think of mowing these areas although I have for over 23 years now without incident. I can't get the zero turn to track straight through these areas and it has difficulty climbing out of the low areas of the ditch. The tractor has no problems.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 4:02am |
Codger wrote:
Thanks for the tips. I currently mow the roadside ditches with this and an RD-7200 three point mount mower and it works well, but have been waiting a good batwing to come in on trade as more useful overall to me. This one really does do pretty well and is not "tipsy" at all, but I do not know the slope the mowing is done at. Neither my wife, nor daughter would even think of mowing these areas although I have for over 23 years now without incident. I can't get the zero turn to track straight through these areas and it has difficulty climbing out of the low areas of the ditch. The tractor has no problems. |
There's a cheap solution for angle finding, Harbor Freight sells these:
For $4, you can find the angle, and read it on the go, by putting the AF on a piece of sheet metal, on your tractor. Can also be used on a short length of light weight angle iron laying on the ground, in question.
I have an Altoz tracked ZTR mower, and it's the best on hills, I have ever used, so this comes from experience, with wheeled zero turn mowers, that touchas biting into the seat feeling generally occurs at 25-30 degrees, with losing control and sliding occurring somewhere around there. Since having the Altoz and the AF, I know that its moment happens at around 38 degrees. The price paid for those extra 13 degrees is a little more wheel(track) marks, when making zero radius turns. And a lot of wheel marks and skids are dependent on how wet the situation is, when you are mowing, as well as how you mow, i.e. ribbon striping vs regular round and round mowing.
Do what works best for your level of comfort, is my advice. Sometimes, around here, alls it takes is 1 ground hog digging a new hole in a hillside, to really roll your day over... 
Edited by DiyDave - 23 Dec 2023 at 4:08am
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IBWD MIke
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Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 4:04am |
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I broke a lot of beads with the 6080 and handyman jack! Works pretty good really. Last summer I bought one of the screw type breakers because it was the only way I could get the tires off my 'H'. Long story. They do recommend you don't use an impact on them because it will shear the roll pin that holds the nut to the screw. I use a DeWalt ratchet. Kind of wish I'd have bought it years ago, really handy!
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Posted: 23 Dec 2023 at 5:56pm |
Got a new pair of rims ordered in several years ago but never picked up. Makes for a nice Christmas gift from the implement dealer I help out so this chapter is closed.
Thanks to the parties responding to help me out with used rims. I really like this tractor and plan to keep it the rest of my days passing it to family when I'm done. It does what I need, when I need, so nothing fancier is required.
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