They get more rain in Tucson then I get in north Scottsdale.
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You mean Green Slime? I have a gallon of that stuff somewhere in the shop. Guess I better find it.
Never found one of those. I bought a solid rubber tire for one of our wheelbarrows (cost twice as much). Sure been nice not having to fill that up every time I need to use it.
Yep, wheelbarrow and tractor tires, it's like the tire fairly lets air out each night.
I remember when I put solid tubes in my bicycle tires because of all the flats. Don't ride it anymore, but I still have it.
My truck seldom ever needs to have air added. My bobcat hasn't changed a pound in pressure in the 12 years I've had it -- and those tires go through some gawd-awful abuse. Yet these damn riding mowers and wheelbarrows lose air overnight regardless of how often they get used (or not used).
Didn't that make for a really stiff bumpy ride? (assuming your bicycle didn't have any other suspension except for the give of an air-filled tire)
Might be the tires. Our Huskee mower never loses air, stored in a shed.
Yeah I know - but don't know where the air is leaking from. A friend of mine who is the spray polyurethane foam (roofing) business filled my wheelbarrow tire with foam, haven't had any problems since.
Dual springs on the forks and a single spring in the rear. Still made the ride bumpier, but I didn't hafta buy new tubes every time I rode it. Nails, screws, thorns, sand spurs, etc did a number on tubes.
Hey! Ya know that foam stuff that comes in paint-can sized inflationary pressurized cans? You can't screw them onto the inflation threads of a tire, but I wonder if I removed the air pin if I could fill my tires with that stuff. Or, more likely, I'd just make on helluva mess in the shop...
We tried that with spray foam. All we got was a glob of foam just inside the nozzle. Worthless.
I don't think that is closed cell foam, but I could be wrong.
Well, I'll scrap that idea and step back to the green slime solution.
To use the slime you just let the air out of the tire. Remove the valve from the valve stem.
use the included poly tupe to put over valve stem and snout of slime container and squeeze in the proper amount.
Replace valve stem and inflate. rotate tire several times around slowly while tire is still off of ground.
Then drive for a bit to help distribute the slime all over the inside of the tire.
Yeah, I used it about 10 years ago and it worked great. I just forgot I had it. I hope it is still usable.
That sounds like the instructions off a bottle of the stuff. Works fine, as long as the tires are thick enough.
Hubby says the slime fucks up rims. Not sure how true that is.
Who cares what happens to the rim, the object is to not have flat tires.
OK. It's my bed time. Good night y'all.
Given the last time I used that stuff, the tires still had air in them (and no visible rim damage) long after the motor had ceased to work, so I'm not gonna worry about whether or not slime makes a few pits inside the rim.
Exactly....it's not meant for car-truck tires, but works fine in lawn mower and wheelbarrow tires.
Me too. I doubt anyone is still here, so LIGHTS OUT!
BS at y'all tomorrow.
BS at y'all tomorrow.
Ohh it is a bit messy if you go to change the tire.
Used it in several things here for a decade or so with no issues.
I would NOT use it on any highway tires though.
Had some old mower tires on a little trailer I pulled with my Gravely rider. They were OLD and cracked and leaked thru the sidewall cracks.
Used slime in em and they worked fine for 8 years or so. Kinda gave up when I put 4 big wheelbarrow loads of pea gravel in there though
I have only used it on thin cheap mower tires and such.
But had good luck.
I just remembered that I found THE FIFTH DOCTOR yesterday.
While talking to another neurosurgeon about pain management, one of the questions he asked was, "Do you smoke?"
ME: "No. I quit about 3 years ago. 50 years of Camels."
HE typed something into the computer and said, "Lucky Strikes."
I assumed he was saying that is what he used to smoke, so I said, "So you're the fifth doctor, huh?"
He paused and looked at me, his expression clearly asking WTF I was talking about.
I said, "When I was a kid, the TV told me that '4 out of 5 doctors smoke Camels.' Because you did Luckies, you must have been the fifth doctor."
He laughed and turned back to his computer.
While talking to another neurosurgeon about pain management, one of the questions he asked was, "Do you smoke?"
ME: "No. I quit about 3 years ago. 50 years of Camels."
HE typed something into the computer and said, "Lucky Strikes."
I assumed he was saying that is what he used to smoke, so I said, "So you're the fifth doctor, huh?"
He paused and looked at me, his expression clearly asking WTF I was talking about.
I said, "When I was a kid, the TV told me that '4 out of 5 doctors smoke Camels.' Because you did Luckies, you must have been the fifth doctor."
He laughed and turned back to his computer.
OK, gang, any of you willing to crawl out from under your respective rocks and talk tonight?
Had the computer on, but was in the other room watching "bizarre foods"....guess I got wrapped up in his crazy adventures.
How is Rich this lovely evening?
Tired. Totally worn out from having done absolutely nothing today (dark, drab, cool, rainy)...
Another winter-summer day in duh-dakotas......
It was slightly cooler here, thanks to the clouds. No rain.
Unless my calendar is off, it is two more says to Summer Solstice, but the highest it got here today (for only a few minutes) was 69. This is getting kinda freaky.
I don't know what the temp was today, but the humidity finally burned off....not as bad as it was yesterday.
I know we need some rain soon. With our luck, if we get any, it will flood.
That's what usually happens....can't just get a nice long steady rain, has to dump flood then move on.
We call it "splash and dash". Problem is that the soil is so hard, rain won't soak in.
True that....!
Ahhhh... poor southerners. Our soil is soft (sandy loam) and the pasture grass is currently ass deep.
Sure. Look how long you had to wait for grass to even grow, due to the cold winter.
Don't worry, it'll be snowing again before you know it....!
Yep. Just 3-4 months. It almost never snows here.
Live for the day
(tomorrow will take care of itself)
(tomorrow will take care of itself)
Bailing up the hay yet? You did say it's already ass deep, and I'm sure you didn't mean "when I sit down".Live for the day
(tomorrow will take care of itself)
I remember his saying he had to trade milk for hay, and something else, I think.
The neighboring ranchers, who have huge fields, have already made their first cutting and baling (large rounds). We don;t do anything with ours (not big enough) except let our critters eat it. I wish this year, however, that I could cut it because once it gets the seed tops, the horses might not want to eat it. There is enough out there to feed them all summer, but the lazy asses might not want what is right in front of them.