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Old 09-30-2010, 12:19 AM
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To all of you guys that only mount your Cub's tires with spoons, I am proud to say that I am now part of the club. I just recently started working for Wingfoot, which is Goodyear's commercial tire division. Today I had a service call to the local utility company (Alliant Energy) to change 1 tire and repair another on one of their trenchers. The tire size: 26x12x12. And what are they? Tru Powers. After fighting with getting the second bead for almost 1 1/2 hrs, I remembered something that I read on here a couple months ago. I had to get the other side into the drop center of the wheel. How can I do this? I grabbed my trusty slide hammer, laid one side on the tire, and the other end on the ground, fired up the service truck, and backed up about a foot. The tire was mounted, aired up, and rehung on the trencher within 10 minutes. THANKS A LOT to whoever suggested the driving part. I can now say that I have and will always mount my mower tires with spoons.
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Old 09-30-2010, 01:12 AM
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Sound like you got your hands on a real PITA, I'll bet they weren't two ply's either.

It sounds strange until you've done it, but the smaller the tire, the harder it is to mount. Once you get ahold of it you can't do anything with it and you can't do anything with it until you get ahold of it.

LMAO, my Brother and I have been using bumper jacks and tire tools to break down and mount tires since we were kids. I guess poor people has poor ways...

Good job on figuring it out.
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Old 09-30-2010, 08:29 AM
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Tire jacks , oh the memories of breaking down and replacing my tires on my scout .
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i just did a set last week and have forgone the board method, found that the front end loader on the JD works wonders. just set the bucket at a vertical angle set the tire on the ground and down goes the bucket and the tire pops off the rim. :biggrin2.gif:
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Old 09-30-2010, 09:37 AM
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We have been using the bumper jack for years to break down tires. I'm glad to see others are using this tried and proven method.
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I got the old tire off with no problem, I had to use the compression method to get the new one on the rim. The nice thing about it, is that we were just going to scrap the tire that I took off. So now it is on the bed of my truck for the 1450 after I come across another one. Those will come in handy next spring for tilling.
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I did the front tires on my 1250 with spoons, but for the life of me I don't remember how I did it. What is the bumper jack method? Is it for unmounting or mounting.

Same thing for the 1st post. Slide hammer & drove over it with a truck?? Could you explain further?

The next time I have to do this, I would like to understand the tricks.

Thanks, FJK
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Old 10-02-2010, 07:16 AM
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the first step is to pop the tire off the edge of the rim, this is done by compressing the tire down off the rim by laying a board on it and driving something heavy on to the board and pop it down off. i have done this and have the board slid down the tire and you have to reposition it and try again.

the bumper jack is done by first finding a bumper jack which are few and far between now days and then find a bumper made now days that will support a car being jacked up by it, also a rare thing then position the jack on the edge of the tire and jack it down

i did it with the front bucket on a front end loader and pushed it off that way.

i guess you use what you have access to number one as for the spoons you can get them at TSC and you will never want to use a screwdriver again to change tires off of rims. also when putting tires back on rims use dish soap and they will almost fall together

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztmEPh-VxcY&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xak9T...eature=channel

or if the wife is understanding you can do it in your livingroom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L37nP...eature=related
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I must be an old school man I have never used anything else to mount tires with 23 8.50x12 or 28L x 38 other than spoons what else is there???????
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I must be an old school man I have never used anything else to mount tires with 23 8.50x12 or 28L x 38 other than spoons what else is there???????
Same here...
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