bushmanbilly
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Post by bushmanbilly on Jul 21, 2013 2:08:29 GMT -5
AP Breaking News. Drones over South Dakota carrying Goggle earth GPS guided LFT deflating missiles.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 21, 2013 9:59:26 GMT -5
It must be gremlins! I remember a movie from way back in 1972, starring Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett. It was callled Pete and Tillie. They had a neighbor, a real pain in the butt type of guy, that was always going on about the great gas mileage his car got. Turned out, Matthau's character had been secretly ADDING gas to the tank. When his wife caught him/heard about him adding gas, he says something like - "Juat wait until I start DRAINING it now!"
Had a friend that went through a spate of tire issues, starting with the rear tire on her three wheeler, when we were miles from camp. She was a trooper, rode it all the back. Then it was her car, parked on the street in front of her house, next time it was the tread peeling off a tire on their trcuk, while coming home from a wedding in Arizona. You get the idea... We started calleing her "Blow hole!"
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 21, 2013 11:14:27 GMT -5
LOL, Girl, you're giving away your age, talking about movies "way back in 1972"
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 21, 2013 12:19:29 GMT -5
Left front tire this morning.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2013 12:22:14 GMT -5
Don, there must a a hunk of (rebar, rebar, old junk, machinery...) sticking up in your path, perhaps in a turn. This was the front tire gets it and the rear does not. Doesn't make sense.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 21, 2013 12:27:02 GMT -5
No puncture in the tire. I've checked it all over with soapy water. And why just the left front ? Every time I mow, I cut from a different direction.
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jul 21, 2013 12:27:11 GMT -5
Left front always in the uncut grass,weeds,pressure more on the turns,particles getting between tire and rim.Right front is on cut grass.Doesnt explain the trailer tires though.
snuffy
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 21, 2013 12:49:05 GMT -5
Snuffy, it's always parked on a concrete slab with tires all fully inflated. That tire was fully inflated yesterday afternoon. Admittedly, there were some construction scraps in the dirt around the house after it was built. but that was 17 years ago. Until having our house built, this was all pasture land. Just tall grass, weeds and some alfalfa. And lots of cow poop. When I store it for the winter, it's up on concrete blocks with the tires off the ground. And why all 5 lawn tractors I've owned since moving in here with the same left front tire problem ?
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bushmanbilly
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Post by bushmanbilly on Jul 21, 2013 13:00:36 GMT -5
I think your wife is messing with ya.
But here is a shot in the dark. When you park your tractor. Is the LFT always against the shed? Maybe the tire never sees the warmth of the sun. Maybe its the temperature difference causing the air to shrink. Like what happens to truck and car tires in the fall. Try N2 next time your in town. N2 does not change with temperature.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 21, 2013 13:18:58 GMT -5
Billy, the place where the tractor is parked faces the south west. Both sides get equal amounts of sunshine. The nose of the tractor faces my garage door near where my compressor is stored.
I doubt if it's my wife. I don't think she knows what that little thing sticking out of the rim is for, much less how to use it to deflate a tire.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2013 13:23:40 GMT -5
and no neighbor kids effing with ya? prolly not, but had to ask.
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bushmanbilly
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Post by bushmanbilly on Jul 21, 2013 13:34:54 GMT -5
The only other thing I can think of is a bad rim. But like you say, it happened on your other tractors. Oh well you can always blame it on Bush.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 21, 2013 13:36:44 GMT -5
The only other thing I can think of is a bad rim. But like you say, it happened on your other tractors. Oh well you can always blame it on Bush. Nah, Helen and a couple others would agree with that one.
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