VERY expensive beet juice!

[Don87]

Its used with salts for more effective road treatment.
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larry

I had heard that once before. I can't remember which state I was traveling through last winter, and noticed a reddish/brown tint to the snow. Could have been anywhere between Illinois and Massachusetts. I'll make note of it this winter.

 

[WilliamBos]

They pre spray the roads up here with sugar beet pulp before freezing rain storms. The only catch is the roads need to be basically dry for it to be affective.

Works great.

 

[chrisser]

OK a little off the beaten path of the subject but how do I figure how much fluid a tire will hold.
I will have 16.9x24 rears and12.5/80x18 fronts

Thanks for the assistance:thumbsup:

Google "tire ballast chart" or something similar and there are tables out there.

Here's one:

Liquid Tire Ballast

 

[EMB5530]

Google "tire ballast chart" or something similar and there are tables out there.

Here's one:

Liquid Tire Ballast

Much Obliged chrisser:thumbsup:

 

[Soundguy]

Ya know.......the thing that has puzzled me the most...............

Why is it so expensive...it is after all a by-product(IE: waste)Virtually all sugar content is gone, the product actually has no net value other than it won't freeze til temps get below -30F, and the fact that it is heavy. :confused3::confused3:

hmm.. i wonder if it started out as a wasteproduct but is now a production product.

i did some reading and found where originally it was even a feedstuff addative for cattle. if so, it still has some sugar and cellulose content i bet.

much like beet pulp shreds.. etc.

soundguy

 

[Short Game]

I remember one particular industry trying to pass off radioactive wastes as "fertilizer," and another saying the same of sewage sludge, renaming it, "bio-solids." We'd all be amazed at what we feed to animals that can't read or vote.

Storing wastes in tires is probably one of the more benign usages. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the sugar industry isn't still having to pay to get rid of some of the stuff, or that is hasn't been long since those days. We can be sure they produce more of the juice than every tractor tire in the country could hold. The price could only be maintained if the supply to the tractor tire fill market is controlled.

No expert here. Just wild guesses on my part.

 

[RaydaKub]

I remember ... another saying the same of sewage sludge, renaming it, "bio-solids." We'd all be amazed at what we feed to animals that can't read or vote.

Is spreading "bio-solids" on fields all that different than hauling manure out of a feedlot and spreading it on a field? That's been going on for over a hundred years.

 

[Short Game]

sludge-biosolids

 

[IslandTractor]

sludge-biosolids

That article belongs in with the rest of the pre processed sludge. It is one of the more confused examples of pseudo-scientific gibberish I've seen in a while.

 

[ruko]

One plus for weights is that they won't ever pour out onto the ground if you puncture a tire.

I've been thinking about what makes beet juice better at resisting freezing and have come to the conclusion that it is probably a colligative property resulting from the sugar content. Wonder if mixing up a syrup of plain old cane sugar and water would behave the same?

I've just assigned myself a new experiment for the winter...I'm going to mix up a saturated gallon of sugar water and leave it setting on the deck. If it doesn't freeze then I've just invented my new tire fluid!

Great idea! Heck of a lot cheaper than beet squeeze too. Did it work?

 

[puckgrinder85]

I filled mine with used antifreeze. We have to pay to get rid of it so I did a few tests tests (ph/ freeze point etc.) and strained it out, all was fine so I pumped it in our tires. Shops im sure will give you their full drums as like I said, we have to pay to get rid of it. It was a little more work at the front side but I kept busy by transferring and checking the freeze point constantly while mixing with as much water as possible. The used antifreeze is already diluted a bit so you may have to add some new antifreeze to bring it down to the freeze point you want.

 

[Soundguy]

at sugar prices.. is that cheaper than a mix of rv h/t antifreeze?

 

[motownbrowne]

I think I'll fill mine with maple syrup!:laughing:

 

[WilliamBos]

Cast iron is the way to go. Sugar beet pulp is tree hugger friendly, but highly corrosive to metals. They use it up here on our roads.
No need to drive a tractor sround fully ballasted all the time.

 

[IslandTractor]

Sugar beet pulp is tree hugger friendly, but highly corrosive to metals.

Baloney.

 

[RaydaKub]

Cast iron is the way to go. Sugar beet pulp is tree hugger friendly, but highly corrosive to metals. They use it up here on our roads.
No need to drive a tractor sround fully ballasted all the time.

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Sugar beet juice, aka Rim Guard, is corrosive?? Wow. Better write the company to change their name.

I guess I'd agree that you don't need it ballasted *all* the time. You must be way better at scheduling your chores than I am though. I have no regrets about using washer fluid and leaving it. My dad had no regrets about his loaded tires except for when it rusted out, but Rim Guard didn't exist back then.

 

[300UGUY]

Cast iron is the way to go. Sugar beet pulp is tree hugger friendly, but highly corrosive to metals. They use it up here on our roads.
No need to drive a tractor sround fully ballasted all the time.

The beet juice, sold as Rimguard, is not corrosive. I use my tractor for loader work quite a bit, so the ballast is pretty usefull

 

[300UGUY]

I had a old Farmall H that developed a small rim leak. It went from a small leak to a rusted out rime very quickly.

 

[joemd11]

I don't think beet juice is corrosive. Here in PA during the winter they use some sort of brine liquid to prevent icy roads. That stuff is highly corrosive. I think they are testing some sort of beet juice mixture which is environmentally friendly and non-corrosive to replace the brine. Once that brine dries on your car it is hard to clean off. Gotta love the NE in winter!

 

[Scooby074]

Brine is the devil. Awful stuff. Worse than salt alone. And its being tried here too. As if our cars dont suffer enough :thumbdown: