DIY foam filling small utility tires

[freedomlives]

I called my friend at the autoparts store. He'd never heard of filling tires with foam. He suggested trying Slime as well, and it worked-- well, I slimed the tire, spun it around, turned it around, etc. a bit, and then inflated it, and had to go on a trip for a few days, and it is still inflated. We'll see how it holds up when I get the machine out to turn hay and go through the edges of the field where some thorny bushes got cut.

There are a zillion different types of spray foams here, more than I've seen in, say Home Depot in Atlanta. High expansion, low expansion, cold weather curing, etc. And, there is foam that is used as an adhesive for mounting styrofoam insulation panels onto the side of buildings, so I think this would be the least expanding, so if the Slime doesn't keep things going, I'll be getting some of that.

 

[JerryK]

The trouble with foaming tires, if you don't know what you are doing... and even if you do.. is that foam tires can/may develop soft spots that get worse with time. Not saying all of them do, but once they do, you have to live with the up/down motion every time that that area gets between you and terra firma ....

 

[freedomlives]

It looks like he is in more of a DIY zone, even more so than Missouri. LOL

There probably are all sorts of shops just over the border in Uzhorod, Ukraine (pop. 100K, 3 miles as the crow flies from my house) fixing things cheaply, but that border crossing can sometimes take hours, and then how do you say "foam fill a tire" in Ukranian? :-D