47 degrees in drizzle, .91 inches of rain, thankfully and nice and slow.
Drew, You are just having to much fun,
Ed, I am, but not this morning. Horrible night, woke up at 3am with the right side of my face all puffed out like a chipmunk, my lips were even puffy. I'll be at the dentist at 8am pleading, no way I can last until tomorrow. What is adding insult to injury is that both places I have had tooth problems are on the teeth this dentist put crowns on. It's making me wonder....
Have no idea why my face puffed up but it looks pretty goofy; remarkable how one tooth can have such an impact on the body.
Not going to be a fun day, ok, enough whining.
Kyle, the tire receipt is filed but the bill was about 900 bucks for the tires and mounting all four tires. I think about $380 or so apiece.
I was pleasantly surprised how much grip these fairly aggressive turf tires had in soft sandy soil, but I'm sure if I hit mud anywhere I would not do well. Actually going to do a fair amount of row crow farming (on my tiny scale) with a turf tired tractor, which I sure never expected, nor of course is it optimum, but with 4wd on, I had zero slip.
Almost all the Japanese tractors back then had weird tire sizes, Mitsubishi/Case IH, Iseki, Yanmar, etc. Now 20 years later finding a fit isn't easy; neither of these tires are the oem size. Since my tractor was always turf tired, no problems with rims.
And now a pic of the one that got away. While loading the transporter to bring my farm equipment from PA to NC, we got to the end and my small Case IH simply would not fit on the truck. I was exhausted, 90+ degree heat in middle of move, just couldn't deal with it, left the tractor and mower there and had a friend come pick it up and take it to my church, which needed a small tractor and bush hog. Boy have I regretted doing that later. I had totally renovated this tractor, and the point of all this is I went from turf to ag on the rear without switching rims.
Put nice BKT R1's on it that were clearly oversized but cleared, so I sure wasn't going to get stuck.
Of course if I hadn't given it away, I wouldn't have gotten the little Massey now. But that Case IH's 23hp Mitsubishi engine was the smoothest diesel I've ever experienced.
