Rimguard vs. Methanol

[Duffster]

Calcium Chloride isn't a hazardous material either.

 

[IslandTractor]

Calcium Chloride isn't a hazardous material either.

Yeah but you cannot feed it to livestock.

 

[Duffster]

Yeah but you cannot feed it to livestock.

You sure about that?

It is a salt.

 

[DiezNutz]

Yeah but you cannot feed it to livestock.

Why would you want to feed either thing to livestock, really...

Last thing anybody wants after spending all that $$ on RimGuard is to come out one morning to find the tractor tires flat and the cows all sloshed on beet juice.

 

[Johnny_B]

Calcium Chloride isn't a hazardous material either.

I never said it was a hazardous material, but it is hazardous. It is a matter of semantics. It isn't hazardous at the levels we are typically exposed at (infact water is loaded with sodium and calcium ions as sodium and calcium chlorides, but calcium chloride can be considered toxic, it just depends on the dose (concentration and exposure duration). All chemicals are toxic. I could make an easy argument that oxygen is toxic and could be considered hazardous...

Anyhow, sorry to high jack this thread...I'll shut-up now. Bottom line in my opinion, not much of a difference in environmentally friendliness between WWF, Rim Guard, or Rimguard.

 

[IslandTractor]

Bottom line in my opinion, not much of a difference in environmentally friendliness between WWF, Rim Guard, or Rimguard.

I know that I would much rather dump thirty gallons of beet juice or diluted methanol into my garden than a concentrated CaCl solution. Recall that the Romans salted Egyptian fields as a punishment.

 

[TripleR]

I know that I would much rather dump thirty gallons of beet juice or diluted methanol into my garden than a concentrated CaCl solution. Recall that the Romans salted Egyptian fields as a punishment.

"There is a popular misconception that when Rome conquered Carthage, they salted the farmlands to prevent anything from growing. In fact, this is a 20th century myth which has no bearing in reality. When the Romans conquered Carthage, they went from house to house capturing slaves and slaughtering the rest. They burnt the city to the ground and left it as a pile of ruins. This resulted in the loss of a great deal of historical information on Carthage, which makes the study of it difficult in modern times."

 

[gauthier]

Prove it.....:laughing:

 

[Wacky]

"There is a popular misconception that when Rome conquered Carthage, they salted the farmlands to prevent anything from growing. In fact, this is a 20th century myth which has no bearing in reality. When the Romans conquered Carthage, they went from house to house capturing slaves and slaughtering the rest. They burnt the city to the ground and left it as a pile of ruins. This resulted in the loss of a great deal of historical information on Carthage, which makes the study of it difficult in modern times."

Interesting.

 

[Wacky]

I have the Methanol mix. At least that is what I was told they put in there. I have just my 2 rears filled. Is there anyway to see if it is what they claim they put in there. When I traded the wrecked GC for this new one I just had them switch the rears. Since they were not very honest with me from the get-go, I just want to make sure it isn't calcium chloride. By the way which is more expensive?? I am sure whichever is cheaper is what I have.