wow
the dock showed up it's it's the dock dr chop you guys remember him international
1970 this big buzz the one that you're yeah you painted this thing right i did
yeah maybe how is it holding up well they're scratching the paint pretty good down there
um anyways ian came out that's his name and dr chop because my headliner job that i did
failed miserably and you can blame me i don't know
glue i used maybe not very good he's got some cool stuff though let's spray some on
so oh i guess this is it that's it kill it till i pull it down again and then put it back up i
told you this last time what was this said what's up well i appreciate it that's it till next time
oh the next time till next time but it's holding so far i got to get out of here before it falls
alrighty and thanks man i appreciate it that's the dock that's the dock there was a lot of tries but
it took finals we're not going to talk about how we pulled that tire off and put it over here and
grab the new tire and put it on there because that that totally happened actually this is the first
one we tried but the gap between this bead was actually narrower those other ones so we got the
old tube in here aired up we're just gonna let it kind of sit there and stretch this sidewall
out for a while while we do the other tires and then we'll put this on and hope this will work
but yeah we just spent like an hour and a half to get that one it's good though
oh there we go tower number two down we're like 10 hours in we're getting better we're getting
smarter
a couple of these tires have had issues with the beads being narrowed up they put the old tube
that was another one out there and they aired it up real wide so it's pushing the sidewalls
out we're gonna put it outside and let it freeze in the cold weather and see if it cures with that
whip and then we're gonna bring it back in and try it but we're still having some issues but
this one here went on really easy it's still still going but we just kept uh smearing the
slime right along the edge until there was no more air hits and then all of a sudden it's hard to see
so that's pretty sweet now if you look here see how these fire stones these uh bias like that
and then there's radial titans just kind of go
that's the difference these are going to have a lot nicer footprint on the ground and these
lugs are a lot larger obviously it's brand new and those are got some ears on them but
these come standard with taller lugs so we'll see excited look who showed up yeah
you know i'm we're busting my butt out here you guys are like just standing around looking dirty
so
oh look at the snow a couple hours outside but hopefully that new shape that we try to make will
cure so he's going to suck the air out of this tube and then the tires will hopefully be wider
so the bees will see just with right here and here see this right here take a rock and cut the duels
on the previous set of tires and smack that spot right there gonna have to paint that up yeah i
suppose time to go to round two all right we're back at it yeah we uh last tire of the old set
still gotta give this one a seat on the bead his back two are good they're done that one's done
over there gotta bolt the rim back up when we're done with the front and then put the tire on this
one that close to being done we went ahead and jacked in the center of the tractor this time had
some issues trying to jack in the front it's just we just don't have very good blocks that are real
sturdy to be able to attract this heavy from the front even though i'd like to lift the front but
that's something we got to fabricate some stands so since we're going from tubes to
tubeless tires you gotta get different valve stems because the other ones are attached to the tube
so these have a little rubber gasket and it'll seal itself but i still put a little bit of grease
on there that way it uh slides in and doesn't bend the o-ring please put it in here like that
and then put your washer nut on it tighten it up or the o-ring just starts to expand
and hopefully it'll never leak air again let's hope all right tires are on all of them all
eight of them so scott we're going to scale us up yep we've got uh michael here uh field tech we're
gonna drop scales down in front of it and we're gonna roll you up and we're gonna find out what
your front axle load is and what your rear axle load is and then we can fine tune your inflation
pressure perfect yeah and we gotta find out what this tractor actually weighs exactly do you know
we always thought it was around fifty two fifty three thousand you wanna put money on that
what does michael think fifty four five fifty four five okay all right well i'm gonna start it up
straighten it out and then grab it up on a scale and we'll find out what this thing weighs
all right she weighs 48 100 pounds with the third tank of fuel so we're probably looking at
right around that 50 000 pounds it's right 50k that's no liquid
in the wheels so 50 000 pounds it's about what we thought it was maybe a little less
yeah i think um i think you ought to take one of these home i don't know can i check it at
the airport oh no i hate it when that happens all right that's a wrap oh man that didn't that was
no problem at all i didn't hardly what time it did that was like 20 minute jobs yeah yeah three hours
of tire that's right it wasn't that bad you know it started out a little slow but i think at the
end we got we kind of got our groove on right yeah like to nascar type uh changes there pure
perfection at the end there it was pure perfection but anyways yeah well that's good to have you guys
well thanks for having us out so we got the got you converted from bias to radial
yeah so now you're gonna have this really large footprint you'll notice
when we drove out there on the snow you're gonna see this big white footprint as opposed to that
narrow where you're probably riding on the center of that bias tire so all the tires are actually
making cold tire and we got you set up at 15 and and nine psi so you know your inflation pressures
you get minimum inflation maximum traction that's great well good deal yeah yep so we appreciate you
having us out here yeah yeah it's been beautiful guys yeah this is the first time we've seen sun
the whole week it was it was like 70 degrees like two weeks ago yeah i know or 15 but in
snow but no we appreciate it and you know this is an expansion of our optitrack line so this tire
literally we just released this tire about a week and a half two weeks ago so that's that's how new
this is that's really impressive so that's really cool yeah and i noticed on the road uh it was over
what we had before it was definitely smoother and uh we could we got up there at a pretty good clip
i couldn't tell because he was yelling in my ear what to do hold up put it down go to the
new gear in well according to the drone you're going 22. that's about where we're at yep okay
so very nice cool guys thanks for joining us and uh until next time when leg arms heals up
then we'll have to take these off put them back on these leg arms right now right we did this we did
this all without him we survived that's true this is a point in our yeah you know we don't need him
i don't know he he looked pretty sad sitting in that wheelchair though i thought he was
actually having a hard time watching his work and not being a part of it so he'll get better
he'll be back most definitely okay god bless catch you guys later
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