how many of you have tire pressure gauges they look like this now or they look like this and
you're thinking to yourself well I can check all the tire pressure I want whatever kind of
implement I'm checking on whether it's your vehicle whether a ATV whether it's your lawn
tractor well I'll tell you in my experience these are not the right tire pressure gauges I'm gonna
show you the right tire pressure gauge and I'm gonna show you on my wheelbarrow here and one
thing about wheelbarrow tires well they don't last long just like this one here it's almost
on the end of its life but it's lasted this long because I put the right amount of pressure in it
I'm gonna show you what it says on the side of the tire take a look at that oldie she's
pretty well done but she still holds there and there it is right there do not over inflate and
that's what I find damages most tires is over inflation or under inflation and as you can see
with this tire here I'm gonna switch it out and I'm gonna use the solid rubber ones like
I have on this wheel barrel here at the back next time I see this one going these tires go
on sale I'm gonna switch it out and get rid of the air tire itself but I'm going to show you
something interesting about tire pressure gauges and how you think you're getting the proper air
pressure but you're not so let's take a look okay so here we go right here I've taken all
the air out of the tire now I am gonna try my best to put 10 pounds of air in there well I've
already got 20 see how fast that goes in so there it is right there at 10 now this gauge
here goes up to 220 psi is that the right tire gauge for this okay can you see that right there
we'll try it right there now does that show 10 let me take a look well it looks like 22 to me
let's try a real tire pressure gauge okay ready now let's take a look and see what that says well
I'm looking at that right there there you go just over 20 psi so so here we are right here now we
want to get 10 psi in here how are you going to get 10 psi in there well we got to take out a lot
of air don't wait now we're going to try it again and what's it show this time 12 well as you can
see there is a huge discrepancy between using a tire pressure gauge that is actually way too small
and range to actually get a proper reading and on the second small dial it was a lot more accurate
but I'll tell you something the one like this that only goes to a maximum of 20 that's what you want
now this one here particularly one is a Milton and it's a s9 17 and I bought this because I'll have a
new lawn tractor so I like to have a tire pressure gauge with every piece of equipment and the tire
pressure in the lawn tractor all four tires is 14 so could you imagine using that other tire
pressure gauge like the pistol grip one to try and put 14 in there well I tried to put 10 in and I
got 20 so you know what you'd be way over inflated now these type of gauges are very inexpensive I
think I paid under $10 you know for this and for me this is the way to go I see far too many people
even using a style that looks like this but it'll go up to say 60 or 100 psi well you know it's best
to to have something that you're testing with that isn't at the bottom of the range and not
the top of the range in the middle it is the best I find and on low inflation tires it's a lot more
insensitive like on an ATV that might take say seven pounds well this is the this is the gauge
for you to use I mean for ten dollars I think it's worth it and so many times I've mentioned other
people you know when you put an air in your tires and you're putting it in with a gauge that's way
off range what do you expect like did you really expect to get a accurate reading with the pistol
grip one that I inflated it with so-called 10 pounds when it actually had 20 in there so I
think this is a great value and I've been using these forever they've been making these forever
so they even joined me here today little bit of a demonstration on air pressure and the tires and
how important it is to get the right air pressure for your particular vehicle or lawn tractor ATV
or even a wheel barrel these guys take care come back again let's have some more fun Cheers
you