922 new tires after 20 years

You won't know what to do with all that tread. The smooth tires were acting as a torque limiter.

Nice sure could use a set for mine got focus on getting it to run right first are machines look very similar

Norm R2,22 -- trying to flip the old bald tires over is great fun because there is nothing to grop your hands with.

dblaz18 -- the tires are still common and easy to get a hold. you need new valve stems 6K0249 which are for the 5/8 hole in the rim. i had 2 rims with the bigger holes and i just wleded them over then redrilled to 5/8. did a little fileing and buffing to make sure the rubber on the valve stem didn't get damaged. also get the cat o-rings because they are big then what the tire sotre will sell you.

i got the tires mounted, then had a problem with the one snap ring. it must have shrunk over the years because the o-ring would pop out when carry something heavy. a little welding and the problem was corrected. after 10 years i can remove the wooden blocks in the loader shed because the right rear tire would always go flat. the wooden block saved it from going to low and popping the bead.

thansk
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nice work there. funny i have a set of block's about the same on the same back tire lol, but with that price i will have to find some not so good used ones as that about all i got money for. your loader has to do real work so it need some good shoes all my dose is unload junk but it's getting really good at that.

mog5858 -- i have bought used or fixed up to look like new tires in the past and of course i got the short end of the stick. these new ones came from edmonton to winnipeg then to thompson. i paid $718.59 each for galaxy L2 power traction tires. then you add the tire tax, pst and gst to the price up there. the o-ring and the valve stems came out of the usa. the valve stems are pricey ($45.00???each) but i knew they would fit in the hole in the rim. the o-rings being extra big were about $20.00 each plus shipping and taxes and duty too. 20 years ago i paid about the same price for new tires for the loader.

today i took the old bald tires and with other tires that have side wall cuts from the days when i did scrap metal professionally. i whipped up some tire drags to have fun in the snow. recycling at it's finest, lol.

thansk
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the test for the new loader tires was gathering scrap from the track bed. it is the usual story with any jobs that are bidded. a fellow from the south comes up here as the lowest bidder thinking he is going to make lots of money on a quick and simple job. he ends up like all the other contractors before him going home with his tail between his legs and a mess left behind. over the last 20 years i have cleaned up the scrap along the tracks when the line was operating. now that the rails were removed last fall, i get to clean up all the scrap. i needed the new tires on my loader so i could haul heavy loads and not worry about the tire plugs being shot out of the tires due to the extra pressure from the weight.
first i sorted out the mess of rail and then hauled it with the 922 back to the Kingdom for easy loading. the forks on the loader are long ones for when i did scrap metal professionally for 20 years. it was a good jag for weight on the forks and the rear tires did bounce off the ground more then a few times, lol.

thansk
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Hi King,
Is that pile in the background ballast from the track bed or?

old-iron-habit -- the big pile of crushed rock is the governments idea of fixing a problem. they spent 4 years and wasted a lot of money covering the orange tailings from the mining days. if you go on google earth and zoom in on lynn lake manitoba you will see how big the organe pile is. the made the organe tailings look nice with the crushed rock but did not clean up the organe track bed or the organe tailing on higher ground. the rains and spring run off just flow on to the crushed rock and flow in to the river system like it has for 50 years. only the government of manitoba and their high paid engineers could screw up on this.

thansk
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[quote="King of Obsolete"]old-iron-habit -- the big pile of crushed rock is the governments idea of fixing a problem. they spent 4 years and wasted a lot of money covering the orange tailings from the mining days. if you go on google earth and zoom in on lynn lake manitoba you will see how big the organe pile is. the made the organe tailings look nice with the crushed rock but did not clean up the organe track bed or the organe tailing on higher ground. the rains and spring run off just flow on to the crushed rock and flow in to the river system like it has for 50 years. only the government of manitoba and their high paid engineers could screw up on this.

thansk
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Thanks for the explanation. The pile looked huge in the background. Does Canada have their own version of the U.S. toxic Superfund sites. We have had a toxic waste site near here that has been fenced in for 35 plus years now waiting for money for clean up. Guess they figure the buried leaking drums of chemicals won't leach thru the woven wire fence.