I have a pair of tires about that size to do on my bobcat mower sometime over this winter. I have new tires and tubes for it. 13 x 5.00-6 I think they are. Tired of fighting with keeping air in them, I think the originals are seeping thru the sidewalls.
Well Lilys Dad, it ain't a snowblower, but I'm right there with ya, fighting these small tires... my son has me goaded into a project I had no intentions of doing with 0* windchills tomorrow, but it's one of those we don't have a choice in.
So I had to replace at least the 1 side on this mower that was chronically bothering me (going flat) last season/ especially the last couple mowings/ so I don't have to fight it/drag it out into the driveway tomorrow. 13 x 5.00-6. I had bought a pair of new ones for it between the last 2 mowings, and being I ain't mowing with it now, I wasn't in a hurry to change them... I bought 4 plys to replace the original 2 plys, and tubes. I probably could have gotten by with just the tubes in the old tires....Between being stiffer 4 plys, and being out in a cold garage, yeah/ it fought me. My backside froze, sitting on the concrete/ even though it's in the attached garage, and I had the ventless heater on full blast,,, a hammer, a prybar, a couple of screwdrivers (I need to get a set of smaller tire spoons. Mine are for doing semi tires) a couple of pairs of vise grips, and a can of fluid film... I did it dry, the first time/ and fought it. (I know better but was trying to hurry and just get it done) Slicking up the beads helps some, besides the tools sliding over to the already spooned over part of the bead, and I'd lose progress.... I had vise grips ready to clamp the rim so as not to lose that progress spooning the bead over... but needed a 3rd hand to put them on when needed....and didn't have it. The first time I did it, it finally went on and I carried it to the big garage to air it up/ and as soon as I went to straighten the stem in the valve hole, "POP!" I must have pinched the new tube about 1-1/2" from the valve as that's where it blew. I bought 2 packs of tubes via ebay, thinking there was 1 tube in each/ but lucky there are 2 tubes per pack.... so I got to redo it.... this time I slimed it pretty good, and it went a little better/ besides the "not" having that 3rd hand... definitely wouldn't have been "as" much of a fight, if it had been warmer out....
and the project "Dad" (me) gets to help with? the kid bought a rental... and due to some renter stupidity, they had a fire yesterday in one of the units,,, this house had previously been split into 3 apartments... the guy in the front unit who's lived there now thru 3 owners had, and caused, the fire in his unit. He put something in a garbage can before it was cooled off.....
but the fire dept busted into the other 2.... and I get to go help him put 3 new doors up and freeze.... gee thanks, FD. (not appreciated)
on the one door, they busted the jamb where the door latches (it opens "out" because the stairs "just" inside don't allow for room to swing inward) and we had to screw that one shut for the time being, yesterday.... we bought a "jamb kit" and hopefully we can just replace that one side of the jamb, where the latch is, til it warms up a bit... he had to order the door for that one anyway..
we gotta at least do that one, and the one to the basement under the storm shelter doors.... the 3rd one is inside the back apt, they busted into the basement then into the back apartment from the basement.... .... there was no fire in either of those....
and we're gonna need my radial arm and table saw... the mower is parked for the winter/stored in front of the saws, for this off season/ so its gonna have to be moved outside for the day..... we'll be back n forth from the rental to my garage and back all day. and I ain't dragging it out of, then back into, the garage... its gotta roll..... so I had to fix that flat like "now"....
