Implement rims?

[Boowah]

I've heard that 6 bolt wheels are hard to find.
(Rims are not wheels, wheels are not rims). But
every 6 bolt wheel I have interchanges with each
other. Front wheels on all of my tractors have the
same pattern- Case, IH, Oliver, MM, and all of my
plows are all the same, just the width changes.
Seems to me they should be everywhere.

I didn't know we were all discussing Critical RIM theory

 

[caterpillar guy]

I find used wheels or rims depending on what I'm using and where i'm using them at consignment auctions some of them I have bought for as little as 11 dollars apiece and for as high as a hundred for 6-8 of them. Mostly bought old Dayton rims and tires. Most of them also had tires on them for these prices. I watch to see if they bring more than a new tire or not. New tires for some of the bigger sizes like the 16.5x16.1 for the fertilizer spreader are about 3-500 each just for the tire no wheel/rim with it. So If I find one for less.I usually buy it . Like I found a pair of similar size from off an old Massey combine or larger tractor with 4 ribs worn down a good bit but a good tire. Used it on the fertilizer spreader last spring. Tractor or combine junkyards will want more money for a tire wheel/rim combination so just the wheel/rim will cost less. you can also get reinforcing rings for the wheels that you can weld into the back or front of the wheel for a support. And Heywheel has centers you can both drop in or press in to make new centers in old wheels or replace centers if broken. I have done all of the above with wheels and rims. I had an 8 bolt tractor wheel that had cracks in the bolt holes and cut out the old bolt circle smoothed up and welded in a reinforcing ring so the bolts were not changed for longer ones. Was back on the tractor till the tire blew out . Now I need some 16 inch tires. I use old pickup tires when I can find them also. I've used both versions of the Heywheel centers the drop in one and the press in one. the press in one when done will look just like it was done from the factory. I have made centers for some wheels like a set of old Manure spreader wheels with the bolt holes broke out. bougth them for I believ it was like 400 for 5 tires and wheels with some of the holes broke out.

 

[Jim.ME]

I didn't know we were all discussing Critical RIM theory

It doesn't look like we had been discussing it, until you just brought it up. This thread stopped in 2014. toolz was last seen in 2018. Looks like maybe "Similar Threads" got you.

 

[Boowah]

It doesn't look like we had been discussing it, until you just brought it up. This thread stopped in 2014. toolz was last seen in 2018. Looks like maybe "Similar Threads" got you.

thanks for the info, how do you know all this stuff?

 

[Jim.ME]

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[Jim.ME]

thanks for the info, how do you know all this stuff?

Just check the date a thread/post was made. Clicking on one's avatar tells when they were last seen (other than those who turned it off in their preferences). Similar Thread is at the bottom of the page, below the active thread. Those are threads of varying age the computer program has decided are similar to the thread above them.

 

[Tx Jim]

Another excellent example why old threads should be available for viewing but locked to any more replies.

 

[Boowah]

I agree. I do appreciate the fact that I can learn from these postings. It isn't necessary for me to post to these old posts, and I can see now that I should have checked the dates. Good lesson for me today. Thanks!!

 

[Boowah]

I will continue to research my newest project, a John Deere 6 disc tiller with rubber tires and a place for a Hydraulic cylinder. I don't find a serial number tag so far but still looking, anyway thanks for the posts responses. Boowah in South Ga.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I will continue to research my newest project, a John Deere 6 disc tiller with rubber tires and a place for a Hydraulic cylinder. I don't find a serial number tag so far but still looking, anyway thanks for the posts responses. Boowah in South Ga.

You should start a new thread asking about it in Implement Alley.

Serial number will not help in finding the year of manufacture like it does with a tractor, if that's what you're looking for.

 

[Tx Jim]

I will continue to research my newest project, a John Deere 6 disc tiller with rubber tires and a place for a Hydraulic cylinder. I don't find a serial number tag so far but still looking, anyway thanks for the posts responses. Boowah in South Ga.

Here's some photos taken from JD disk tiller parts catalog concerning rims for tires & hyd cylinder brackets. IIRC no serial #s were offered on older JD implements.

 

[paul]

something still missing in the nit pick on the grammar.

Best I can figure out Toolz said a wheel is a rim and a center which makes a wheel we want to buy, we don’t just want to buy a rim.

But then he goes on to talk about a wheel balancer. Which balances a thing made of a center, a rim, and a tire mounted on it.

So is a wheel just a rim and a center, or is it a rim, center, and tire?

If I ask for a wheel, which am I properly getting now, only the metal or the metal and the rubber? And how would I properly call one vs the other?

I think Toolz didn’t quite get it right either.

Paul