My 8N

[RGR]

I want to load my rear tires, what is the best stuff to use, do
I need a pump, and every other question that goes along with it.

 

[HarryVanderpool]

It's hard for me to answer not knowing your location.
If you live in North Dakota or Wisconsin I'll give you a couple of choices.
If you live in Florida, you'll get a totally different response.
I am in Salem Oregon which is kinda in between, climate wise.
We rarely get much below freezing.
I can't ever remember getting near zero F.
So water with antifreeze is my choice here.
We don't need to have antifreeze mixtures down to 60 below here.
+20 is about all needed.
No problems in 33 years with our 2n.

 

[Bruce(OR)]

Do you desire cheap and heavy or close to the same weight and a bit more money? Cheap and corrosive or more expensive and bleeds red? Calcium is 12.5 pounds per gallon, water is 8.35 pounds per gallon. Calcium is cheap and corrosive. Beet juice is good except when your tire manufacture says it is not compatible.
You might desire to do some research as to what your climate is and the depths of your pocket.
I am a bit north of Salem, Ore. I am northwest of Portland, outside of Hillsboro.

 

[RGR]

Live in Windsor Ontario, across from Detroit Michigan, it can
get a little chilly at times

 

[Richard G.]

We use water and antifreeze here.
I won't put calcium in anything.
Seen way to many rusted out rims beyond repair.
Antifreeze is not corrosive.
Richard in NW SC

 

[Ultradog MN]

I would go with windshield washer fluid.
The fall sales on the stuff will soon be here and you can buy it for $1.25 or less a gal.
WWF is good to about 0 degrees. It won't rust your rims and is not quite as heavy as straight water but close. As for filling your tires, just rig up a 5 gallon bucket with a spigot in the bottom. Hang it on a rafter or tree limb so the bucket is higher than the tire. Lift the tire off the ground and rotate it so the air valve is at 12 oclock and gravity feed it in with a small hose.
When the bucket empties it will self burp.
Will take a while, maybe half a day to do them both but if you are doing something else just check and refill the bucket now and then.
Remember, It will not hurt your tire, tube or rim to freeze solid.
But it will wreck your tire to DRIVE it with a completely frozen tire. Even a tire that has slush inside is okay to drive on as long as it is not frozen hard.

 

[Ultradog MN]

My theory is some guys will complain that they only got 70 years out of a set of rims.
I see rims as an expendable item - like batteries, piston rings, clutches and the tires themselves.
I have CaCl in two of my tractors.
After I rehabbed the rims - sand blast, prime, paint and put in new tubes I pumped the stuff back in.