The Bovine Bugle

When our tractor needs new tires, the "garage" comes to us

With the farm settling into winter mode, we become very dependent on our loader tractor. We use that tractor to feed the round bales, clean the freestall barn, load the compost for spreading, bring sawdust to the barns to bed down the animals, and plow snow. If the loader tractor goes down for any reason, we have to hustle to get it back in operation again. Today we replaced the front tires on that tractor since one of the tires had been losing air, and both tires were pretty worn.

A company in St. Albans, Wood's Tires, has a mobile unit that will travel to farms to replace tires on all types of farm equipment. My dad thought that instead of us taking both tires off the tractor and bringing them in to be replaced, we should just have to mobile unit come up here and replace them. That sounded good to me.

The man arrived at the farm a little after 7:30, and by 9 o'clock he had both new tires on and the tractor was ready to go. We won't have to worry about getting up in the morning and finding a tractor with a flat tire.

After our morning walk, I headed back to the barn to scrape out the barn with the loader tractor. And after lunch, I loaded and spread several loads of compost on a section of pasture. The new tires seemed to be holding air fine, and the better traction made it easier to get in and out of the compost windrow when loading the spreader.

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Posted by Blogger Chris at November 8, 2005 04:30 PM