Anyone have Solid tires for your splitter?

I’ve got 4.8-8 tires on my splitter and I’m tired of having to air them up all the time. Anyone have a line on getting some solid ones? I’ve got a solid tire on my wheelbarrow, but it won’t fit the splitter so it needs a different style.
As a side note I don’t pull it on the road so nothing to worry about there.

 

no I don't but if you have to air them all the time, have you considered sliming them? It works great on my yard mower. (dam hawthorne tree)

 

Or just throw a pair of those pre-slimed tubes in them...those work pretty well.
Wheelbarrow Self-Sealing Inner Tubes (6" and 8")

 

8 in. Heavy Duty Solid Rubber Tire with Steel Hub

 

Thought about the slime tubes. I’m thinking my trouble is from sitting on the gravel/dirt floor and sinking in with the frost thaw we get around here. The tires just dry rot even the one that already has a tube.
Will the slime work on dry rot in the side walls or tube?
I’m half tempted to pull the tires and weld some rings onto the wheels to make steel wheel out of them and deep six rubber all together.

 

I’m going to have to see what size the “axle” is on it.

 

I don't think it would work directly on dry rot tires, I guess it depends on how bad the dry rot is. I would think tubes would work though
until they rot out so bad the tube pokes thru?

 

I just bought a can of tire slime and problem solved. I filled all of my equipment that uses small tires. Riding mowers. stump grinder, splitter, wheel barrow and my wagon that I take to the mountains. No more issues.

 

Steel Wheels - Amishcraft.com

 

I park mine on 5/4 treated deck boards. Been 6 years now on same tires.

 

The splitter runs 14" tubeless tires, but the tires are the only suspension the axle has so I only run 8 PSI in them. To avoid having flats all the time I had tubes put in each tire.

 

Have you considered having them foam filled?

 

DIY?

 

Around here any tire/ag shops can’t/won’t foam fill a tire that is cracked, leaks out before it sets. The 2 tires I had done on the log arch were pushing 80 pounds each after being filled plus it cost $75 per tire. I think Fix-a-Flat would be the best alternative. Used it on my old lawn tractor for 15 years.

 

I’ve thought about that. Slow moving off road tire that’s no good anyway, I think why not

 

I had the same thought after I posted it as a joke...who knows...might work!

 

People have done it. It works, for low speed stuff.

 

Slime will work on dry rotted tires that leak otherwise. Low speed stuff only again...

 

I had thought about trying solid tires in the past.
If i ever transported the splitter anywhere, it went onto a trailer.

I also have messed with a few tires in the past that leaked air.
What i learned over time with using slime, is if you use it, you need to spin the tires
at a decent speed every now and again or else that stuff settles to one side.