Thread: Small equipment tyres always flat- solutions?

Originally Posted by Fatso

I got myself a Ryobi 18v battery op electric hand type pump and just pump em up until next time . W tire falls to bits just get a newie from Bunnings , not much you can do with the junk we have to deal with .

Was going to mention one of those battery tire inflators - I’ve got the Ryobi one too and it’s a cracker for things like that.

This is the only wheelbarrow tyre that I have that doesn't go flat, everything else is crap. No brand on it and I have no idea how old it is. The wheelbarrow had holes in it when we acquired it with the house 18 years ago but it still works as a woodbox.

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Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Are such things available?

yep,

Yep I'm well aware that the problem is that the tyres are made in china and are therefore nothing but crap that lasts long enough to be sold and taken home. My two builders wheelbarrows are about 35 years old and until the original tyres perished a few years ago had hardly ever had a flat. Since replacing with what was available, flats are commonplace. All the other equipment pretty much has the crap chicom tyres it came with so have flats all the time. One significant factor against buying solids is that they will almost certainly come from the same damn place. If decent non-chicom tyres are available in sizes like 6"x2" please let me know where I can buy them.

Have the same issue with the cement mixer at the farm
Stays in the shed when not in use and every time it gets pulled out, flat tyres
Pump them up, hook it on the tow hitch and within about 200 metres, bang
15psi and they just shred
Dug out a couple of mini rims and tyres
Found an old 35mm axle
Down to Martins trailer spares to see if I can get som hubs to suit tomorrow
Don’t make them like they used to

Don’t make them like they used to....quote

I think they do , they were always crap....still are.

Hi,
I replaced the two original tires and tubes on a lightweight garden barrow we inherited.
Local tyre place got the in for me, yep, Chinese.
They have only been inflated once in the 18 months or so since fitting.
Similar with the 70 year old builder's barrow I refurbished. New tyre and tube stay inflated for years. Both live outside in the yard.
Cheers

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Don’t make them like they used to....quote

I think they do , they were always crap....still are.

I guess one has to identify whether it is a Puncture or general rubber (?) quality.


For general prickles, my Mower bloke slips a piece of heavy (thick) carpet in between the tyre & Tube. Doesn't stop the prickles but does eliminate the punctures.

Sometimes it just pays to chuck a tube that routinely deflates through material quality. Job Done.