Shower Leak

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Originally posted by offgrid

Would you winterize your rpod with beet juice? 😝

Beet juice is some nassty stuff.  It’s denser and freezes at a lower temp than pink antifreeze but I didn’t want my tires that heavy anyway (I’d have to have a second tractor to lift ‘em) and it’s not that cold here. Lots of ppl around here use auto antifreeze but you can kill your pooch if it leaks and he drinks it. Besides, RV antifreeze is really cheap and so am I 👍

A couple years ago, I ran one of the front tires through a narrow erosion slot. It squeezed the tire such that it broke the bead, and viola, flat tire. I was about a 1/2 mile from home (long driveway), and had to improvise to get enough air in the tire to get it home. End result was that the tire got damaged enough that it was time for some serious action. So I took it to a local tractor place, and they filled it with foam rubber. That dang rubber is about twice the weight of the water that we'd been previously using (we don't get hard freezes here, so water is "good enough". However, it made the tire 100% flat proof, and I liked the extra weight enough that I had it done to the other front tire as well. I'm saving up my $$ to do it to the rear tires. Only issue will be the tires will require some extra help getting them off/on; they will be very heavy.