Some Cub Progress
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:26 am
Things are starting to come together again kinda. The last year has seen a dearth of projects that I could do .. just a bunch of things that had to be done - but not by me anymore. Well that's life I guess.
Anyways .. a while ago I had to take Ellie's front shoe off because the tire was well not so much good anymore - took it to my local tire shop to see if they could put a patch in the sidewall to kind of keep the tube inside the tire. Oooops ... not much chance. So I ordered up a new tire to match the other shoe. The new Tri-Ribs will be for another Cub in time. I wanted one of the less aggressive agricultural type tires and a 5 rib seemed to be a good fit for me, so I went with that. Tried to get an original tire but those aren't available. Ended up with a Carlisle Agri Implement tire.
While they had the old tire/rim waiting for the new one, they sandblasted the rim and then primed it for me. I thought that was kinda cool. It took me a while to finally get the energy (COPD/PF/PVH kinda takes all the ooomph out of you ...) to get the tire/rim done and back on Ellie. The other day, I finally seemed to have it ..
Got the tire all masked up ..
then I hit it with some of NAPA/CMAX - version of CaseIH 2150. 1st coat went on and the next morning the 2nd coat.
For some reason that didn't seem to be enough for me. Seems all those months of no Cub projects just got me antsy so I went back in the pole barn and got a pair of Berlin's Ear Support Braces that I picked up at Cecil's last year.
And that still wasn't enough so I grabbed Rick's Ear Supports as well:
Now I feel a bit better.
Anyways .. a while ago I had to take Ellie's front shoe off because the tire was well not so much good anymore - took it to my local tire shop to see if they could put a patch in the sidewall to kind of keep the tube inside the tire. Oooops ... not much chance. So I ordered up a new tire to match the other shoe. The new Tri-Ribs will be for another Cub in time. I wanted one of the less aggressive agricultural type tires and a 5 rib seemed to be a good fit for me, so I went with that. Tried to get an original tire but those aren't available. Ended up with a Carlisle Agri Implement tire.
While they had the old tire/rim waiting for the new one, they sandblasted the rim and then primed it for me. I thought that was kinda cool. It took me a while to finally get the energy (COPD/PF/PVH kinda takes all the ooomph out of you ...) to get the tire/rim done and back on Ellie. The other day, I finally seemed to have it ..
Got the tire all masked up ..
then I hit it with some of NAPA/CMAX - version of CaseIH 2150. 1st coat went on and the next morning the 2nd coat.
For some reason that didn't seem to be enough for me. Seems all those months of no Cub projects just got me antsy so I went back in the pole barn and got a pair of Berlin's Ear Support Braces that I picked up at Cecil's last year.
And that still wasn't enough so I grabbed Rick's Ear Supports as well:
Now I feel a bit better.