On Jul 27, 11:49*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:59:51 -0600, "SteveB"
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I just bought a very small trailer to use behind my ATV for farm use. *Low
speed. *It has 4.00/4.80-8 tires on it. *They are a little dryrotted.
Would
you get some tubes and put them in there, or just get new tires and use
them
tubeless? *Trouble I have with tubeless tires is half the time they're
flat,
and they can be a booger to seat the bead. *I put some Slime in there, and
once they seal, they're pretty good to go. *My local tire place would
probably put the new tubes in there for the price of the tubes. *I do
business with them, and they usually do flat fixes for free anyway.

Steve

The last time I needed tires for my boat trailer it was cheaper to buy
a tire and wheel from a trailer place than buying a tire and getting
it mounted. Even Northern Tools beats that tire/mount price and we
have a trailer manufacturer who beats NT.

I live in a small community where good deals are a way to keep customers. *I
go to Discount tires because they have fixed about half a dozen flats for
me, and some small ATV remounts where they wouldn't seal, and they just wave
you off when you go to pay. *Of course, I go back when I need tires, and
they have that on record.

I have to go to the big city in the next couple of days, so will take one
and see. *But yeah, it'd be nice to just put two new ones on there, but at
the lowest cost. *I just use this to haul junk, rocks, limbs, sand, etc, so
it doesn't have to be that great.

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The first time I have a flat on such a tire it have a tube put in.
You are not talking about buying the Taj Mahal and the minor cost is
well worth the avoidance of having _another_ flat. Done it on 3 tires
thus far (may have been more) and had no more flats on any of them.

Harry K