Buckles Blog: Power Units #11

Saturday, April 12, 2008

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Anonymous said...: A good example of why the shows put duals on those Doodebug tractors. Railroad yards were notorious with broken glass, nails and other junk metal objects, so the show had to move and if thet blowed one of the tires they could keep right on getting the job done.; 12 April, 2008 08:44
Anonymous said...: Ringling used single balloon type tires on their wagons for one year, and made the switch to the duals the next year. These where put on all the heavy wagons (seat lumber, poles,and light dept). With the single tire, they would rip the side wall and down the wagon would go. But the big problem they had was that they would have to lift or jack the wagon back up to change a tire. Where with a dual wheel set- up, they could change the outside tire by rolling the inside tire onto a block and change the outside tire without having to take it off the wagon. Ringling only used the old hard rubber tires on the smaller wagons. I am sure they wanted to use as much of the same type of hubs,spindles and bearings as they could to keep the parts a little easier to manage.
P.J.Holmes; 12 April, 2008 16:38
Bob Cline said...: It might have been posted on Buckles blog a good while back, but someone told of changing many of these tires on a daily basis. Most of the damage came from the loading and bouncing on the flats while loaded.
Bob; 12 April, 2008 17:03

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