Looking for 8" diam tires but has to be wide and smooth/slick (1 Viewer)

[alia176]

I'm coming up empty handed so I'm reaching out here. I built a well pump extraction device v1.0 and now on to v2.0. V2.0 needs two wide tires for grabbing a hold of the 1.25" well pipe. One tire will be driven, the second one is an idler tire. In the pic below there are two orange tires (idler) and one black tire (driver). V1.0 did kinda ok job of grabbing the pvc pipe but there's no way enough traction was happening as we pulled up the pitless adapter pipe then hit PVC pipe. So, the mission was aborted and I'm back to the drawing board.

Summary: I have plenty of power, but not enough traction to grab the 300' of pipe + 4 conductor cable + 50lb of pump + 300' of water column in a 1.25" diam pipe = which comes to roughly 500lbs +/-. I have the ability to mechanically push against the idler tire into the driven tire with a jack screw, maybe visible in one of the pic below.

Go kart tires seem to be a much larger diameter tire which will make me scrap this whole thing and start over, which I'm reluctant to do.

If you have any leads, let me have them pls. No, I'm not paying anyone to do this work for me or come to my property

 

[WarDamnEagle]

My thoughts. You need to lower the air pressure on the tires to get more traction on the pipe. Unfortunately that probably means you will have to adjust the distance between the tires (closer together). That would be my first suggestion before changing the tires. Other thought is you need both sides to be driven. That probably means you need the same diameter tires on both sides and obviously they will have to turn in opposite directions. Many ways to accomplish that but key will be to make both sides the same rpm.

I don't see a need for wider tires or at least it's not obvious to me what that would accomplish.

 

[alia176]

My thoughts. You need to lower the air pressure on the tires to get more traction on the pipe. Unfortunately that probably means you will have to adjust the distance between the tires (closer together). That would be my first suggestion before changing the tires. Other thought is you need both sides to be driven. That probably means you need the same diameter tires on both sides and obviously they will have to turn in opposite directions. Many ways to accomplish that but key will be to make both sides the same rpm.

I don't see a need for wider tires or at least it's not obvious to me what that would accomplish.

been there, done that

Here's where I got the idea from:

another cool gizmo that's for rent out East

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Those tires don't look any wider than yours but if you want wider, would any of these work?

8" Wheel Tires Archives

ocmonstercarts.com

 

[alia176]

Those tires don't look any wider than yours but if you want wider, would any of these work?

8" Wheel Tires Archives

ocmonstercarts.com

Thanks for the link, let me go see what they have. Something with a square shoulder and a wide tread should do the trick. I'll need to buy two of them.

 

[RHINO]

what your asking for are called turf tires.

 

[DanS HJ-45]

If you have any leads, let me have them pls. No, I'm not paying anyone to do this work for me or come to my property

I have nothing to add, other than I absolutely love this. Figure it out please, and then let me borrow it if you think it'd handle a 620' well. .

My neighbor build something that works, I'd ask him about it but it sounds to me like you're on the right track.

Dan