Essential tool to have

This is the good stuff here for when you’re going back together. Works wonders...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Permatex...MI8YKg9tfN4QIVnbrACh264gfXEAQYAyABEgJojfD_BwE

 

All 1 in guns are not created equal, I have seen many that will not take off stubborn lugs, both bud and hub piloted. I do my own tire work if I am at home, and have my own service truck, and several ir ! in guns. My little pistol grip with 175 pounds of air behind it will remove them if it has to bust the stud, but I rarely find a need for it on tires, and you have to be careful using it as it will pinch your hand very quick inside the rim.

If I am on the road I would gladly pay to change a tire, IF, and here in Alaska that is a big IF there is someone available.
I carry a tire multiplier kit, that a three year old girl can break the most stubborn lugs loose with and a milwaukii 3/4 in rechargable impact. I just carry an extra battery instead of a charger. The multiplier, while it is great for breaking them loose and torquing them back down is terribly slow for running the nuts off, hence the cordless.
The cordless is rated 1150 pounds in reverse, but only 760 pounds in forward, like all impacts, that is not what it actually puts on the nut. It will usually take them off without having to use the multiplier, but not always.
I have only had to use this thing 3 times, once on the haul road, 200 miles or a little more from anywhere, when I hit a small piece of angle iron with a steer tire, and twice on my log truck only 50 or so miles out, but 30 or so was down a log road, not worth the time to catch a ride out and go back with the service truck.

I have used the setup to help others way more than I have used it on my own stuff, but it has been a life saver.
I also carry and use it much more a GOOD plug kit, over the years, I have used it several times, and even carried them when I ran otr in the lower 48.

 

Mack Camel-back springs required 1600 ft lbs to torque the U-bolts. Chem Leaman had it figured out that they saved hundreds of thousands not replacing broken springs by having us re-torque everything that went thru the re-build shop. engine replacement, 150K mileage check, body work, didn't mater; all re-torqued.

48" torque wrench set to 400# and a 4 and 1/3rd to one torque multiplier, One guy holds the multiplier the other would row the torque wrench switching places for each u bolt nut...

It took under 45 min. once everyone learned the routine.

1984 version of Harbor Freight 1" Chinese built impact using a 1' air hose could torque them but it only did it for 2 or 3 trucks before breaking. After two returns they gave up and we stuck with rowing that @#$%$# torque wrench.

 

Even when you're 25 miles from the nearest asphalt, on a rutted out cow trail of a road, and it's raining to beat the band? The OP is a farmer... Not a Pavement Princess. I know what its like to get off the asphalt and back into the woods, hills, or mountains with a semi. You can not count on someone coming to save you OR even being able to get cell service.

 

My kit has the handle for 1 to 1 ratio too, but I use the cordless impact after I break them loose sooooo much faster and easier.

The scales pads on my log truck requires 1400 pounds torque, I tighten them with the impact then finisg torqueing them with a torque wrench and a 4 to one multiplier.

 

First you say you don't change enough to justify a $2000 gun

Then you say

I only own 1 truck and have a big quincy air comp and a IR 1" impact to do my own tire work. I bought them both used 15-18 years ago. They have paid for themselves many times over.

I'm not a farmer but I can count on 2 hands how many times I have had a tire changed on the road in over 25 years. I don't run OTR though.

 

Most of the farm tires I've had to change away from the shop werent "on the road" either... Rather in a mud hole, snow bank, or rock patch in the middle of NoWheresville, BFE... A big impact is useless without a big compressor to run it. I've yet to find one that plugs into a Current Bush, not from lack of trying... Lol