What's new
By:
Filters

Tractor tire brand

Gbkeith You are going to hate the Continentals on the new F450. Great highway tires but they chunk off tread blocks and get pretty beat up with normal use on gravel roads. They also get ZERO traction in mud. Have you ever been stuck in 1/4" of mud on perfectly flat ground unable to move because after 1 revolution of the tire you now have a mud slick? It will definitely happen with those Continentals so be prepared for it. :laughing:
 
Just installed Galaxy Earth Pros a few weeks ago. Seem good. Reasonable through Walmart.
 
1oddtech said:
Its cheaper long term to buy a good set of tires first than two sets of cheap tires later. Good farmers know this.
Click to expand...
I'd be very, very, very surprised if the math on that shit actually pencils out outside of very specific situations like a skid steer that's driving on concrete scooping shit from bins all day or the giant sizes on big tractors where the price difference isn't that big.
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
Gbkeith You are going to hate the Continentals on the new F450. Great highway tires but they chunk off tread blocks and get pretty beat up with normal use on gravel roads. They also get ZERO traction in mud. Have you ever been stuck in 1/4" of mud on perfectly flat ground unable to move because after 1 revolution of the tire you now have a mud slick? It will definitely happen with those Continentals so be prepared for it. :laughing:
Click to expand...
Do they suck enough I'll be able to buy takeoffs for $30-50ea? :laughing:

Are they a 20" size or does the 450 get 19.5s by default?
 
M92PV4U said:
We have Chinese or Taiwanese tires on equipment, they don't seem to rot FAST in our climate. Maybe I don't live in tire rotting climate.
Click to expand...

[486] said:
I dunno about their tires but a lot of other things get dry and crackly way too fast
Click to expand...

One of our scientists told me a long time ago the #1 thing that causes dry rot and cracking is ground level ozone and #2 is sunlight.

Can't do shit about #1 but keeping shit stored under a roof helps with #2.
 
Have Titans on one tractor and Galaxy’s on another, both machines are 5 yrs old and tires show now signs of cracking. Had Titans on a different tractor that’s 12 yrs old and still fine as well.
 
arse_sidewards said:
I'd be very, very, very surprised if the math on that shit actually pencils out outside of very specific situations like a skid steer that's driving on concrete scooping shit from bins all day or the giant sizes on big tractors where the price difference isn't that big.
Click to expand...
I was referencing specifically tractor tires only not on road tires skid steer tires etc. Yes F450 tires are 19.5" rims. I currently have 43k on the factory Continentals and my new Toyo M655's are at the tire shop to be installed next month.
 
Chevy_man said:
Are they going to rot long before they wear? Cheapest option then.

Will you wear them off before they rot? Buy Goodyear and have less problems.
Click to expand...

Firestones on my Deere. Pretty sure they are OEM and its a '92 model. I have plugged them a few times now but I do some demo work with the grapple so I occasionally get into nails and thorns brush hogging. Fronts are BKT F3 and I put slime in them when they did beet juice in the rears.

The Firestones are starting to chunk a little but most of that I blame on grading gravel driveways and pulling hard with the box blade with the rippers down. The rubber is getting a little hard and is starting to chunk off.
 
45acp said:
One of our scientists told me a long time ago the #1 thing that causes dry rot and cracking is ground level ozone and #2 is sunlight.

Can't do shit about #1 but keeping shit stored under a roof helps with #2.
Click to expand...
Could be like the high end auto cross nerds

Wrap tire in cling wrap
Double, double mind you, black bags per tire
Tire bags
Stored in a cool dry place not NOT your garage or basement because electric motors and ozone

Nerds. I was one of them
 
BKT tires are Indian, dot not feather. Not Chinese if we are ranking by third worldibility

Problem with Ag tires is the lack of manufacturing anymore. I have a Deere with backhoe (still technically Ag) that uses 18.4x28. In the 25 years I have owned it, the tire manufacturers have gone from 10 to 2. Firestone (no longer R4 tread) is the only 1st world brand and I have no idea where they are actually made. Samson maybe. And now I found BKT. Goodyear no more, Bridgestone no more.

Problem with R1 treads is they are 6 ply whereas the R4 treads are 10 or 12. Still sliced one last week that had less than a couple hundred miles on it. Bad luck. In the middle of a job for a neighbor in the middle of his drive. Worse luck. No tires available for weeks. Worse still. Remembering wife kept one of the old tires for a planter - using it as a spare to finish job until new tires are located. Win.

Found tires this morning in MA. Shipped to Colorado for only $2300.00. Only? Win? Last two of only 3 in that size in the US. Definite,but expensive, win
 
XtremeJ said:
Could be like the high end auto cross nerds

Wrap tire in cling wrap
Double, double mind you, black bags per tire
Tire bags
Stored in a cool dry place not NOT your garage or basement because electric motors and ozone

Nerds. I was one of them
Click to expand...


And I was the tard that showed up with 4 used 255/50/16 BFG Drag Radials mounted on my obnoxious 72 Camaro that would turn faster laps than those guys while doing it all wrong. :lmao:
 
XtremeJ said:
BKT tires are Indian, dot not feather. Not Chinese if we are ranking by third worldibility

Problem with Ag tires is the lack of manufacturing anymore. I have a Deere with backhoe (still technically Ag) that uses 18.4x28. In the 25 years I have owned it, the tire manufacturers have gone from 10 to 2. Firestone (no longer R4 tread) is the only 1st world brand and I have no idea where they are actually made. Samson maybe. And now I found BKT. Goodyear no more, Bridgestone no more.

Problem with R1 treads is they are 6 ply whereas the R4 treads are 10 or 12. Still sliced one last week that had less than a couple hundred miles on it. Bad luck. In the middle of a job for a neighbor in the middle of his drive. Worse luck. No tires available for weeks. Worse still. Remembering wife kept one of the old tires for a planter - using it as a spare to finish job until new tires are located. Win.

Found tires this morning in MA. Shipped to Colorado for only $2300.00. Only? Win? Last two of only 3 in that size in the US. Definite,but expensive, win
Click to expand...

This is why I keep a bunch of good old spares behind my hayshed. I always have an option to patch shit together and keep going. I also have a couple new pairs of different rear tractor tires and some fronts as well as 3-4 sets of new pickup tires in a shipping container. Might not be a "cool" dry place, but it's a dry place out of the sun at least.
 
Looks like I need to start shopping hard for replacement rears. I caught a lot of thorns last weekend brush hogging and had a flat rear. I have been fighting a couple sidewall leaks that I can't find already..

Anyone have any experience with the BKT TR135? Any experience with Simple Tire?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Back Refresh