Looking for advice on brand & type of rear tire for this 1955 International 100 Farmall. Tractor Supply tells me that I need a long bar ag tire for this model.
I'm not fluent on long bar/short bar treads, nor what brand would be best. It's a 11.2 / 10 X 24 size. I've attached a picture of what's on there now. Thanks.
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Any tire the correct size will work although the long, 45-degree bar like what you have now would be the most "correct" for that vintage of tractor. In the 11.2-24 size you can get this, a short bar/long bar style, or a 23-degree long bar style and any of them will will work just fine. This is also a very common size for tires designed for use on center-pivot irrigation systems. These will be cheaper but will have fewer bars and may not ride as nicely or wear as evenly in tractor use.
 
I'd go with Firestone 23 degree bar tires. As long as you don't have lots of added ballast they will not tear your lawn up, don't make quick stops and starts and you will be fine. I have Firestone 23 degree bar tires on both the Cub Cadet garden tractors I used to mow with, they NEVER slipped and tore up the yard. My new Cub Cadet Tank zero turn has turf tires, bet I've got a couple thousand bare spots from the inside tire spinning while turning.
 
I have similar bar-tread tires on an Allis C equipped with a belly mower. They work just fine with minimal turf damage. If you think you will ever work dirt with the 100, I would stay with the agricultural tires.
 
Couple of factors you might want to take into account. First if you?re restoring it for only using in parades and not for ag work, you might want to consider which tire will last the longest and give the best ride on pavement, -or - if you intend to sell it after completing ,getting the most accurate style that was used between 1953-56 would make most sense from a collectors perspective if you want top dollar.
 
I will probably sell it as I discovered they only made 135 of this Industrial model...don't want to take a chance of damaging something that could be of value. So given that, it would appear from a previous post that the 45 degree bar would be period correct in your opinion?
 
Don't let the fact that it is an industrial version scare you. They are a
little beefier given the square front axle and brace to the bell housing.
 
First off, you don't go to Tractor Supply for tractor advise! They don't even sell rear tires for anything bigger than an ATV.

Second off, you're not going to damage anything using the "wrong tires." There is no such thing. Any tire that is the same size as what's on there now will be fine. As an industrial model, it could have come with standard R1 style ag tires, R3 style turf tires, or R4 industrial tires.

Everybody wants to put "Firestone 23 degree radials" on everything. Well, they're just about the most expensive option out there, and unnecessary on a tractor like this that will spend 95% of its time sitting in a barn.

You need to look at what you paid vs. what you can sell the tractor for to determine if tires will raise the value enough, if there's enough "meat on the bone" as it were, to bother putting new tires on. Most of the time it doesn't pencil out. The only way it works is if you paid very little for the tractor, and you can find some sucker to pay premium price for it now. Most of the time you pay too much and most buyers are too savvy/cheap to pay premium price.

Don't sit there thinking you've got some $10,000 gem there because it's "rare." For a rare thing to be valuable, it has to be in demand. You don't see people crawling over each other to get at a International 100 Industrial model. People will get in fist fights bidding up a nice 1456 though, which are not rare at all.
 
What's wrong with the tires that on it? They look better than 90% of the tires you find on old tractors.
 

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