Kansas4010

Well-known Member
Was watering cattle and got to looking at
the tires on my trailer. I wonder how old
they are. The trailer has been on the farm
a lot longer than I've been around.
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I've always said radial tires were invented so the tire companies can sell more tires. I've got 20 year old bias tires on my Jeep which is still in use.
 
I started in the tire business in 1986. US Royal was being combined with another company and became UniRoyal at that time. Tires look older than that.
 
When I was growing up ,we used a trailer that my Dad and uncle had built in 1948.It would hold around 75 square bales.As long I can remember ,it never had a flat.The tires were new in 1948,and were still on it in 1989,when we had the auction.
A funny story though: in the '70s,we were hauling wood on the highway,pulling it with the 8n.All of a sudden the left wheel popped off:it had stripped all the lug nuts.It was on a 4 lane highway,a big chunk of wood fell off,and the tire/wheel assembly rolled across the road between the on coming cars,never hitting anything!We pulled off to the side of the road,rolled the fire wood chunk off the road and gathered up the wheel and lug nuts. After a 2nd episode,Dad had someone weld the wheel on to the hub.They had used an old car front straight axle,and there were only 5 lug nuts,when with all the weight it hauled,should have been an 8 lug.But-the tires always held up!Mark.
 
One things for sure it?s not a new tire it would be dust . I?ve gotta a tire on my John Deere tool carrier that?s been on there as long as I can remember
 
Dad has a couple of trailers with tires from the 30's. Still say 6x32 or something like that have the white stripe were the tread is worn off in the middle. They were that way when I was a little kid. I'll be 60 in Feb. They are old cotton or rayon tires. Dad says some of them are cotton some of them say rayon on the side wall. Grandpa used to haul the D-4 cat with the plow behind to do custom plowing in the 40's and before with it. Used the doodlebug to pull the trailer much like a semi. The front tongue set on the rear axle of the doodlebug. The deck would tilt to load and unload the cat.
 
I remember back in the day when BF-Goodrich T/A radials first came out. I thought they'd look good on my 76 Trans Am, so I bought a set. Very expensive tires, soft rubber compound suppose to improve handling characteristics . With the tires I had on it before, I could go through just about any curve 10 miles per hour faster than posted. With the Goodrich radials that number went up to 25mph. They came with a 20,000 mile warranty, but for some reason I only managed 12,000.

JD
 

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