Holy Cow Bat Man. Tire blow out!!!

Purchased 2 new implement tires for the rear. Just a note for you guys buying running gear for hay racks.

Shy away from the 14 inch rims if you can. These 14 inch tires cost about $60 each. If they had been 15 inch rims the tire are about $20 less each.

That sort of thing happens on occassion, but we've been running car/truck tires on our hay wagons since before I was born. Just because the tire says it's weight limit is 1500 lbs, that don't stop us. We try to use light truck tires, but if we don't have any around, we use whatever else we have. One brand we try to stay away from is Uniroyal. My dad used to be in the tire biz and the most problems were related to that brand. As far as our tire supply, they come off of my truck, an '88 F150 w/ 235-75/R15. The 16' we try to get old take-offs from work trucks, something like a 7.50-16 truck tire or 235-85/R16. We don't have any 14" rims around, we went to the junk yard and got 15's. You'll find plenty of 5-bolt 15 inch rims there. The only things that we use implement tires on is our chopper, baler, forage wagons, haybine and grain drill.
Donovan from Wisconsin

They had a weight rating og some 1650# each, reducing the load capacity of the hay wagon from six to a bit over three tons (6600lb).

The 11L-15 implement tires and rims now installed are MUCH better.

"Are you getting rich yet!!!!. " No but thats not the point any way. If I wanted to get rich I would for sure do some thing else. But If I make enough for a nice Farmall 656 hydro, that would be nice.

I borrowed a wagon this past weekend to haul about 40 bales of straw that we took off the thresher pile (used my NH 68) since my wagon was already full with what we baled off the field. The wagon has all new wood and paint.

I didn"t know that that all the tires on it were of the "Maypop" and "Willpop" brands.

I was pulling both wagons behind the pickup with the "borrowed" wagon in the rear. I never heard or saw anything until I got to the barn and parked. First thing we noticed is that the rear wagon looked rather empty.. then noticed that the rear right tire was blown out. Luckily, we lost the the load not far from the barn, and it all fell on the side of the road not in it.

I"m doing the right thing and replacing the tube/tire even though it would"ve blown out on the wagons owner without a doubt. (40 bales of straw could"nt have weighed that much)I"m in it for the cost of a tube as I was just going to install another used 14" tire on it.

Oh, and my NH68 baler didn"t miss a knot in 180 bales. We did get a few bales that had the potential to become banana"s when we were in light material, but none ever did.

6 hole implement is 6 on 5.5" (same as toyota 4wd, chev 4wd, nissan 4wd etc)