Rear tires

Dale c mi · Jul 19, 2016

What up with these tires? Seen them on a couple of tractors at the county fair today. Road tire? Pulling tires? Field tires?

IAtractorKid · Jul 19, 2016

New idea...mix between a field tire and road tire. Will last longer on parade queens and tractor drives but still useable in the field. Typically what Titan is donating to FFA students for their restorations now.

Gary from Iowa · Jul 19, 2016

I believe those tires work best for road travel, however, members of the FFA (high school) are given these free if they restore a tractor for a FFA project. Anyway that is what the students tell me here in Iowa.

Gambles · Jul 19, 2016

Those tires are given to FFA/4H students who are doing a tractor restoration by the Titan Tire corporation. The application for these tires must be submitted directly to Titan by the FFA or the 4H instructor. Titan gives away about 1000 sets of tires every year to FFA/4H members. When you fill out the application, you specify if the restored tractor will be a tractor used for farming or for parades. If you specify farming, you get the regular tractor tires. If you specify that it will be a parade tractor, you get the tires pictured above. They are specifically made to be a smooth runner for the tractor road trips or parades.
How do I know this? My son actually got a set of the above tires from Titan for his tractor that he is restoring. He got both the front and rear tires, but not the tubes. Overall, it probably saved him about $1200 on his restoration.

Mike M · Jul 20, 2016

Not a new idea at all. The really old tractors in the 1940's ? with rubber tires had a variation of those. I had always heard them referred to as sled runners ! Likely because you do not have very good traction with them.

Gambles · Jul 20, 2016

Back in the early 80s, I was fresh out of vo-tech mechanics school and dad bought an International H from a neighbor who had it sitting out in his field for about 5 years without a can over the exhaust. The two rear tires were the type that you are probably thinking of. In other words, it had a type of bar that connected all the treads together completely around the circumference of the tire. Once of the rear tires was rotted away, but the other was good. (We still have the tractor. I overhauled it after we purchased it and it still runs good. I could take a photo of the tire and post it, but....) We replaced the rotted rear tire with a Farmland 100. For those of you who don't remember, Farmland was our local coop (remember the brand Coop?) and the Farmland 100 was a good tire without a warranty.
ANYWAY, whenever the tires had to do some hard pulling in loose dirt or mud, the Farmland tire would dig in, but the connected-bar tire would always break loose. Really, the only good thing about the tire was driving the tractor in road gear, as it was a lot quieter than the Farmland tire with the regular bars.

dhermesc · Jul 20, 2016

Nice of Titan to support 4H that way. Haven't heard of anyone else doing this.

ss55 · Jul 20, 2016

Dad had a 1947 JD B with those tires, I think the brand was Firestone. If I remember right, they had long bars and short bars and they all connected into a bar from the opposite side.

Benj R · Jul 20, 2016

Is this the tread pattern you are referring to?

Mike M · Jul 21, 2016

Yep. Sled runners is what the locals always called them.

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