Farming expense

john in la · Nov 15, 2019

I'm thinking these things cost a nice chunk of change.
There was about 10 or 12 of these things on the dock this morning when I went to work.
That forklift is about 7 feet tall to give you some size reference.

moresmoke · Nov 15, 2019

The big LSW tires they have been putting on combines and 4wd tractors around here are $10-12k each for just the tire. Rims are extra. 1250-1400 width.

ditchwitch · Nov 16, 2019

Dont think that's gonna fit that forklift. But ive been wrong before

showcrop · Nov 16, 2019

I have thought of painting the price of new tires on the side of them so that customers can get an idea of overhead.

Case Nutty 1660 · Nov 16, 2019

Ag tires along with all of these days are spendy,, I just had two 8 ply 750x 16 implement tires put on my W-5 loader yesterday to the tune of 386.00,, but the first pic here shows a tire off a 400 ton haul truck here,, couple of my friends from MI inspecting it, at the time a new one was just shy of 50K, when the tire in the pic was made it was 35K, I am not happy tire prices never really went back like they should beings the high oil prices from 5-10 years ago made them sky rocket. It got so bad here the local Coal mines started going to people they had sold the ones at the time that were damaged tot he point it was cheaper to replace than to repair back from the people at two to five times what they paid for them and built wind breaks with, the mine would come with replacement tires and swap them out at the ranches and hand them a check to boot, by the way they sell "junk" tires like this for 1200-1500 so you have a idea what they got back and still had the same wind break as before

one of the haul trucks from that mine at work

Traditional Farmer · Nov 16, 2019

Appears the Amish might be on to something.

jacksun65 · Nov 16, 2019

Local big contractor here bought six volvo articulated dump trucks. He was running Cat trucks, had his mechanics take the almost new tires off the Volvo's and put them on the cats. Cleaned up the volvo's and shipped them to florida to some auction. He made over $20,000 not including getting new tires on his trucks.

BarnyardEngineering · Nov 16, 2019

(quoted from post at 05:14:04 11/16/19)
I have thought of painting the price of new tires on the side of them so that customers can get an idea of overhead.

I don't think it would convince them. Everyone is convinced that everyone else is out to shaft them. You're lying when you explain how much it costs to produce or bring a product to them. You're rolling in money and there's no good reason for charging what you charge except for pure unadulterated evil GREED.

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