Well this year isnt shaping up to be any better

SVcummins · May 22, 2021

Gotta late start today boy was everything working slick and I was making time rolling sod over was almost 3/4 of the way done on one piece and was thinking boy Ill get started with the power harrow today it wont be so bad and then this happened. Found something in the bottom of the last Furrow . Gotta new tire coming should be here and on Tuesday about 800$ with new tube and service call

BillinCentralMO · May 22, 2021

Bummer ! That hurts. Hope you are rolling again soon.

SVcummins · May 22, 2021

Now Ive got to try and figure out how to do it and work at the same time scheduled more than enough time to do the job. Yesterday was a train wreck spent all day working on a dorf so I could get to the job and lost a day there

rustred · May 22, 2021

Is that those Chinese tires you were talking about a while back? That sure looks like a blow out. Its not a cut.

SVcummins · May 23, 2021

They are alliance brand that came on the tractor when I bought it they are four years old now . I am not the least bit impressed they are cracking in front of the lugs from being used on heavy tillage I suppose they could be rotten already . Another case of cheap isnt good . Going back on with another cheapie galaxy brand I hope the pos lasts better than this one

SVcummins · May 23, 2021

Well 16 years ago galaxy was good hopefully it still is
Galaxy

casecollectorsc · May 23, 2021

Have bought 6 Firestone Super All Traction II tires the last two years...less than $600 apiece for 18.4x34. Dis-mount and mount them myself. Last one was this spring on my 2470 4wd...front inside tires are new.

Richard G. · May 23, 2021

SV, I bought a Galaxy and had it put on my 8N years ago. Tractor gets used all the time.
I can see no wear on it at all.
Even the size numbers on the tread are still readable and it is 8 ply rated.
Will definitely buy again when I need one.
Grandpa Love likes them also.

MF#1 · May 23, 2021

I feel your pain. Early 2000's my Dad and I were bushoggin a locust patch and I felt a light spray of water. I had hit an old stob right in the center of the rear tire and it let go. I hobbled it back to the yard with calcium water squirting out. Decided to replace both, they were only about 23 years old, came with the tractor new in '78. Plenty of lug left but dry rotted:-( Things wear out. BTW, your plowing looks great!

SDE · May 23, 2021

After I the F-20 looking good, I drove it out into a field and took a picture of it. When I got it home I noticed a break in the sidewall. I assumed that I had snagged it on something. Two years later the other tire did the same thing, only this one was spraying me with every rotation of the tire. I determined that even though the tires looked like new,they weren't strong enough to tolerate the CC that was in them. I just run air in them now and they are holding up just fine. I bolted a boot into the second one and they aren't very noticeable at all.

rusty6 · May 23, 2021

(quoted from post at 22:18:56 05/22/21) Well 16 years ago galaxy was good hopefully it still is
Galaxy

I had a Galaxy rear tire put on the Cockshutt 40 back in the 90s, which to me still feels like a new tire

Looking good. The new Goodyears I had put on the rear of 2090 back about 2006 are showing some worrisome breaks in front of some of the tread bars. The best are the old Goodyear dynatorques on my Magnum. Still originals from 1992 and not a crack or break in them. Short on tread after 8400 hours though. They used to build tires to last. Not much anymore though.

rustred · May 23, 2021

here is my experience from couple weeks ago. i put new titans on farmall 560. thing is they came with chinese tubes. i said i dont want chinese anything. he says well we have pretty good luck with them. i said we shall see! so anyhow went to work in field and 10 hrs later i could here pissss when i stopped for lunch. so anyhow got the step son out here to give me a hand. we put the old goodyear tube back in and all is good so far with the other side. BUT when you feel each tube the chinese tube is thinner and what happened is there was a really thin spot and it just let go. step son says it will be warranty. but the thing is the tubes are junk in my world and now i wont put calcium in unless i use the original tube in the other side. thing is he said he could only get chinese tubes for those tires , now that is really odd. they are 15.5x38. humm.

Destroked 450 · May 23, 2021

I put a set of Alliance on the rear of my 4000SU about 8 years ago, it doesn't do any tillage, just work in the poultry barns and some tedding and raking hay
The tires are showing a lot of dry cracking between the lugs and I'll be lucky to get a couple more years out of them
Thinking about trying a set of BKT's

This was a new Good Year that only had been used baling 5 acres before the sidewall blew last year
Hoping this year goes better tire wise

TimWafer · May 23, 2021

Uggh! That would sure get you steamed. :evil:
I hope if its something you ran over you can find and remove it from the field. Hate to see it happen again.

SVcummins · May 23, 2021

Im sure its a cut a cut because it goes clear into the tread

David Snipes · May 23, 2021

If you hunt around long enough you can find American made tubes. I had a Firestone tire dealer try that on me, fortunately I had done my homework and knew that Firestone still made some tubes in the US. I made them dig around the warehouse until they found a pair.

I still have the original Bridgestone rear tires on my 1977 Kubota when my family bought it new. They are in very good shape and were always parked outdoors.

SVcummins · May 23, 2021

New Firestone 600$? Last I looked they wanted 1700.00$

SVcummins · May 23, 2021

You can see how far out the first bottom on the left side is if i could get that problem fixed this plow would do a nice job again

RBnWA · May 23, 2021

OUCH that hurts in more ways than one. RB

casecollectorsc · May 23, 2021

Firestone Super All Traction II $600....out the door. WW Tire, Watertown SD.

SVcummins · May 23, 2021

Yes it really does

BarnyardEngineering · May 24, 2021

You'll be back in 4 years complaining about the Galaxy tire.. The one we've got on the 756 isn't that old in the grand scheme and 10 years ago it looked like it was 50 years old. Dry, chalky, weather checked. The Firestone Field & Road on the other side is twice as old and the rubber is still in great shape. Unfortunately they don't make Field & Road tires anymore. Your only hope is finding some NOS in a warehouse.

SVcummins · May 24, 2021

Wouldnt that be something to find some old gum dipped tires
nos. I guess thats a hundred bucks a year so .

Texasmark · May 24, 2021

Man you run a mean plow. Love your soil.

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