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Good way to find cheap tires for old implements?

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Will Herring

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I've got a John Deere KBA and an old 5' rotary mower that have rotten tires on 'em, any idea of where I can go to get some cheap replacements?
 
Most any tire store has a pile of take offs that have lots of implement wear. Trouble is they won't last long in the sun and will crack and split on their own.

Gerald J.
 

Your nearest tire dealer will usually have some used tires, or go to an auto salvage yard. The big problem with finding used tires for old machinery is that quite a few of those older farm implements were equipped with either 14" or 15" tires because those sizes were abundant. Just about anywhere you looked you find decent, used 14" tires, but that is NOT the case anymore. Most cars and light trucks built in the last 20 years or so came on 16" tires, and finding a good, used 14" or 15" tire today is next to impossible. It might be easier to find some used 16" rims that will fit your machines and then used tires will be no problem.
 
A lot depends on the size you need. If they are say a 6.50X15 or 16 then you can run common car/truck tires on them and get by for a long time. I do that on hay rakes, balers and manure spreaders all the time
 
Gerald, I have been doing that way for years but it is getting tougher. This spring I need a new tire for my disc, it had L78 15, A tall skinny tire. All the take offs at the tire store were low profile 60 and 70 series things that were to fat.
 

Don't worry about the tires being too wide for the rim in a low speed situation such as on a disc. I was able to squeeze a pair of used 215-85-R16s onto the front rims of one of my Farmall Hs. The tires work good and look good.

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I found a standard size to radial tire cross chart on the net. Some crossed to common sizes used now, like large rim, low profile. Then head to the junk yard.
 
Just go buy some new imp tires and your tire problems will be over with for the next 20 years. I used to put old car tires on imps but seems I always had flats or blown. Now with new tires, no more problems.
 
You can put car tires on them. Run tubes to fit the tire, and you'll be fine. Try to get matching tires, and try to get ones that aren't too obnoxiously big and/or too stupid looking. Don't get any with knobby or grippy tread, won't look right.

If you want to buy a quality implement tire, your problems will be over for another 30 years, provided you stay out of the ditches and nails.

Remember, as soon as you penetrate and break those cords inside the tire, you're going to have a flat sooner or later no matter if you have a new tube in it.
 
My problem is that the sidewalls rub against the beam that the hub is bolted to. I also have used pickup mud tires on the front of a Farmall M and a MF 165.
 
Please expalin that to me! 20 years and next to impossible to find! Kinda hard not to find them, unless you dont look! Heck, in most cases and good cheapo new tire, 14" or 15" isnt more than 35 or 40 bucks!
 
Tires bring to mind the problem I had on my 1936 Chevy. Man told me(after I explained my 5 flats on the same tire) Your tire and tube is fine, he said, its just the air is showing through. !!!!!!
Ran out of parching Before I realized that he was right!!!!.
LOU.
 
Well, all of our implements are low speed. The only one that I know has smaller tires is probably the mower... And it's the only one I'd worry about blowing a tire on. The discs seem to have a flat tire every 5 years or so...
 
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