Rear Tractor Tires

Flurette Farm · May 9, 2010

Under normal use in average field conditions what are the hours you would expect to get from a new set of (loaded singles) rear tractor tires before losing traction to the point it's more cost & time effective to change them out. Bias or radial?

kyhayman · May 9, 2010

If I get less than 4000 hours out of a set of bias ply with my average use I am not happy.

Cas · May 9, 2010

Depends what average field use is. Last longer
in clay than gravel soil. How much does the
tractor run the roads. One year we contracted
to haul manure for a 900 cow farm. I swear
every time I looked at the tires they had less
thread on them.

Goose · May 9, 2010

I just run them till they fall off. The rear tires on my H Farmall have been there for 47 years that I know of.

Janicholson · May 9, 2010

The softness of the compound, the amount od slippage encountered on tillage equipment, the amount of road use (gravel included, )and the abrasive nature of the soil all make the opinion we give vaguely correct at best. between 3 and 6000 hours (my guess) Jim

vapet · May 9, 2010

Have wore them out at 1000 hours. But thats with 4 miles of pavement between farms and most equipment kept at only one.

old · May 9, 2010

I have some tires on tractor that have been there 20 plus years and they are still doing what I need them to do. Shoot I was told 15 plus years ago I need to replace the tires on my W Speed Patrol because they where weather checked and pieces of them where falling off but they still had air in them that day and still holding today. So it is sort of like how many bites does it take to eat a tootsie pop the owl says 3 LOL works like that with tires and how they are used and what you run over with them

NEARUSS · May 9, 2010

I"ve always figured 2000 hours on rears and 1000 hours for front MFWD on bias ply. I"ve got a newer tractor with radials that I haven"t got many hours on so I can"t say on them. I use mine a lot for loader work and we have rocky soil.

buickanddeere · May 9, 2010

5000+ hrs

Fordfarmer · May 9, 2010

Besides soil type and ammount/type of road use, it also depends on tractor weight/size. I average 4500 hours from the 18.4x34's on my 85 h.p. tractors, but my 50 h.p. has about 75% of the tread left on its second set, and it currently reads 8201 hours.

rob vds · May 9, 2010

The bigger the tractor the faster they use.An old 30 hp is only trying to apply 15 hp per tire and maybe 1 ton each where as a 140 hp under load is more than 4 times the work

TGIN · May 9, 2010

Old , The man is talking about tires on a working tractor , not something that sits in the weeds 360+ days a year .

Allan in NE · May 9, 2010

30 years, give 'er take.

Allan

old · May 9, 2010

Funny but again shows you do not know what your talking about. Does this look like it sits in the weeds I use it each and every time my drive way need to be graded and do so about once a month or more. You should really learn to talk about what you know about not what you think is in your head.
I mean like really dude get a life so maybe you will learn what some old people know.
Oh and those tires on the rear have been on for 15 plus years

TGIN · May 9, 2010

Back in the winter you told us you rarely use it but I dought you remember that , I guess once a month is rarely . I bet that rides pretty rough , ride it for 1/2 a hour then rest for three .

old · May 9, 2010

I wish a 1/3 hour takes me about 1-2 hours to do the whole drive and then yep 2 or 3 hours of rest and a couple days of major pain where I do very little

olgentdc · May 9, 2010

maybe RADIALS last longer ???? Never happen here in Southern IND with bias ply ,, $020 JD was completely Shod with AMERICAN rubber 10 yrs ago ,, 1600 hours later AND LOTS OF ROUND BALES , tires are worn to 50%or more ,,. Keep under roof because the Deere is a Power shift , .. and minimize pavement trips as much as possible during hot afternoons .... And don't do any Spinning tillage work ,

kyplowboy · May 9, 2010

As young pup by ytmag standards at 32 I have never worn out a pair of rear tires from new in my life time. I have bought two tractors with the tach working and both sellers claimed the tires were original. My 6700 I bought at 3200 hours and the tires were about 25%, ran them till they were plumb slick at 4100. Just bought a 9600 with 4400 hours, tires had no tread at all left and were dry rotted to the point chunks of rubber the size of my hand were missing from the side walls.

As for antique tractors, for folks who use them around here, most of the time the tires dry rot and fall apart before the tread is worn down. If I was the kinda guy who went on the tractor rides, I'd turn the tires around backwards like the mennonites around here that use tractors as minivans do so they will last longer on the black top.

Dave

RodinNS · May 9, 2010

That's a loaded question...
Depends on the tire, the use, asphalt, etc.
We've run cheap bias tires off the front of a loader tractor in 1000 hours. Probably have 4-5000 hours on another old one that sits a lot on a boom loader or does mostly field work.
Otherwise 2000 hours was pretty standard on bias R1's on the field tractors. Those are now running radials. Have over 3000 and lots of life left in one set of Firestone radials. Michelins... I can hardly tell wear on them in over 1000 hours. So... it just depends.

Rod

Flurette Farm · May 10, 2010

Thanks for all your answers guys. It wasn't a trick question. I was just trying to get some idea what kind of averages others got from normal field use on rear tires. Thanks again...

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