Last week,had a flat on the rear of the 1256,lost all the calcium.3 days ago,hooked up to the landplane and 'lost' the front dolly tires,Then Susan was finishing the roller harrowing,the RH threw a 'cap'(but is still holding air),Yesterday morning,walked out and saw the 826 leaning-right rear flat.Today,while moveing to another field another tire on the landplane blew.I had to drive about a mile before I could stop...Called Susan to bring me a tire...Cellphone dead!Walked to the nearest house and called home.Got every thing repaired and got back to the field.Tires drive me crazy!
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Wheat Farmer
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I have a funny feeling I'm going to have one of those days soon. The bad part is you have to fix it then. But the price of tires you have to run equipment until they do die. $900 for a set of pickup tires, and then you only get about 50-75% out of them.
Deere Scotty
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I have been there. In 1993 bought a new JD 720 wagon gear. Tires I put on it were the worst I ever saw, or will see again! In one year I believe I had 18 repairs (still remember after 20 yrs!) Ran over a hidden deer antler with an 18.4-38 & ruined the tire, & tube + Plus calcium, Same year! I said I would never forget the brand of tire on the wagon; but stopped to think for a few minutes, & right now... I cant remember; but still have the receipt, & wrote in large permanent marker "NEVER, NEVER, EVER BUY AGAIN!"
OldFarmTractor
Member
Is 90,000 miles on the first set of tires on my Ram par for the course?
Badger bob
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Red stop and think of how many tires you have on the farm. it,s a wonder there is not a flat every day. Bob
Wheat Farmer
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That is good. What brand? With lots of Mountain Dirt roads I'm lucky to get 30K. I have found putting it in 4 wheel drive on some slope helps. Lot of different loads, and don't always get the pressure changed. Even tight turning on pavement takes it total. Back in Nebr. we would get 90K. Trucks have more than that on them.
fixerupper
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I think we've all had those days to some extent through our farming careers. This winter I finally broke down and bought a tire changer because of all the old tires I have on the farm. I'm getting too old to take them apart manually. LOL It won't do the hardest ones, the tractor rears and truck tires, though for twice what I paid for this one I could have had one. If we put good new tires on every implement and tractor on the farm we'd go broke in a hurry. Jim
BANDITFARMER
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We have all had one of those days! BTDT too! I rented a new field (over 20 years ago) one time that I had 25 flats that year and 22 the next. Things like old plow points, broken disc blades, cuilt sweeps, pipe and nails. It was a nightmare! While harrowgating with the 1850 I found a cultivator shank with the left rear tire and had the instant flat, Called tire shop to come fix it. Guy shows up with a C60 service truck and backs up alongside of the Oliver and starts his work. He gets done I pay him, He starts to leave moves about 20 feet stops and gets out mad as could be! I walked over to see what the problem was as he walked around the truck and found he had 3 flats! He was not a happy camper! At least I didn't have to pay for that. I only farmed it for 2 years and let someone else have some fun. One thing worse than tires....Batteries! Bandit
old
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- Camdenton Missouri
Ya know what you mean. During hay season I try to keep a few spare tires around for the equipment and fronts for the tractors but still seem to come up short all the time
Dave Sherburne NY
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Write your congressman and ask him to get the president to give one of those billion dollar loans to a good tire company instead of continually throwing money at those green energy companies that keep failing.
CenTex Farmall
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Flats is on my short list of "If you could eliminate one thing in the world, what would it be"
Anonymous-0
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Running a nail farm can be difficult.
I have a total of 81 inflatable tires on all of my farm equipment. The one odd one being the drive wheel on a Great Plains drill. The last one that went flat was a brand new 18.4 X 38 Michelin radial (nail). Cost less than 50 bucks to fix. One before that was a brand new implement tandem on a brand new Brillion field cultivator. I looked around and it was just flopping around the wheel. All cut to pieces. I evidently turned before the machine was fully out of the ground and stripped it right off the wheel. I couldn't believe how much torque Brillion used on the lug nuts. All of them. Had to buy a new tire and tube. And then there was the day I walked into the machine shed and the little wagon I use to transport tools and parts around had 3 flat tires. A nice little hole in each. ?? Three new tires and tubes later, all was well again. One time I took a coffee can full of loose change to the bank and they ran it through their coin counter and brought back a goodly sum of about $200. "Not bad" I thought. On the way home I got a flat tire on my truck. Put on the spare and drove back into town (Fleet Farm) $200 later I had a new tire on the truck and no money. I don't know if that makes you feel any better?
BANDITFARMER
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NO-NO-NO- don't ever fill them with foam! I have an 11:00 x16 4rib filled with foam that weighs about 400 lbs + and is less than useless on the road, Darn thing is like a rock! That thing will beat you to death on a tractor. However it comes in handy in the winter for weight for my wife's Ford Ranger, Bed has been coated so when I lay the tire in there it don't slide around. Bandit
Last year a neighbor who's starting out again was borrowing a bunch of chopper wagons from other neighbors, and they had to replace a whole mess of tires on the wagons. I think in 1 day he said they had 6 flats, and a few more before & after that as well. We were using our wagons, so they never came & asked about ours.
Last year seemed to be above average with flats, but nothing too alarming, as far as I'm aware.
Donovan from Wisconsin
Last year seemed to be above average with flats, but nothing too alarming, as far as I'm aware.
Donovan from Wisconsin
T in NE
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- Location
- Cambridge, Nebraska
I'm working on getting the boss to buy one of those magnets like they hang off the yard jockeys at the big warehouses.
fixerupper
Well-known Member
I took a hayrack load of scrap to the scrapper years ago when scrap wasn't worth anything. Got a flat on the rack at the scrapyard and the tire was too bad to fix. The used car tire I got at a gas station cost more than what I got out of the steel. Jim
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