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Married2Allis

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I'm looking for used rear tires and don't need full tread. I saw a set of Armstrong 18.4-34s with 40% tread for about $350. The ad also says "would make a good set of pulling tires". I'm not going to do any pulling but I always thought that you would want near-new tires at a tractor pull. ???
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The tread should be short for the compacted soil on a tractor pull track. Serious pullers in unlimited classes often have very short close together bars that work to
transfer power to that soil. Tall tread with moderate spacing works on the farm and in damp soil. Tall tread in stiff soil or at extreme slippage bend over and grip
poorly. Jim
 
New tires on any decent prepared
pulling track will dig a hole and
bury. Shorter lugs let the body of the
tire contact the ground, helping hold
tire up instead of being dug down,
lowering drawbar and creating a "ledge
" ahead of tires to run against.
 
Those 18.4's look road worn with a sharp leading edge good for pulling...You don't want much lug on a pulling
tire....Heres my 180 Allis puller....I can't keep a crank in it so its set for a few years..
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The concern is that the tall lug of a new tire under conditions of a hard pull on a hard track can roll over and thus lose traction.
 
Hi How an old guy summed up new tires on some pulling tractors for me was" If you dig it up you
got to push it along with front of the pan on the sled".

On my tractor I had a set of very even field and road worn Kliebers. They are the European tire
that has 2 long bars like regular tires and the little tiny rectangular 3/4 x 3" bars in between
the main bars. The main treads were down so far there was more of the little bars as tread. They
pulled real good on sand and dirt tracks. They didn't "Dig" hardly anything for the pan to push up
the track.

I have seen guys in my class finish up 3/4 down the track with 3ft of dirt piled up, compared to
very little with my tractor at the full pull.
Good tread doesn't always mean the best pull. If I go antique pulling with my P6 fordson I have a
set of 16.9 x30 firestones with 3/4" even tread on to try and see what happens with them.
Regards Robert
 
Interesting -- I would have never guessed that stuff about the right kind of tires for pulling. Great looking AC puller.
 
301 AC on alky taken out to 326 cubic engine..Turns 6500 rpms and makes nearly 1000 horses....Pulls a 40 MPH gear..
 
(quoted from post at 19:33:38 05/02/16) Hi How an old guy summed up new tires on some pulling tractors for me was" If you dig it up you
got to push it along with front of the pan on the sled".

On my tractor I had a set of very even field and road worn Kliebers. They are the European tire
that has 2 long bars like regular tires and the little tiny rectangular 3/4 x 3" bars in between
the main bars. The main treads were down so far there was more of the little bars as tread. They
pulled real good on sand and dirt tracks. They didn't "Dig" hardly anything for the pan to push up
the track.

I have seen guys in my class finish up 3/4 down the track with 3ft of dirt piled up, compared to
very little with my tractor at the full pull.
Good tread doesn't always mean the best pull. If I go antique pulling with my P6 fordson I have a
set of 16.9 x30 firestones with 3/4" even tread on to try and see what happens with them.
Regards Robert
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With all due respect Robert, I am an old guy too, and my tires may lift a little dirt as I go down the track, but you know what, they don't put down an ounce of additional dirt to be pushed. They just fluff it a little and the front of the sled just pushes it back down.
 
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