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Rice and Cane tires

super99

super99

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Do the taller lug rice and cane tires make the tractor vibrate real bad at road speeds? Many years ago during a wet fall, I traded the drive tires on my MF 510 for a used set of r/c tires. The combine would vibrate terrible driving down the road. It would go thru mud really good until the mud built up under the cab and forced the unload lever up enough to engage the unload auger. I keep thinking about the WD 45 that I looked at for the old guy in the tractor club. He claims that the tires on it were on it when he bought it and that he has put 3500 miles on the tractor since he had it. The lugs are taller than my new BKT tires on the 1550 and don't show any road wear. I'm just wondering if he has rice tires and that is causing his vibration. Wish I had taken pictures of the tires.
 
I don't think the lug length would be the concern. The concern would be a solid rib of rubber down the centerline to support the weight of the tractor, or lugs that offer the most continuous contact there. Different mfgrs. pay more attention to that support in their tread design. I am running a set of 16.9x28 Titans on my Branson 6530 and they vibrate pretty good whereby I have Kelly Springfield 13.6x28 2000s on my Ford 2000 and 3000 and they are smooth running.
 
How does someone know how many miles they have put on a tractor?

I bought a CaseIH 5230 MFWD tractor. Driving it home it developed a vibration whereupon I thought the rear end was coming apart. It was speed sensitive. I replaced the worn Goodyear bias 18.4x38 with American Farmer 18.4x38. I didn't like the performance of the new tires at all, plus the vibration still occurred. The rims are only 15 inch, so I ordered Firestone 16.9x38 radials. Tractor has behaved ever since. So anything is possible.
 
I bought a 49 LA Case about 25 years ago that had what I believe were the original tires and they were rice tires.
It came from SW Missouri.
Probably was an Arkansas tractor.
It had lots of tread on it and the tires were hard as a rock.
Pulled a wheeled dirt pan enlarging my fish pond.
Got it ready to take to a tractor pull and checked the pressure in the tires and it was 0 PSI.
Tires were so hard, they stood up during all that dirt moving.
Richard in NW SC
 
Used to run nothing but rice and cane(r-2) tires and while the difference can be felt it wasnt as bad as some of you are describing.no pronounced vibration.these were 23.1-34s on both tractors and combines of various size(3 different Oliver 1950s,a 503 and 915 international combines We used mostly Firestone tires though
 
It doesn't have an hour meter. He uses it for tractor drives and they normally tell you how many miles the ride will be, so just by keeping track and adding you can figure out the miles driven. I have put almost 900 miles on my 1550 this year.
 
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