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That oliver question got me thinking. If you have a tractor that mostly just hauls grain on pavement to the elevator, do they make great big radial tires with car/truck-like tread for tractors that won't wear so bad on asphalt?

Our 1086 doesn't seem to get much field action anymore, it just pulls the wagon to town. Heavy tillage gets the 4-150s, planter gets pulled by the 756 or 826, same with the cultivator. So I was thinking maybe there's a street-use tire that would last better.
 
I don't know of anyone who makes a "road" tire for tractors. The general concensus around here has been that while radials outperform bias-plys in the field, they seem to wear faster on the road. I know of a few farmers who have switched to bias-ply because they spend a lot of time on the road. Another school of thought is to increase the pressure to reduce the flexing of the tires, although it makes for a harsher ride.
 
Thats a good question. The last 2 years all I use the 706 for is pulling wagons to town on asphalt and it is just eating those tires up. I can't wait to see the responces.
 
If you had the right size rims,you can use roadgrader tires. I think.Ive got a case 520 with 14-28 grader tires on it. Hoss
 
I've heard that Goodyear DT710's are supposed to be pretty good on pavement. I had a set... absolutly worthless on our clay soils. I think the Industrial tires mentioned by the other poster would be the best bet.
 
Been around a couple tractors with the DT 710 tires and they were the worst excuse for a tractor tire I've ever seen. I don't know how they'd do with just road work but most Goodyear tires don't last very well.
 
I wouldn't mind something like the old, old Firestone field and road, one of the first designs pretty much a continuous long bar short bar. rode smooth wore even not great for traction but one set is still around here on a 36 F20.
 
You would get some strange looks but just put the tires on backwards and they will wear many times longer. I know hard core tractor drive men who do.
 
Heres the way I see it: a tractor with excessively worn tires loaded with weight would be ideal for road driving.

Why do you need huge lugs on the road? It's not like you're gonna spin out or "lose" traction on pavement. As a matter of fact, surface area increases as the lugs wear down, so that more of the tire is on the road.

In this gentleman's case, he does ONLY ROAD driving with the tractor, so racing slicks are good enough!

Don't spend the money on new tires to give it to the pavement... it sounds preposterous!!
 
See if you can get a set of turf tires in that size, they work great on roads and not so good on grass.
Walt
 
don't know where you get them - but they are available......
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When I was in High school a kid had a hot rod with slicks. He went to the grocery store a half mile from school and then couldn"t get back. There was a light rain.
 
You should be able to get turf tires in that size. Alot of the sod operations have them on 100+ HP tractors.
 
I would think a worn down tire would work okay for that use. Except for the fact that tire side wall has been weaken by use also. And with a tubeless tire and a fully loaded two wheel grain cart behind how are you going to stop if tractor tire blows---no way. Hang on unless you have duals all around.
 
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