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13.6-24 tires. Tractor used mainly on the road pulling wagons to market. Tires ware down so fast I was going to try and get a diamond tread or a heavy duty type tread that is on backhoes. Thought that might ware longer. Neither available in that size. Do you think it would work to have my casings capped with a grip track like on a semi tractor? Will anyone even cap a rear tractor casing?
 
We used to have a recapper locally. When he shut down, told me recapping was about done for. No market for them. Liability in case of failure very high. May have a real time finding one who could do tractor tires.
 
Might try mounting them backwards from normal rotation. Custom combine cutters pulled combines backwards during moves pulled with trucks. Tires were reported to not wear as bad backwards. They were pulled 50 mph+.
 
I have a 14.9x24 R4 8 ply we saved when we put a new pair on the tractor/backhoe/loader.
The tread is so shallow, I think you could make it work. The rolling circumference might not be much different than a 13.6x24 R1 tractor tire. But if you're running on a hard surface with the FWA disengaged, what difference would it make? Also you could manipulate the size a little with air pressure.
 
I doubt you'll find anyone to bother with capping a tractor tire anymore.
Best suggestion I can make.... if you've been using cheap bias tires... try a set of Michelin Agribib's. Yeah... they're going to be 3-4 times the money. They also wear better than most anything else I've ever seen. It's a very hard rubber compound. 2-3K hours is not uncommon, even if they're on asphalt a lot. Another thought... you can reverse the direction of the tires. I've been told that they wear a lot longer when reversed. Downside is that they have a lot less pull if you actually need the pull...

Rod
 
Graders almost always have the tires backwards on the front. Graders use a backhoe style tire that wears longer than an ag style tire, however newer graders are using more of a truck style tire on them that will wear a lot longer. I would look into those types of tires. They look narrower than the backhoe type tires used on graders. Outside circumference will be the biggest issue. Dave
 
You won't find a flat tread gripper with an adequate rolling circumference. Even if you did it won't be cheap...
Michelin should go a long way to reducing the operating costs with a tire that will fall in the 600-800 dollar range depending on the dealer... One of the other problems is that a tractor of the vintage that used 13.6-24 bias tires on the front will also have a multi-plate wet FWD clutch that never fully disengages. There's always a bit of drag in those things unlike the dog clutches that they used on newer models...
Tire wear is just a fact of life on these tractors.

Rod
 
What Rod said about turning them around. An hour south of me there is a Mennonite community that uses utility tractors pulling truck bed trailers with campers shells on them as minivans. They all run little two wheel drives with the rears turned around backwards. I have asked a few how much longer they last and they said over twice as long on the road.

Dave
 
don't know anything about it, but these tires do exist,
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...but not in a 13.6-24. A guy should be happy to get ~anything~ in a 13.6-24 as it's pretty well an obsolete size today.

Rod
 
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