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Faunsdale, AL | You can buy them from GENSCO. I’ve run them a lot on front of tractors and have some on my old 400 bu grain cart. I keep that thing on hard ground, it never goes out in the field loaded!
They sell tires alone and tires already mounted that have had the bead cut down so they can be mounted tubeless on a regular drop center rim. They also have them on a two piece bolt together rim with tubes which is what you want where you aren’t running over thorns etc all the time.
You cannot run one of the cut down tires with a tube in it, because the rough surfaces left inside will eat a tube in short order. So they usually sell them as a “no flats” assembly on a standard drop center rim filled with a hefty dose of their stopleak. Truth is they’re seldom leak free forever, but work very well to keep you going all day through thorns etc that would ruin anything less than the airplane tires pretty fast.
Problem is when they leak, the tire is so stiff you may not realize it and start up in the morning and pop the tire off the bead after a few yards travel. Then you have to jack it up and get it reseated etc. if you check your tires every morning and add air if necessary before moving the tractor you can usually run all day over some of the roughest stuff imaginable. Only thing rugged-er would be to have them foamed.
I tried them on silage wagons because I could buy a tire mounted on a rim with stopleak for not much more than a Highway Special Firestone 11L-15 12 ply implement tire. They were ok but given how easy the Firestones were to dismount and replace etc, I finally used them exclusively on my existing rims. I always added the stopleak to all of them and I think it did help keep us rolling. We ran up to 9 wagons while chopping silage so (cheap) tires were a major source of downtime and aggravation!
Had 12.5L-16’s on a couple wagons and the Firestone price scared me enough that I bought some Carlyle(Carlisle?) tires. They seemed to be jinxed and none of them lasted long, but they were so few that I’m not sure it was the tires or just bad luck. I think we wound up buying Firestones to put on those in the end.
Firestone and others now offer radial implement tires that have a higher load rating than the best bias tires we were running back in the day. I would price them and compare to buying rims with Super single 22.5 take-offs.
Edited by ccjersey 9/12/2024 13:32
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Airplane tires on gravity box
