[AT] Tractor rears getting old

[Indiana Robinson]

Like me many of my tractor rear tires are aging badly... They don't have
holes but many are getting a lot of deep cracks. I have about 4 sets here
but they are as old or older than the ones on the tractors.
New tires are just silly out of the question and still climbing... I used
to buy used tires really cheap at auctions but those days are gone. My big
nemesis these day is tractor pullers. A bunch of the ones I need to replace
are in the range of 13.6 x 38" to 15.5 x 38". Guess what size has the most
tractor pullers chasing them... They especially want the well worn ones
that I used to buy cheap because they were too worn for efficient field
work at heavy tillage.
Some could be saved with liners but liners can be a bit of a crap-shoot.
They are not all that cheap and can cause tube chaffing especially with a
tired ancient tube. They say to put in a new tube and cut the old one open
around the inside and put the new one inside of it to protect it. So then
you have the price of the liners and new tubes both. Still cheaper than new
tires but still painful and labor heavy. If you pay somebody to change them
that is now serious money and you are still running ancient tires.
I have often wished that somebody made a replacement inner tube (at a
reasonable cost) with about a 2 ply cord



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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com