[AT] tire brand
Cecil Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Wed Apr 10 07:38:24 PDT 2019
I have also bought a lot of tires from www.Nebraskatire.com they are now
Tredz Central, but their website still works. Look at the sale flyer...
Cecil
On 4/10/2019 9:26 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I should have mentioned 24" tires in my other post. There are a "lot"
> of small farm tractors running 24" tires Like my Farmall Cub, The
> Farmall A's and B's, my Massey Harris Pony, my Allis C and the B and
> CA's and whole batch of others. Many of these are tractors that their
> owners are very personally attached to and might be more prone to put
> new rubber on and keep them forever.
> There was something else I had forgotten to mention in the first post
> but I seem to have forgotten it again... Oh, well...
>
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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:03 AM Indiana Robinson
> <robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> My father had a set of these on his Ford 9N and spent a lot of
> time cussing them, said he would never buy any again. They were
> bad at loading up with our waxy clay mud when trying to back out
> of a wet spot. They were smooth on the road though which would
> make them good on antique tractors for parades and drives. Then of
> course they look "proper" on old tractors. As you say, they need
> to come in more sizes like at least a 12.4 and 13.6 and at least
> the same widths in a 38" tire, and also at about half the current
> price. $1,100 plus is a lot of money for a set for old tractors
> that are very rarely earning their keep... Larger sizes would be
> higher and maybe even exponentially so. Few people want to spend
> $2,000 getting new tires put on an $1,800 tractor. :-)
> I constantly watch consignment auctions for "functional" used
> tires like Spencer mentioned. Something else I have done several
> times is buy a rough tractor with a pair of good rears and take
> them off to use on something that needs them and then sell the
> donor tractor. One I recall was a Co-op that had been back-flipped
> in a woods. I bought it for $200, took the rears off and ran them
> on my Deere A for years and sold the Co-op for a little more than
> I paid for it. Another one was a rough Allis WC with nearly new
> rears bought cheap and the tires swapped with a really crappy set
> on a very good WD I had. I also sold that old WC for a tiny
> profit. It would have been even better if I could have just
> switched wheels but you can't have everything. I was a good bit
> younger then and swapping rears wasn't nearly as much work as it
> is now. :-)
> .
> Here is a pic from Miller's.
> image.png
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> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:43 PM Al Jones <farmallsupera1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:farmallsupera1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> There's a reason just about every manufacturer went to 23
> degree lugs. I prefer the look of the old straight 45 degrees
> though. Of course what I really wish is that Firestone would
> make the old "turkey track" Champion Ground Grip tires from
> the late 40s again! You can get 10-28 (11-2 28s) but that's it.
>
> Al
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 11:29 PM Brian VanDragt
> <bvandragt at comcast.net <mailto:bvandragt at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
> I have heard, probably on this list, that the 45 degree
> tread offers more sideways ground holding power on a side
> hill.
> Brian
>
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> Date: 4/8/19 11:12 PM (GMT-05:00)
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> I can only offer my limited experience with the two. The
> 45 degree lug sheds mud better but the 23 degree lug
> offers slightly better traction
>
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> From: Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com <mailto:meulenms at gmx.com>>
> Date: 4/8/19 4:08 PM (GMT-08:00)
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> What's the difference between 45 and 23 degree, other that
> the obvious?
>
> Mike M
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> On 4/8/2019 6:08 PM, John Hall wrote:
> > OK here is the latest. Getting rims local, about the
> same price as you
> > can get anywhere on the net by the time I add
> shipping---plus I need
> > them NOW.
> >
> > Talked to 2 tire shops. Leaning toward the closest one.
> I'll have them
> > mount the tires on the new rims. I'll then put them on
> the tractor and
> > add fluid. Leaning toward a Carlisle--I had no idea they
> made any
> > thing besides lawn mower tires. These tires will be a 45
> deg angle,
> > not 23. Replacing a set of multi-angle Safemark. The
> other option is
> > tires made by Galaxy.
> >
> > John Hall
> >
> >
> > On 4/7/2019 5:45 PM, John Hall wrote:
> >> Looks like I have to buy 2 rear tires in a hurry.
> Anybody bought a
> >> particular brand the in the last few years that you are
> happy with?
> >> The cheaper the better--got to buy 2 rims as well. Rims
> made it 47
> >> years and have stress cracks, the tires are 60-70%
> tread, but at 28
> >> years old they have dry rotted.
> >>
> >> John Hall
> >>
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