[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
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>         On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 11:29 PM Brian VanDragt
>         <bvandragt at comcast.net <mailto:bvandragt at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>             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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>             From: deanvp <deanvp at att.net <mailto:deanvp at att.net>>
>             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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>             -------- Original message --------
>             From: Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com <mailto:meulenms at gmx.com>>
>             Date: 4/8/19 4:08 PM (GMT-08:00)
>             To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
>             <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
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>             Subject: Re: [AT] tire brand
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>             What's the difference between 45 and 23 degree, other that
>             the obvious?
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>             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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