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Equipment, Machinery

VIDEO: How much can poor tire inflation affect your tractor’s fuel consumption?

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How much do tires influence tractor fuel consumption? New tire designs like Bridgestone’s VT radials offer a lug shape to reduce rolling resistance and help maximize efficiency. But growers still need to pay attention to proper inflation pressures to minimize wheel slip, which wastes fuel. This look at a demonstration at Agritechnica in Germany a […] Read more
While it’s toughest on tractor tires right after harvest, stubble may still be hard on your tires even the following spring.
Equipment, Machinery, Traction & Compaction

Expect stalks and stubble to become more stabby

Also: rubber is most prone to trouble from stubble when brand new, before it can harden naturally

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Don’t let its adorable little yellow flowers from the summer fool you — canola today can be “like little rebar” in your tractor tires. That was a late takeaway from an ag tire clinic for farmers at Melfort, Sask. in July, hosted by staff from retailer Kal Tire and manufacturer Firestone Ag. It’s not that […] Read more
Bridgestone is introducing three new ag tractor tire lines to the North American market. All three are designed to extend tire life, as well as improve traction.
Equipment, Machinery, Traction & Compaction

Bridgestone-branded ag tires come to North America

New radial tractor tires debut as a complement to the Firestone brand

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In May of 1988 Bridgestone acquired Firestone. Since then the company’s ag tire line has continued on carrying the Firestone brand name, at least here in North America. In late August, though, the company launched its first Bridgestone-branded ag tire line on these shores. “In North America, historically, everything in our business has been Firestone-branded, […] Read more
Customers can now order tires and wheels directly from OTR through a new consumer-facing website.
Machinery, Traction & Compaction

OTR opens online tire ordering platform

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Tire and wheel manufacturer OTR Engineered Solutions announced in late May it has a new site up online for customers to order directly from its tire and wheel catalogs. Using the new portal, customers have access to OTR’s full product offering of tires, tubes, wheels, assemblies, and rubber tracks across multiple industries including construction, lawn […] Read more
New Soil King VF tires from Nokian are now available in eight sizes for high-horsepower tractors.
Machinery, Traction & Compaction, Wheat & Chaff

New tires from Nokian

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Nokian is introducing its new Soil King Flexforce VF tires for high-horsepower tractors. It first displayed them at Agritechnica 2023. The tires were also tested in Germany at the independent DLG (German Agricultural Society) test centre, and DLG has now released its report on their performance. During testing, DLG compared the Nokian Soil King tires […] Read more
Lower tire pressure offers more traction and less ground compaction, but can limit the tire's load capacity.
Machinery, Traction & Compaction

Getting the right tire

Loader tires need the right tire and inflation pressure for the load

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When spec’ing out a new loader tractor, there are a lot of things to consider: lifting capacity, horsepower, size et cetera. Easily overlooked, though, are the specifications for the tires the tractor rides on — and how they can seriously affect tractor performance. “One thing that’s important for operators to understand is how proper ballasting, […] Read more
Titan has expanded the size range in its new line of AgraEDGE R-1W tires.
Machinery

Titan rolls out more tire size choices

The brand expands its AgraEDGE R-1W product line

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Tire manufacturer Titan announced it has significantly expanded its newest line of R-1W tires, called the AgraEDGE. It will now produce sizes ranging from 320/85R24 for tractors all the way up to 800/70R38 for flotation applications. The company says the AgraEDGE line now covers the majority of the most in-demand sizes for MFWD tractors, as […] Read more
Evolution of tires on agricultural vehicles
Machinery

Evolution of tires on agricultural vehicles

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Since it was first introduced as an option on agricultural tractors around the 1930s, the pneumatic tire has continued to evolve. Tire manufacturers have since had to keep up with the evolution of farm machines, which have become significantly larger and heavier. They’ve had to  come up with new tire designs capable of handling the […] Read more
Titan tire has introduced an R-2 LSW tire that improves traction in wet field conditions.
Equipment, Machinery

New ag tire designs introduced

BKT and Titan debut new specialty ag tires

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One of the components on ag equipment that has significantly evolved in recent years is tires. Bias ply tires once dominated the ag equipment sector just as they did the automotive one. But for the most part, radials have since bumped those off the radar, and the VF (very high flexion) version of ag radial […] Read more
BKT tractor tires
Equipment, Machinery

Why fluids have no place in the drive tires on your tractor

Filling tractor tires with liquid to improve traction is no longer a good idea

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Like every other aspect of agricultural equipment design, ag tires have evolved significantly from the days when bias-ply technology was about the only choice for most tractors. The introduction of modern radials means tires are now much more capable of turning engine horsepower into usable traction than bias-ply tires ever were. The way bias-ply tires […] Read more

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