Tractor Tires

[Silver]

Has anyone bought a new rear tire for a tractor lately? I needed to replace one yesterday, a 20.8 x 38 rear tire. Tire: $1,560, wet change: $150, tube $190.25. Throw in the obligatory misc. shop supplies and taxes and it totalled up to $2,027 dollars or so.
Sure hope the calf prices stay up for a while :shock:

 

[jodywy]

reshod my 4040 all thje way around a year ago.... :?

 

[George]

Got a good used tire for the Cat 980C ( 29.5X25 L5 ) - - - $2,550.00 installed and felt I was lucky to find it!

 

[Denny]

I put new 13.6x20 front tires on my 925 belarus one tire and tube cost $500 with tax the other I found at a tractor salvage/used Belarus Dealer new tube and tire $200 2 new front rims From Meyer Tractor salvage in Aberdeen $172 each delivered. I mounted them myself. We put them on today and pulled the tractor a 1/2 mile to get it running and drove it/limped it to the repair shop for a cluctch job. Local backyard shop clutch,pressure plate, throw out bearing turn the fly wheel and labor he quoted me $800 parts alone would have cost me $600.

I get a pretty good break on tractor tires thru my trailer dealer business. Seams a new 20.8 x38 cost $1200 with tube.

Did price some new 14.9x28 Firestone radials a week ago they were $967 each my cost.

 

[Red Barn Angus]

I just bought a pair of 13.6 x 24 front tires the other day. Cost $810 installed but they are cheapies made in India or somewhere and are bias tires. I had to put new tires on my tractor as part of the deal to trade for a new one. The new tractor has radial tires on it, it's a 6430 JD. Just a question, where a tractor is used for haying, feeding cattle and other utility work are radials really necessary?

 

[Mike]

I just bought a pair of 13.6 x 24 front tires the other day. Cost $810 installed but they are cheapies made in India or somewhere and are bias tires. I had to put new tires on my tractor as part of the deal to trade for a new one. The new tractor has radial tires on it, it's a 6430 JD. Just a question, where a tractor is used for haying, feeding cattle and other utility work are radials really necessary?

Not really. But for disking, harrowing, etc., the extra traction pays off. More tread on the ground....................

 

[eatbeef]

I just bought a pair of 13.6 x 24 front tires the other day. Cost $810 installed but they are cheapies made in India or somewhere and are bias tires. I had to put new tires on my tractor as part of the deal to trade for a new one. The new tractor has radial tires on it, it's a 6430 JD. Just a question, where a tractor is used for haying, feeding cattle and other utility work are radials really necessary?

If you have a front wheel assist, then no, but if you got a 2 wheel drive with a loader the radials make a huge difference in traction especially if weighted with weights or fluid. The ride is much nicer also for haying. I had bias on my 4440 that were equal to nascar slicks when i was done, i went with firestone radials and wouldnt ever go back to a radial. I just wish they made decent tubes now a days. I seem to always have trouble with leaking fluid around valve stems

 

[RSL]

Our 4240 has 20.8x34 that are near and dear. They are about $600 more than an 18.4x38. We wound up getting a set of less used duals off Kijiji for $500 (for the set). Don't want to think about what they would cost now.