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Need to replace the rear tire on my Farmall M. 13.6 x 38 six-ply with fluid and tube, and they want $675?????

Also found out that a lot of the tire places no longer have an on-farm service truck. Even my local Coop who used to have one got rid of it. Isn't there enough money in the on-farm tire replacement business? Hard to believe with that, what with the high costs of getting a new tractor tire.

Is this what others are paying for tractor rears with fluid? I live in northeast Nebraska, btw...
 
Haven't bought any rear tractor tires lately, but paid $190 for a 4dlt tractor battery last saturday. Joe
 
(quoted from post at 07:39:14 03/20/12) Need to replace the rear tire on my Farmall M. 13.6 x 38 six-ply with fluid and tube, and they want $675?????

Also found out that a lot of the tire places no longer have an on-farm service truck. Even my local Coop who used to have one got rid of it. Isn't there enough money in the on-farm tire replacement business? Hard to believe with that, what with the high costs of getting a new tractor tire.

Is this what others are paying for tractor rears with fluid? I live in northeast Nebraska, btw...
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Guys like you (and me :roll: ) are why they are getting rid of them... If you don't pay the price tosupport them, they can't live..... If that 675 bucks is for two tires, and you're complainin, you better wake up or scrap your stuff......
 
That price is actually pretty good, buy them before they go up. I am seeing prices $200 per tire higher.
 
On another forum a fella was looking to put tires on a big big farm tractor, he was looking at a $20,000 billl - for tires.

Price increases started when we put a tarriff on China tires several years ago, tho other world events play at least as big a part in it, that seemed to be the start of tire price ramp up.

--->Paul
 
Price a new 11.2 x 34 rear tire for "Mac" our 51MT at the local discount tire store.

Tire alone was $697.50.

Used tires are looking better all the time.
 
Yea well your gonna crap yourself when you just replace one and figure out you are going to have to buy a second.

BTDT - 18.4/34 tad over $1200 pair ($1500 tractor). They only had one in stock and we ran it for a week due to a flat. In that week the tilt of the tractor and my natural desire to sit up right, put a kink in my back that didn't go away for a month......
 
Alliance tire $529.00 is todays price. 8 ply tube type. WHEN I was in the tire business, this would have included the tire, tube, pump fluid, you dispose of the old tire. And you are right there is NO money in on the farm tire business. We kept the truck around to support the tubless semi tire replacements
 
dont know where you are in Neb but i am in eastern SD and you would be out of the tire benisse with out a service truck up here
 
First off, have you been running around with a bag on your head? People have been complaining about tire prices for years now, ever since oil first went nuts back in 2007-2008.

Tires are made from oil, and oil went from $30 a barrel to $140 a barrel back a few years ago. Tire prices shot up, and farmers quit buying tires. When oil went back down in the market crash of 2008, tire manufacturers had warehouses full of tires made with $140 oil. Farmers still weren't buying tires, so the prices never came back down.

The tariffs on Chinese tires only brought the Chinese tires more in line with American tires. If not for the tariff, BKTs would be about 1/2 the cost of Firestones instead of 80%.

USED tires??? Are you kidding? Any good used tire that isn't grossly overpriced gets snapped up before it's even off the tractor. Heck, I sold a pair of dried-up, checked carcasses to a guy who put them on his tractor and is running them.
 
Coupla months ago, I did a commercial inspection on a wholesale tire dealer who carries over 2 million in inventory and does 6 million in annual sales.

He pointed out a particular tire, (appeared to be maybe an 18.4 X 38 without looking close) and said two years ago he sold that tire for $800. Now he has to get $1800.

Twenty five years ago, I went to a consignment auction and bought a pair of 18.4 X 38's, 70% and unchecked, for $20 for the pair. Like someone said, "Them days are gone forever".
 
I asked a full time farmer near me 'how many hours do you put on before you trade in your tractors'? His answer: when the tire treads get worn down. No joke.
 
I got a pair tires for garden tractor the first part of week and dealer said there is another price increase coming some time in April.
 
Tire guy was here Saturday morning and repaired a loaded rear on one of the loader tractors. We were talking about new tire prices. He said a new 18.4x38 Firestone is $1700. I put six new tires on my dually pickup six weeks or so ago. bought the cheapest ones I could find. $845 out the door for them.
 
Just put eight new skins on the pick=m=up and stock trailer. Cost something over $1100. Lucky the tire dealer has hunting rights on my place---
 
Brother just put eight new tires on a JD 8970 tractor he bought to pull a tile plow. The tires mounted on the tractor where $15,000. That was not what it originally had on it those Michelin's would have been over 20K.
 
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