Too weather checked?

edgerider11 · May 10, 2023

Are these tires too weather checked?

wp6529 · May 10, 2023

I've run worse for years before they failed to the point of having to replace them. Big tires are big $$ so unless your livelihood is dependent on the tractor always being useable, just run the tires until they will run no more.

Tim in New York · May 10, 2023

For what?

Seriously, you won't know until you use the tractor. Might also depend on how old they are, brand, etc. I would think that older tires from the 50's, 60's were made a lot tougher than new tires are today. I had a pair on my 1964 IH utility tractor that were probably the originals and were shot when I bought it in 1988. I used them for 10 years until the tube finally started showing through one sidewall.

I would say to give it a try and just not go anywhere too far from home or the barn at first.

Tim

moresmoke · May 10, 2023

If you are using the tractor for general purposes around the yard I would just run them until they dont anymore. If you are planning tractor rides or hauling wagons on the road, I would look for something better.

I bought a tractor with tires much worse than that. 30 years later it is still going and the tires are not much worse than they were.

DanielW · May 10, 2023

I wish most of mine looked that good.

fastfarmall · May 10, 2023

There ok,whey will last anther 5 years if kept inside out of the sun!

Bruce from Can. · May 10, 2023

I would run them till they fail.

wore out · May 10, 2023

As the others said, if for hobby use you will probably get quite a few years out if them. On the other hand, if they happen to have CaCl ''ballast'' in them running them to the point of failure is NOT a good plan!

DR. EVIL · May 10, 2023

Here's another vote to run them longer. Dad put brand new 23 degree Firestone's on his '51 M, ran them about a year and was opening up a corn field with the mounted picker and drove over a busted steel post, so he had the tire guy put one of the old tires back on, a 45 degree Gillette, I've never seen another tire by that brand name, it was on the M for 12 years and has been back on it another 50+ years and those cracks by the inside ends of the lugs will eventually go all the way to the tubes. I'm looking for a new pair reasonably priced. Tire prices follow oil prices, it's NOT the time to be buying tractor tires! What's sad the surviving Firestone looks about 2-3 years old even after 50+ years.
It's sometimes wiser to buy the better tire, it won't weather as fast and crack.

Old560 · May 10, 2023

Run it.

Adrian Billheimer · May 10, 2023

Tires on my Super A are a lot worse than that, I'm running them till they don't hold air any more.

GreenAcre · May 10, 2023

-Don't borrow trouble, you don't have it yet...

dhermesc · May 11, 2023

Depends. Are you going to hook to plow and run it 10 hours a day and put 600-700 hours on the tractor this year? If so - you need new tires. Or is it going to mow a little and maybe get 30 hours of use a year? If so those tires have 10 years left in them.

560Dennis · May 11, 2023

Run them ,
I wouldnt run them in road gear with two wagon loads of hay down a grade mind you .
Enough bar to plow and disc
You got fenders ,thats great.
Safety first

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