Just wondering if anyone has possible suggestions as to why my New Case IH JX95 would be getting the tires shreded while mowing pastures/fields. The tractor came equipped with goodyear radial r1 tires. I'm not brush hogging or mowing in the woods and the tires seem to get punctured by twigs and sticks as small as blunt pencils and as big as base ball bats. I have had approximately 17 flat tires within the 200hrs of mowing I've put on the tractor. All the tires have several plugs and one has to run a tube to hold air. This is far from my first tractor, but is my first with radial r1's....are they just super weak? I had Firestone R4s on a 45 hp Branson that I put 500 hrs on in the exact same fields last year and I only got one flat from running over an 8point shed from a whitetail. The bad thing is when this tractor gets punctures the tires end up walking off the beads and it takes alot to change 18.4 r34 tires. The ruber from the tires is gummy soft and if I had no regard for my finger I could probably get a running start and pop a tire with it.
I'm thinking the tires are defective...can a tire manufacturer expect a tire to get punctured 17 times while driving over twigs and sticks in a field?
I'm thinking the tires are defective...can a tire manufacturer expect a tire to get punctured 17 times while driving over twigs and sticks in a field?