Trailer tire milage

[Diamondpilot]

Do you rotate the tires? I do mine yearly which helps. Most chose hard left hand turns which scrubs more.

Chris

 

[minner]

something sounds clearly bent/out of alignment.

my 10K trailer has several thousand miles on it (regular 300 mile trips to our other property) in the past couple of years and the tires hardly look like they have lost any tread and its a used trailer at that.

Describe the wear? flat spots? (are you frequently locking up the trailer brakes) inside edge, outside edge, chunking?

Pics of the trailer?

Nothing abnormal really. Wear is pretty even. The right side may a have a little more wear.

These are bias tires and I have not rotated them.

I know that's probably bad but I don't have a lot of spare time since mowing and tractor work is my second job.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

I have a 24' gooseneck with 2 - 7000 lb axles. The trailer came with 10 ply tires and I kept having to replace them with hardly any wear. The problem was that the belts would separate and the tires would blow out.

I think this was caused by turning to sharply with a load on the trailer.

I have switched to 14 ply and have not had any blow out since the switch.

 

[woody]

I have a 24' gooseneck with 2 - 7000 lb axles. The trailer came with 10 ply tires and I kept having to replace them with hardly any wear. The problem was that the belts would separate and the tires would blow out.

I think this was caused by turning to sharply with a load on the trailer.

I have switched to 14 ply and have not had any blow out since the switch.

I have the same problem with my 7ton trailer swapped over to 10 ply truck tires. no problems yet

 

[Gary Fowler]

Whew talking about a pain to tow and hard on a truck believe me I know.
Realistically though those trailers probably only saw the gin probably a dozen times a year?
FWIW most trailer tires are "rated" for 5k-12k miles.

Well the closest gin was over 20 miles away and they went once, sometimes twice a day for 60 days each year. I saw the trailers at one of the gins 10 years after I quit farming an the same 12 ply tires were still on it, a bit weather checked but still functioning. NO Brakes on those trailers then so stopping was a bear along with starting off. Pulled them with a 1500 GMC with 3 speed automatic & 350 CI V8. 40 MPH top speed with 12,000 pounds of cotton on it. The tires were 10:00x16 12 ply co-op tires, never had a problem with them either. I don't think they make tires to last like that anymore.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Nothing abnormal really. Wear is pretty even. The right side may a have a little more wear.

These are bias tires and I have not rotated them.

I know that's probably bad but I don't have a lot of spare time since mowing and tractor work is my second job.

When you replace get radial tires. We run Greenball Towmaster Radials on 95% of our stuff. Bet I have been around for a hundred sets on tandem and tri axle trailers and not one single failure unless age related which I always warn the customer about and refuse to hitch up to if over 6 years old.

The Goodyear Marathons and Carlisle's had so many failures I could not keep track.

Chris

 

[Combustix]

15,000 miles tops.

More important is age. 6 years max, after that I will not touch them and no tire shop around here will either.

Chris

Never knew that I got a sixteen foot tandem with the original tires from 99. I use it to haul hay twice a year and odds and ends. The spares in good shape too lol

 

[Diamondpilot]

Never knew that I got a sixteen foot tandem with the original tires from 99. I use it to haul hay twice a year and odds and ends. The spares in good shape too lol

How many miles and what speeds?

I have personally had two spares let go without ever touching the ground. One happened not 5 minutes after my daughter was next to the trailer in the pole barn putting away her bike. It blew a hole through the wall. Ticking time bomb. It was 8 or 9 years old and a 225 75 15 Carlise 8 ply.

Chris

 

[Complete Turf Care]

When you replace get radial tires. We run Greenball Towmaster Radials on 95% of our stuff. Bet I have been around for a hundred sets on tandem and tri axle trailers and not one single failure unless age related which I always warn the customer about and refuse to hitch up to if over 6 years old.

The Goodyear Marathons and Carlisle's had so many failures I could not keep track.

Chris

How can you tell the age of a tire? Isn't it on the tire somewhere?

 

[Diamondpilot]

How can you tell the age of a tire? Isn't it on the tire somewhere?

Yes. Its in a oval about 1.5" long and .5" high. It will be a code like 3408. Its always 4 numbers. In this example 34 is the week and 08 is the year. So the tire was manufactured the 34th week of 2008.

2112 would be the 21st week of 2012, ect.

Chris