BKT tires vs. Titan (Ag tread)

[fried1765]

Hard to tell. Guess I'll know in a few years. Mine were $110 per tire cheaper than Firestone. I'm not a fan of Firestone so that just made the deal sweeter. I am brand conscious. These BKTs are "off brand" to me. My tire dealer whom I trust said he has no problems with them. So thought I'd give it a try.

Oh...hey...I am not knocking BKT!
I bought new BKT tires for my 4x4 Ford 1920.
Tire dealer told me the same thing....no problems.
I was just pointing out that BKT is not from the USA....perhaps Titan is.
I am not one who refuses to buy unless it is made in USA.
I buy based on my researched opinion of quality & price.
If it is an equal or better quality mousetrap, I will focus on price alone.

 

[daugen]

BKT ...tires are made in India!
Perhaps ..... not much different than Chinese tires?

no no no
BKT is the Goodyear of India. My Massey 2615 was built in India. So are many other 50-80hp Utility tractors.
Including the big green. Standards in India improved earlier than China I believe due to British influence.
BKT is fully competitive and a very high value.
Besides, India is our friend...geez I bet half our phone calls come from there...

 

[daugen]

I really like seeing Made In USA on things I buy,
but there has to be good value. I'll pay more to get more, better welding, better engineering, in this case maybe
better hi tech rubber with new compounds in it. Maybe a more high tech tread pattern, a new Kevlar something or other.
Some performance benefit that would justify a higher price. If there is none, then why waste money...

In car tires for me value was paying more for Michelins simply because they
performed so well and were quiet. Trailer tires, gosh what a disaster that area has been, though now the Chinese seem to finally be making
a tire that lasts. But then how many folks did Goodyear burn, perhaps literally, with their awful Marathon trailer tires for awhile?

If BKT had made a similar turf tire for my small Massey, I probably would have paid ten percent more for the Made in USA.
The problem is Made In USA seems to be priced like organic produce.

If you want to really get revenge on your tire supplier, make them spend a day inside a shipping container full of Chinese tires.
one of the worst smells to come off a finished product since cow manure.

 

[ovrszd]

Oh...hey...I am not knocking BKT!
I bought new BKT tires for my 4x4 Ford 1920.
Tire dealer told me the same thing....no problems.
I was just pointing out that BKT is not from the USA....perhaps Titan is.
I am not one who refuses to buy unless it is made in USA.
I buy based on my researched opinion of quality & price.
If it is an equal or better quality mousetrap, I will focus on price alone.

The first time I saw a Titan tire I was pleasantly surprised to read it was made in USA.

 

[drizler]

Not often you read somebody bragging up Chinese trailer tires.

No kidding. I always found that Chinese cracked and weatherchecked in short order. No worries though as times have changed. Now days its hard to find a tire from anyone anywhere that doesn稚 crack in at least a few places. Things just......Keep getting better all the time with plastic and rubber products.

 

[daugen]

Titan International Introduces The Goodyear OPTITRALSW14/3R46 - YouTube

I knew Titan owned Carlisle but did not know the primary connection to the Goodyear brand, Titan builds Goodyear tractor tires.
Titan also makes the biggest tractor tire in the world. No wonder with their name...in their interest to promote the big image.

 

[oosik]

My OEM tires are front - Titan, 9.5x24 6pr rear - Firestone, 16.9x28 6pr. Never heard of BKT tires. Both the Titan and Firestone are working fine for me. I ALWAYS keep the tractor under cover/out of the sunlight unless I'm using it. My previous tractor - Ford 1700 - had Goodyear, front and rear. I bought the Ford, new in 1982, and when I traded it in both front and rear tires were still in good shape. They showed normal use after almost 30 years but no weather or sun cracking etc, etc.

 

[Liquidsilver]

My front BKTs are pretty worn down and chunked on a tractor with 2000 hours. I don't know if they are the first or second set. (??) (The tractor has only been with me for a year.) I finally had a stick break through one last week bushhogging, and found it flat in the barn. I plug so many tires on my trucks and motorcycles that I didn't even think before I ran a sticky plug into the tire, only to find there was a tube in there. Air came out everywhere, of course. I didn't have tools to try and bust it, so I took it to a local rural tire shop. I asked if he could repair any other holes and try to get it back to tubeless (I so I can plug them), and he was pretty skeptical.

It's a 9.5x22 front on a 50 horse 4x4 tractor... are these bustable by hand, or do you think I'll always need 'professional help?'

Thanks.

 

[ovrszd]

It's a 9.5x22 front on a 50 horse 4x4 tractor... are these bustable by hand, or do you think I'll always need 'professional help?'

Thanks.

Modern tires are formed where they meet the rim to be almost flush. No rim lip sticking out. Would make it almost impossible to beat down with a tire hammer. Tires designed in this manner have a "notch" about 4" long at one spot along the tire sidewall where it contacts the rim. This is a starting place for the air powered tool that pushes the tire loose from the rim. You might get lucky using a tire wedge and a tire hammer in this area to get it started. If so, then you could beat it down the rest of the way with a tire hammer. Tractor rims don't have safety ribs built into them like on road rims do. So once they start to break down they usually come loose easily.

 

[arrow]

My front BKTs are pretty worn down and chunked on a tractor with 2000 hours. I don't know if they are the first or second set. (??) (The tractor has only been with me for a year.) I finally had a stick break through one last week bushhogging, and found it flat in the barn. I plug so many tires on my trucks and motorcycles that I didn't even think before I ran a sticky plug into the tire, only to find there was a tube in there. Air came out everywhere, of course. I didn't have tools to try and bust it, so I took it to a local rural tire shop. I asked if he could repair any other holes and try to get it back to tubeless (I so I can plug them), and he was pretty skeptical.

It's a 9.5x22 front on a 50 horse 4x4 tractor... are these bustable by hand, or do you think I'll always need 'professional help?'

Thanks.

There are numerous tricks to get tires unseated w/o going to a shop. One of my favorites after you get the air out and spray the rim with soap or liquid dishwashing detergent is to drive your heaviest vehicle on a 2x6 placed to overlap the tire. Sought of like a ramp. drive onto the 2x6 and wait for the tire to unseat. Sometimes they'll do it immediately...other times you might have to wait until morning.