jyoutz
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Do you have a shop that sells truck and heavy equipment tires? Check with them. They are usually much cheaper than tractor dealers and they can order most anything.
Discount tires?
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jimjumper
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Oddly enough, I was just having this same discussion with the tractor restoration guy in town. Needed a 11.2-28 for a Ford 8N and he recommended trying Walmart! on line. $260+tax delivered to my door. Lot cheaper than the one I replaced on the other side.
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I don't remember buying any though them.
WM75Guy
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I needed to replace the 4 original Titan R-4 tires on my 2003 TC40DA in November, 2023. Tried to find tires locally but struck out. None of the tractor dealers sell tires anymore, they sent me to the local tire shops. The local tire shops said they couldn't get Titan tires. I used the Titan website to locate the closest dealers. I had to make a 200-mile round trip to the town of West, Texas to get them replaced. Price was $1,978 installed.
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I lucked out on a posting on a Farmall page on Facebook a little over 2 years ago where a supposed tire shop in VA. was selling Michelin 12.4-36 6 ply radials for $300 ea. I did a online check real fast and saw those tires cost anywhere from $975 to $1300+ ea. depending on dealer. I messaged the guy asking what shipping would be to Columbus, OH. He messaged back and said it was too late to check but call him the next morning around 10:00 and he'd have me a quote. Gave me a phone number to call. I did a Google search for the number and it came back to a tire dealer in VA so I felt a little more confident it wasn't a scam.
Called and a receptionist answered stating the tire shops business. Asked for so & so and put me through to him. He told me $125 to ship on a pallet to a trucking company facility 17 miles away. Or would provide lift gate service for another $50. Decided to pick them up, and they would set them on my trailer. While on the phone asked him if they required a radial tube or would a regular tube work. He said heck, I'll throw in a set of tubes. Still uneasy I told him I wanted a set. Put them on a credit card in case it was a scam. Sweated bullets until two days Old Dominion Trucking called and said my tires were ready to pick up. No doubt I was a pretty happy guy. I have to complement the forklift operator as he was pretty delicate loading them. Once on the trailer, I saw 2 sealed boxes with the inner tubes. Strapped them down and headed home.
I noticed when they were loaded they had John Deere yellow several places along the bead otherwise brand splinter new. I just assumed they were take-offs from a field sprayer or something similar.
Got them home and Mounted on my old Farmall Super C. After taking the picture of them mounted I had to chuckle. $3K worth of tires & tubes on a $1500.00 tractor. Unless I run over something and puncture a hole in them, they should last me the rest of my life. As one of my buddy's in our tractor club say's... "It will look good on the sale bill someday..."
Called and a receptionist answered stating the tire shops business. Asked for so & so and put me through to him. He told me $125 to ship on a pallet to a trucking company facility 17 miles away. Or would provide lift gate service for another $50. Decided to pick them up, and they would set them on my trailer. While on the phone asked him if they required a radial tube or would a regular tube work. He said heck, I'll throw in a set of tubes. Still uneasy I told him I wanted a set. Put them on a credit card in case it was a scam. Sweated bullets until two days Old Dominion Trucking called and said my tires were ready to pick up. No doubt I was a pretty happy guy. I have to complement the forklift operator as he was pretty delicate loading them. Once on the trailer, I saw 2 sealed boxes with the inner tubes. Strapped them down and headed home.
I noticed when they were loaded they had John Deere yellow several places along the bead otherwise brand splinter new. I just assumed they were take-offs from a field sprayer or something similar.
Got them home and Mounted on my old Farmall Super C. After taking the picture of them mounted I had to chuckle. $3K worth of tires & tubes on a $1500.00 tractor. Unless I run over something and puncture a hole in them, they should last me the rest of my life. As one of my buddy's in our tractor club say's... "It will look good on the sale bill someday..."
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Why do you need tires to begin with? I have found that you can have a hell of alot of dry rot cracks and still hold air in a tube.
I have a NH that the liquid filling inside the tire is actualy seeping out of the tire, theres no tubes. I recently got a puncture in these 23yr old tires (date coded for 2000) and if I didnt I wouldnt be putting a tube in them.
I have a NH that the liquid filling inside the tire is actualy seeping out of the tire, theres no tubes. I recently got a puncture in these 23yr old tires (date coded for 2000) and if I didnt I wouldnt be putting a tube in them.
The cracks go all the way through to the tube, continue all the way around (anymore cracking will have it unfold like a book), and flaps hang off it and get caught on stuff- so no, I can't save them anymore. My farm has a lot of very marshy areas and I don't want to lose a tire in a spot where I wouldn't be able to jack her up or so stuck, I can't drag her out.
EddieWalker
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Discount tire is too expensive. I found the best prices for my truck at a local repair shop that sells tires.
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Sometimes I check my local Craigslist for tires. There can be unique things that pop up. Farm auctions?
My latest score was a set of brand new 11.2-24 tires at the county surplus auction that should fit my Ford 1715. The 20 to 30 year old tires on it seem to be OK, but with A LOT OF CRACKING.
My latest score was a set of brand new 11.2-24 tires at the county surplus auction that should fit my Ford 1715. The 20 to 30 year old tires on it seem to be OK, but with A LOT OF CRACKING.
