Dry rotted tires

[clemsonfor]

Those were pricy i bet and probably a bit more rolling resistance! But look cool! Just wondering why not just put tubes in the olds and been done with it. There are plenty of old tractors with dy rotted tires on them. With out a loader to be relly unstable at a bad time if one blew you really should have no worries. The worst thing is that one blows out while your plowing or cutting and have to wait till the next week to fix it, right? The fastest my ym2000 goes is like 10mph or less i think. If i blow at that speed i hardly think i will loose control or anything, and i only go that fast on pavement. Im at the most maybe 2/3 that speed doing anything else.

 

[1401rider]

They really were not that bad price wise. My old tires were coming apart literally. The sidewall was cut by a stem while hauling some logs this summer. It appears the tire pinched a hole in the tube causing a slow leak. I was able to patch and use the old tube with the new tires though. The tubes themselves looked to be in good shape except for the small hole. These are 4 ply and rated at 375 lbs. each. I was hesitant about trying these out at first because of the load rating. After installing them I think there is nothing to worry about.

 

[clemsonfor]

They really were not that bad price wise. My old tires were coming apart literally. The sidewall was cut by a stem while hauling some logs this summer. It appears the tire pinched a hole in the tube causing a slow leak. I was able to patch and use the old tube with the new tires though. The tubes themselves looked to be in good shape except for the small hole. These are 4 ply and rated at 375 lbs. each. I was hesitant about trying these out at first because of the load rating. After installing them I think there is nothing to worry about.

Yea cause what did you say tractor weighs? I lookes 1100lbs! So if you split that your only looking at 550 lbs in the front and probably there is less than that the witht distributin is prolly more like 60/40 or 65/35 back to front. That would leave you 200lbs till the capacity for front ballast, and like you said once you have an implement in the air the front lightens up. I would not worry myself! Like you have figured out.

 

[1401rider]

Yes, I think I will be ok with the tire ratings. The way I figure it I can't go wrong with doing a little research with the experts on this website. I'm not sure about your Yanny, but it doesn't take much to pull the front end up with any weight at all in the back. At this time I only have an extra 50lbs of weight up front bolted under the bumper. It helps a little but my brother inlaw has sprawled across the hood several times while I was moving stumps with my carryall, just to keep the front wheels down.

 

[clemsonfor]

I have about 175#s up front bolted to the bumper. And at about 550ish on the back the front gets light. Im thinking about another 100-150 is when it bout starts to become neutral with out much weight

 

[1401rider]

If I can figure how to bolt my brother inlaw to the front I think I may have my light front end problems solved. But then again, I might have to start all over again and find heavy duty tires for the front. I would be starting from scratch wouldn't I ?