Forestry tires ?

Madman_Mark · Dec 29, 2003

Where's a good place to find forestry tractor tires ?
Are they worth buying ?

AndyMA · Dec 29, 2003

You may want to try Galaxy Tire, a manufacturer and importer of tires including forestry tires. They will sell direct to you. If you spend a lot of time around cut trees and brush forestry tires have tougher sidewalls and casings to resist damage. www.galaxytire.com

Andy

slowzuki · Dec 30, 2003

The local dealer doesn't like them at all, he says they cost twice as much but don't seem to be much tougher. I don't have personal experience with them. The motto when working for my farmer neighbour is cut stumps flush or flat!

Ken

AndyMA · Dec 30, 2003

I have no personal experience with them. All I know is that everybody I know with a log skidder uses them and they go places and cut up tires much worse than I could get away with. From what I've seen they have steel belted sidewalls where from my experience all my cuts in the woods have occurred.

Andy

Henro · Dec 30, 2003

Mark,

Are you considering those tires for puncture resistance or because they may give superior traction?

If you are worried about punctures, perhaps foam filling you tires would be the most cost effective solution...

bubenberg · Dec 30, 2003

Try this site Gensco tires . some of my farmers friends have used various of their products and had yet to replace one of them.

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theonlybull · Dec 30, 2003

a customer of ours runs a Fiat tractor 5 day's a week, doing silvaculture, and that's all he runs. the tractor is 12 years old and he put the forrestry tires on it in the first year, because the factor tires didn't stand up. now 11 years later, he just replaced the front set of tires, if that doesn't say something, i don't know what does

pekabu · Dec 31, 2003

When my father was running skidders he ran Firestone Forestry Specials. My father in law has run some Galaxys on his skidders, and they were no comparison to the firestones. The were cheaper though.

EdwardSeeley · Jan 17, 2004

Try Lyons Equipment, they are a major Logging supply company in the Northeast with stores in 5 states. Phone # for their Little Valley NY store is 716-938-9175. Forrestry tires are in a different league than farm tires as far as puncture resistance, don't let anyone tell you differently.