R4 tire wear?

[dirtworksequip]

What kind of hours is anyone getting out of their R4 tires. Fronts & rears?

 

[JJT]

500+ hours in 8 years and the fronts are 50%+. My tractor sees very little road time, maybe 20 miles/yr.

 

[dirtworksequip]

Thanks for your reply. I was just curious of what kind of hours to expect out of R4's. My old 870 had R1's with 1950 hours on the original rears and I had replaced fronts twice.

 

[DK35vince]

910 hours on my R-4's .
I have around 50% fronts and 75% rears

 

[john_bud]

Almost no wear on my rears in 400+ hours. But then again, I have chains on year round for traction in the mud.

Fronts are 90%

Titan's on the front and Firestones on the rear

j

 

[HTWT]

I have turf tires on the rear, but have R4 on front.
I originally had turf in front but they did not hold up well with bucket work so I put R4 on the front (they are the same size as the original turf). I get about 800 hr. before I replace them. I have 4700 hours on my NH 1620. I am always in 4 wheel drive and on and off hard surfaces. I still have my original turf tires in back, but the side walls are showing weather checking tread is still 50% or better.

 

[Dirthog]

Over 800 hr on rear and real good yet and replaced the front once at about 450 on my L48 but do a lot of heavy loader work on the blacktop.

 

[rswyan]

Almost 800 hours on my B2910 - the rears are hardly worn at all and the fronts are at probably at only 30% left. I've had slow leaks in the front so they are occassionally under-inflated and probably have driven it on pavement a few times in 4WD, which may have contributed to the high wear.

 

[jwstewar]

I'm at almost 700 hours on my NH TC24. Rears I would guess are probably 80 - 90% left. Fronts are probably 60 - 70% left. Most of the time in grass in 2wd unless doing loader work or something. I'm only on pavement 2 or 3 times of the year when I have to go to the "other side" of our property so I can rough cut it.

 

[jrepp]

Fronts 80% rears same (WAG). 1200 hrs all on grass and sand.

 

[AndyMA]

Fronts 80% rears same (WAG). 1200 hrs all on grass and sand.

I picked this post to illustrate a point. If you only use 20% of wear in 1200 hours then the "projected life" to zero tread left would be 6000 hours. I expect that it will be far less than that. I usually get 1000-1200 hours from my R1's/ Still plenty of tread left, but by then the sidewalls are "rotting" and the tires just give out. I expect that a lot of life expectancy is based on what you are doing with your tires. Lignt duty like mowing and pulling light rear implements will wire tires a lot less that heavy loader and other implement use that results in a lot of side wall flex.

Andy

 

[jinman]

I picked this post to illustrate a point. If you only use 20% of wear in 1200 hours then the "projected life" to zero tread left would be 6000 hours. I expect that it will be far less than that. I usually get 1000-1200 hours from my R1's/ Still plenty of tread left, but by then the sidewalls are "rotting" and the tires just give out. I expect that a lot of life expectancy is based on what you are doing with your tires. Lignt duty like mowing and pulling light rear implements will wire tires a lot less that heavy loader and other implement use that results in a lot of side wall flex.

Andy

Andy, you raise a good point about wear and total hours, but I would sure say I agree with jrepp on his estimate. My R4s are only slightly worn at 1200 hours. I should get my ruler out and measure mine and brand new ones the next time I go to the dealer, but I'd say only 20% treadwear is what I'm seeing, maybe less. The condition of the casings is a different story, but mine are holding up very well in spite of being in the TX sun. Is it possible that winter temperatures, snow, and maybe chemical exposure are more damaging to the rubber causing cracks and deterioration? I don't know, but I think I'll check on this some more.

 

[BTDT]

As I've seen in someone's quote at the bottom of entry, "your mileage may vary". I have a Ford 1300 bought new in 83 that still has lots of tread, but as some have said they begin to weather rot. Then I've seen new rental equipment with bumps for tread.

 

[Raddad]

I had 4000 hours on my R1s on a B7100 in 20 years of use with allot of it on the road. It was stored in a barn away from UV light and they had no dry rot at all. They however did look like slicks with very little tread left.