road travel and tire wear

[daTeacha]

Interesting spectrum of answers, once you guys quit picking on Farmwithjunk!

The reason I was wondering is that I once had to tow an 8N about 5 miles to a guy for a rebuild of the engine. Then drove it 5 miles back home and noticed the leading edges of the lugs were worn down some from the trip. I just don't want to use up my tires any faster than I need to. The front R1s are showing more wear than the rears now with about 130 hours on the tractor.

It's planting time and hay cutting time here. There is all kinds of big and small equipment on the roads. Each evening on the way home this week I found myself in a line behind a big piece of ag hardware moving about 20 miles per hour. There were several tractors, mowers, planters, etc. that went past the house yesterday while I was mowing the lawn. I'm not too worried about getting tagged by a car or pickup.

 

[dknarnd]

Just drove my new tractor 5 miles to town and back, had the rears filled up, and I purposely checked the tires before and after the trip for wear; didn't see any wear at all.

 

[Soundguy]

I run my 7610s down the road about 4 miles each way, 1x per month to take care of a pasture... I've been doing this for about 3 ys now... The front tri-ribs and rear ag looks the sae as when i got it..

Soundguy

I have a DX-29 with R1s. I'm on the advisory committee of a new hunting/hiking park taking shape about 3 1/2 miles away. Part of the park is 3 spring fed ponds that will serve as kind of the center for the non-hunting uses like hiking, birding, etc. There is some ground around the ponds that I get to keep mowed as part of the fun of being on the board. I trucked the Cadet over there and mowed it, spending about 2 1/2 hours cutting the grass. It would be more fun and less mowing time if I cut it with the bush hog and trimmed it later with the Cadet.

My question is this -- how much wear will I put on my tires driving 7 miles on chip and seal? Aside from making sure to run in 2wd, any advice about tire pressures for road use? I run about 9 lbs in unloaded tires around my place. I have 130 lb on each rear wheel. Would you recommend taking the weights off? I'll probably take the bucket off but leave the loader frame on, but do you think I should take the whole loader off? The ground is pretty flat compared to my place but not level.

 

[jbrumberg]

I run my tractor down/up 1.3 miles (secondary roads) to the school where I work to till the school's large garden. I have made several runs to the school with my R-1's for various reasons and have not yet noticed any real wear on my tires. Jay

 

[hunterridgefarm]

We are building a house 3 miles from driveway to driveway where we live now. I made the trip 4 times with my L3130 with FEL and boxblade, also filled R1's. I noticed no tread wear.

My problem was traffic. For a little country road there was a lot of traffic and some close calls. I now trailer the bota to the home site for safety reasons. The bad part is by the time I hook the trailer up and load the tractor I could be there if I drove it on the road.

3 and 1/2 miles will take you about 20 min on the tractor. If you don't have traffic concerns then I would put the tractor on the road.

David