Should I sell my ag tires or keep them around for a rainy day?

[Ginormous]

When I bought my YM1700, it came with turf tires mounted and the original ag rims/tires were included. Would you suggest hanging onto the ag tires or should I just sell them off? I know the Hoye turf tire descriptions says that they have better traction with the turf tires except in very sloppy conditions. Thoughts?

 

[ultrarunner]

When I bought my YM1700, it came with turf tires mounted and the original ag rims/tires were included. Would you suggest hanging onto the ag tires or should I just sell them off? I know the Hoye turf tire descriptions says that they have better traction with the turf tires except in very sloppy conditions. Thoughts?

Last month I wished for Ag tires... it was unusually wet and my tires would pack with wet adobe soil and there was nothing I could do till things dried some.

 

[clemsonfor]

Unless your hardup for cash id say keep in a out-of-sunlight spot. You may get something like $150ish for the pair. You may be lucky to get that and you may get more, either way its not much money when you look at down the road wanting a set and having to fork out $300+ cause you cant find any used ones around at the time. But my wife calls me a horder, do what you want.

Do you mostly mow your yard or do drit work or bushog with it? If you mow even if you have one tear apart you prolly will want to get another turf tire, but if you do more of the later i would then swap the the ag set if that day ever comes, and sooner if you do more of the latter, cause id have to argue with turfs doing better in loose field dirt.

 

[284 International]

If you're going to mow and sometimes run a scraper down the driveway, keep the turf tires. If you're ever planning on pulling a disk or plow, I would say keep the ag tires. Even in "regular dirt" the ag tires work much better pulling ground engaging implements. Turf tires work fine with a tiller, but don't bite the ground enough for the disk on machines of this size, in my experience, even ballasted.

 

[deepNdirt]

I agree with clemsonfor & 284, and say keep the AG's I wish I had both a set of turfs and the AG's, Both have their purposes and at times I could use each type, with a floor jack and impact tool it only takes about 10 minutes to swap them out, providing both are mounted on rims,

 

[Ginormous]

Thanks. I think I'll keep them for that rainy, sloppy day in the future when I will wish I had them.

 

[boggen]

if they are already mounted on the rims. and just a few bolts to pop off and put on. i would say keep. now if you had to take to a tire shop to be put on rims. it would be a different story.

ya never know though, with a tractor, they are multi-functional. and there might be something come up. and those ag tires will be one of them things that makes a night and day difference for you.

if it comes time to sale for another tractor. it could be a bonus for you.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Good point Boggen. They will be worth lots more to the potential buyer of this tractor when the OP gets ready to upgrade and he WILL upgrade eventually, no doubt about it.

 

[Scotty Dive]

I am new to 4wd tractors but I have a 2020D that I took this past weekend into very steep and very muddy part of my property - we just had 3 inches of rain the night before and I thought it would be a good test to see how my new baby would do. The rice tires are very aggressive and got me out of a lot of messy spots. I did however get stuck - on a 45 down slope and the front tires into a swamp and the rear tires had to climb a vertical rock - it just wasn't going to get itself out. After breaking my HF come along - I called my neighbor over and he brought his Kubota 2620 over. I had about 60 feet of chain so that he did not get into the real deep muddy parts. With his loaded R4 Tires he slipped so much (its was muddy and going up hill ) that he could barely make the chain taught. Not a knock on the Kubota by any means but a testament of how aggressive the rice/ag tires are. My other neighbor brought over a very nice US made come along (I have one on order ) and with my locking in the rear tires and he pulling with the come along we got my tractor out. Where the Kubota was slipping, I just sailed right through it with those ag's like nothing.

I am going with turf tires too but I will hang on to my Ag's and switch them off and on when needed....Keep your Ag's for that just in case time.

 

[cdaigle430]

if they are already mounted on the rims. and just a few bolts to pop off and put on. i would say keep. now if you had to take to a tire shop to be put on rims. it would be a different story.

ya never know though, with a tractor, they are multi-functional. and there might be something come up. and those ag tires will be one of them things that makes a night and day difference for you.

if it comes time to sale for another tractor. it could be a bonus for you.

I agree.