daTeacha
Veteran Member
After a discussion somewhere here about distributing weight on the tractor for balance, I emailed my daughter and SIL, who are automotive suspension/brake engineers and have connections with tire guys.
I'll be posting the links they sent when I get a chance to sit down and figure out how to do that, but in the meantime, here's a teaser:
R1 tires are designed for essentially dry soil and ground engaging implements, as we all know
R1W tires have a 25% deeper lug, designed for clay type soils with a lot of moisture
R2 tires have lugs about twice the depth of R1 tires and are intended for rice paddy's and similar wet use. They will not give as much traction as R1s on regular soil and will tend to wear down very quickly.
This is a brief memory based exerpt from the Goodyear Farm Tire handbook which runs to 123 pages.
I always wondered what R2s were. I guess that's what is pictured on some of the gray market Kubota's that look so wicked.
I'll be posting the links they sent when I get a chance to sit down and figure out how to do that, but in the meantime, here's a teaser:
R1 tires are designed for essentially dry soil and ground engaging implements, as we all know
R1W tires have a 25% deeper lug, designed for clay type soils with a lot of moisture
R2 tires have lugs about twice the depth of R1 tires and are intended for rice paddy's and similar wet use. They will not give as much traction as R1s on regular soil and will tend to wear down very quickly.
This is a brief memory based exerpt from the Goodyear Farm Tire handbook which runs to 123 pages.
I always wondered what R2s were. I guess that's what is pictured on some of the gray market Kubota's that look so wicked.