Combines heavy combines max tire load

Hello Brian you are so right about the tracs Cat is way ahead when making it a option with tracs and I to have cabin fever all these -20 days get old.later Frans

Everyone needs to remember all tire companies allow increase loading on tires when they are under cyclic loading. Radial tire 70% increase in load with 6 more PSI, Bias 87% increase with 30% more inflation. If you need more flotation I would consider looking at large flotation tires. This past fall I ran across some pictures of 2 JD 9860 running side by side in some very wet corn ground. One machine had 76x50.00-32 flotation tires and the other had 20.8R42 duals. The flotation tires were not rutting the field while the duals were rutting the field. The farmer finally decided he was doing too much damage with the duals, so he parked the machine. The flotation tires can carry the same load with 10-15 less psi. If anyone does purchase a Class 8 or very heavy machine in areas that are wet I would strongly recommend purchasing the flotation option (Front 76x50.00-32 Rear 28l-26). It cost more, but you can get into fields sooner, and you can always swap tires if you order a new machine. FYI Flotation tires cost per hour is significantly lower then tracks.

I agree, flotation tires would be the best tire option.... Disagree with your insinuation they are better than tracks..... In my experience....Am guessing you sell tiresIJIJIJ Ask guys north of hwy 7 Mn if big tires or tracks got the job doneIJ Am not married to lexion or cat, but if other colors would make them an option, we would consider purchase..... FYI: we traded yellow_w tracks and bigger machine for less money_acre than guys on machinery talk were posting on rollin 2388's in Iowa........No offense red, still love our 2nd Machine!

I have never had experince with tracks on combines so I do not know how they act but I have had experince with tracks on big tractors and I will argue for ever around here the tracks keep moving and the biggest float tires will not I have tryed many tire combinations and tracks all ways come out on top you couldn't give me wheels over tracks.

Rubber tracks aren't worth anything around here when it's really muddy. Clay gets between the track and the drive wheel and slicks it over, then it just spins inside the track. A few years back a guy actually walked a track off a Cat tractor in the middle of a muddy field. Now that was a mess. We run a lot of tracked tractors down here, but when it's really muddy those stay under the shed. Rubber tracks are fine on sand or in soft ground around here, but not true mud. May be fine in other places with lighter ground. Floatation tires, again, are good on soft ground or for no-till, but in true clay mud they tend to slick over and spin on top of the mud. Combine won't pull itself up out of the field. Duals, unless they are spaced out wide, will ball up and slick over. Here in rice country the best tire option is 35.5x32 R2 on the front, and a 23.1x26 R2or 28l26 R2 on the back. Yeah, it tears up the field, but it keeps the combine moving. If I run into anything my 35.5's won't handle, its time to put on the steel tracks. Just $.02 from a rice farmer who's "been there, done that."

You don't have that problem with the quad tracs they are positive drive with spoke driver I also have been there and done that tryed out cat and you are right just smoked in the belt as far as tires we have had 20.8. dualed and tripled and 900metrics single and dualed and all in the feild at same time and this was black mud and clay with water in the ruts and the only thing that would go was the Quads , been there done that several times finally got rid of all wheeled machines for Quads would never go back to wheels we sometimes take out vegetable crops under all conditions even 6" of rain sometimes water up to the rock boxes.

Would agree.....4 tracks definately better than 2...Ill have to defend the little kitty's in relation to mud....many changes have taken place in the past 5 years with drivers....BUT.....in real sticky situations they s-ck at turning.... HEY CASE......BUIlD A ROW CROP QUAD!!!!!!!! (maybe they do not want to put track JD, CAT or agcoIJ, out of business!)