BKT Tyres?

Muck Spreader

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Limousin
Nothing wrong with BKT's for the money, got them on 3 tractors with a forth on Firestone. But at the end of the day you get what you pay for, if you need top performance you pay top money and go for Michelin, if you don't BKT's are a very acceptable mid priced tyre.
 

Henery

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South shropshire
Tried BKT on the Merlo, after the original Mitas, lasted roughly half the hours of the Mitas. Don’t hear anything but good things as far as tractor tyres go tho. I have Michelins on an Arion 640 2010 , 10k hours and still have 25% left…. Just cracking badly , which may be age as much as hours.
 

Optimus

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North of Perth
Tried BKT on the Merlo, after the original Mitas, lasted roughly half the hours of the Mitas. Don’t hear anything but good things as far as tractor tyres go tho. I have Michelins on an Arion 640 2010 , 10k hours and still have 25% left…. Just cracking badly , which may be age as much as hours.
I have Michelin on the merlo.still plenty tread on them it's an 18 plate 4500 hours.90% yard work,way better than the mitas ones we used to put on them.
 
How do you know the difference?

Local tyre fitter says BKT need replacing at about 30% as grip becomes very poor.

Bar width?
Sure he's not talking about the trelleborgs? That's the problem we had,the bars get twice the width as they wear and don't bite in anymore. The load and speed rating is on the tyre,higher the number to the higher the weight per tyre, the letter following it is the speed, A being slowest D/E fastest eg 155D in ours are a medium weight carrying good for 65k
 

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Sure he's not talking about the trelleborgs? That's the problem we had,the bars get twice the width as they wear and don't bite in anymore. The load and speed rating is on the tyre,higher the number to the higher the weight per tyre, the letter following it is the speed, A being slowest D/E fastest eg 155D in ours are a medium weight carrying good for 65k
He did say trelleborgs, which I have on, do get rounded bars and wider so do struggle , luckily here it's soft anyway so grip isn't usually an issue.

Was yesterday on some steep I was baling, sideways grip was issue 😲

Lots have said BKT have to come off at 30% due to lack of grip. Maybe same issue as Trelleborgs?
 
He did say trelleborgs, which I have on, do get rounded bars and wider so do struggle , luckily here it's soft anyway so grip isn't usually an issue.

Was yesterday on some steep I was baling, sideways grip was issue 😲

Lots have said BKT have to come off at 30% due to lack of grip. Maybe same issue as Trelleborgs?
Alliance tyres step out wider as they wear other wise I was tempted to try them. Bkt look good to me so far IMG-20220513-WA0001.jpg
 

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Alliance tyres step out wider as they wear other wise I was tempted to try them. Bkt look good to me so farView attachment 1056409
Pays your money takes your choice.

I've always spec'd Michelin on new tractors but the ex demo was on trelleborgs, lasting well so happy.

When I replaced last set Michelin with discount and cash back was similar price to BKT. So was a no brainer tbh.

You hear horror stories with most makes
 
Pays your money takes your choice.

I've always spec'd Michelin on new tractors but the ex demo was on trelleborgs, lasting well so happy.

When I replaced last set Michelin with discount and cash back was similar price to BKT. So was a no brainer tbh.

You hear horror stories with most makes
Bkt might be noisier on the road? Shut the windows and turn the radio up cured that. Newer trelleborgs are different design now but at 2 1/2 times the price I wasn't going to try them
 

BigBarl

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Arable Farmer
Location
South Notts
I’ve never been a fan of the trelleborgs, always find the rubber cracks and doesn’t last very long. We’ve had various BKT fitted over the years and all have been great with no complaints. our main tractors are on on Michelin at the minute as that’s how they came from the factory but If I was retreading a tractor doing similar hours to you I don’t think I could justify the extra for Michelin, I’d be straight down the BKT route.
 

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
I’ve never been a fan of the trelleborgs, always find the rubber cracks and doesn’t last very long. We’ve had various BKT fitted over the years and all have been great with no complaints. our main tractors are on on Michelin at the minute as that’s how they came from the factory but If I was retreading a tractor doing similar hours to you I don’t think I could justify the extra for Michelin, I’d be straight down the BKT route.
Always worth pricing various options.

Bridgestone is the a good option I was told as well. By an independent btw
 

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