Front tyres + weight blocks

[woodworm]

We run a tractor with 540/65/28 tyres on the front and carry a 500 litre fuel tank to site on the front linkage each morning.
We are having problems with tyres cracking and failing due to the soft tyrewalls. What are others running on the front axle when carrying heavy one tonne weights as is so often seen these days or can anyone recommend a decent tyre which wont give up like our current ones please.

 

[bitwrx]

Have you looked up the speed/load/pressure tables for your tyres?
What pressure are you running? Presumably you pump them up for road work and let them down again when on site?

 

[Will 1594]

More tyres knackered running too soft look at slr

 

[Alwaysworking]

We run a tractor with 540/65/28 tyres on the front and carry a 500 litre fuel tank to site on the front linkage each morning.
We are having problems with tyres cracking and failing due to the soft tyrewalls. What are others running on the front axle when carrying heavy one tonne weights as is so often seen these days or can anyone recommend a decent tyre which wont give up like our current ones please.

That weight shouldn’t cause tyre issues unless the tyres are too soft as others say. Most front links are rated for at least 2tn.
The tank plus 500L of fuel shouldn’t come to much more than 750kg.

A tractor loader would put most of the same pressure on the tyres day in day out before you even lift anything with it!

 

[woodworm]

Have you looked up the speed/load/pressure tables for your tyres?
What pressure are you running? Presumably you pump them up for road work and let them down again when on site?

The tractor only does haulage work, all day, 5 days a week none stop, all year. can do 500 miles a week without trying, which is why we dont adjust the pressures. I am fairly sure we are running them at about 27psi

 

[FarmerFrank88]

We run a tractor with 540/65/28 tyres on the front and carry a 500 litre fuel tank to site on the front linkage each morning.
We are having problems with tyres cracking and failing due to the soft tyrewalls. What are others running on the front axle when carrying heavy one tonne weights as is so often seen these days or can anyone recommend a decent tyre which wont give up like our current ones please.

What brand of tyre are you using and on what tractor

 

[blue power]

If you are running 27psi in the front tyres it’s not lack of pressure that the problem

 

[woodworm]

What brand of tyre are you using and on what tractor

Claas 650 with Tm800's

 

[Lukehaynes]

Trelleborg notorious for side walls cracking.....

Check load and speed rating and correct pressures.

 

[Will 1594]

Put some Nokia’s tr2 on. You won’t wear those out ,

 

[GFA]

Are they cracking just at the back of the tread on the sidewall. I've a set of trelleborg that are wearing really uneven. The rep told me to run with 600 kg on the front at all times to prevent this know of other people with them cracking. Won't be having another set again if I can help it.

 

[goodevans]

Perhaps it's because it red diesel and not white if it is all that roadwork!!

 

[woodworm]

Put some Nokia’s tr2 on. You won’t wear those out ,

Just had a conversation with a good friend/colleague about this type of tyre, they seem to be getting quite popular on tractors doing a lot of road work

 

[woodworm]

Perhaps it's because it red diesel and not white if it is all that roadwork!!
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We follow the law by the letter and all produce goes back to our yard less than 10 miles away. We could not use lorries in our line of work so yes, we do use red, and we use it because its a tractor only job where lorries would not be able to access for much of the year.
Not really a relavant comment but you were not to know the situation

 

[michael N123]

The set of trelleborges on my last tractor disintegrated within 2500 hours and got replaced with BKTs

My new ones came with wider 600 trelleborgs and they appear to be lasting a lot better

 

[Spencer]

My last set of trelleborgs did 6500 hrs on a loader tractor.. really quite happy with them, hopefully the next set will do the same!