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title: Here’s how your agricultural tyres can save you money
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# Here’s how your agricultural tyres can save you money
Post by: [Tractor tyre expert](https://blog.bridgestone-agriculture.eu/author/tractor-tyre-expert) | 30 October 2017
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> Adapting your tyres to your farming activities will enable you to make savings; in one year you could save several thousand euro.
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##### Ok, but saving on what exacly?
**Savings in working time, fuel consumption, maintenance and repairs, in operating losses and in investment costs.**
By controlling the technical elements of your tyres, **you can make real savings**.
## 1. Your agricultural tyres; saving you money, time and fuel
These economies are due to efficient motricity. These are the elements required to achieve this motricity:
- The **right size** of tyre for your tractor, its working activities and the type of soil.
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- The **right pressure** for maximum contact with the soil and to avoid damage to tyres. To maximise the contact with the soil, it’s a good idea to use wide tyres.
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- **Avoid extra spinning:** here too it’s essential to adapt tyre pressure to the load and to the speed. Tests carried out by [Firestone](https://apps.apple.com/app/id924824224) have proven that adapting tyre pressure can divide the slip ratio by two (from 23% to 12%) and reducing fuel consumption by 10%. You should aim for a slip ratio at around 12 to 15%.
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- The **choice of technology:** with the **IF and VF** technical standards, savings are multiplied. An increased load capacity of up to 40% is a time saver. Pressure adapted to the load and to the driving speed: enabling you to work with the same pressure in the fields and on road saves time.
## 2. Save money on maintenance and repairs
These cost savings are the result of managing your tyres to maximise their lifespan and protect the other mechanical parts:
- **Inspect your tyres regularly** to anticipate repairs and increase their lifespan. See the sheet on 10 inspection points in 10 minutes.
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- **Identify the signs of abnormal wear** to avoid vibrations, over wearing and breakage to other mechanical parts. Sometimes it’s incorrect mechanical adjustment that reduces the lifespan of your tyres! See the fact sheet for identifying abnormal wear.
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- **Follow the rules for storing and handling tyres** (avoiding oil stains, winter storage, after winter, etc.). See the summary of guidelines.
## 3. Savings by avoiding profit loss and investment costs
These are savings in soil quality, tyre technology and financial services:
- **Poorly adjusted tyre pressure** can lead to soil compaction. This will be detrimental to your yield and therefore to your per hectare profit margin: the INRA (French national body for agronomic research) has shown that soil compaction can reduce your profit margin by up to 14% on a wheat crop. Check the fact sheet to manage your tyre pressure.
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- **The right technology for the best results...** sometimes spending more on your tyre can cost less in the long term than buying a cheap tyre.
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- Most manufacturers give you the possibility of **buying your tyres in interest-free instalments over a few years for**. Check with your tyre service provider.
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### If you would like to learn more,
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