What are the main differences between a standard farming tyre and a forestry tractor tyre? This is the question that you need to ask when you decide to use your normal tractor for deforestation of your fields without replacing your standard tyres.
Using unsuitable equipment can cost you a lot of money, there’s a strong chance that your standard agricultural tyre will not resist for long in the...
Your tractor tyres are worn and must inevitably be changed. Of course, it’s tempting to opt for a cheap or discount agricultural tyre - low-cost, unknown brand - with the evident advantage of an immediate reduction of costs. You may feel like you got a good deal and saved on costs.
But is this really the best choice? In use, will this really be the best option and after a few ploughing...
Did you know that using a good tractor tyre can lead to considerable savings? Up to €4,000 per year depending on the size and quality of the agricultural tyre used.
Agricultural tyres are generally pretty tough and resistant to heavy loads. During harvesting for example, the tyres of your trailers carry heavy loads and your tractor, to which you add increasingly heavy tools, must be capable of handling this increased weight.
However, you must be careful never to exceed the manufacture’s recommendations, the axle load limits and the maximum loaded speed...
Adapting your tyres to your farming activities will enable you to make savings; in one year you could save several thousand euro.
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.
Choosing the right type of tractor or agricultural tyre is not something to be taken lightly. Tyres are costly and have a direct impact on your productivity. If the type you choose is unsuitable to your activities, you will either wear it out quickly or pay too much for it.
To find the tyre that’s most suitable for your tractor, ou should start by looking at how you will use your tyres, to...
To reduce your agricultural tyre budget and prevent your tyres from wearing too rapidly you need to adapt your choice of tyre and adjust your tyres optimally, making it essential to know the loads applied to each axle of your vehicle. It is the load that effectively determines the degree of pressure to your tyres and as such their wear...
In general, your tractor’s pulling power is associated only with its engine power. However, tyres play a fundamental role in improving traction and are widely underestimated or neglected. It is the tyres which transmit your tractor’s power to the ground to generate the tractive force. Your tyres are therefore the sole link between vehicle and ground.
Are your certain that you always know your tractor’s braking capacity? When you drive with a full trailer, have you asked yourself what stopping distance is necessary in the event of emergency braking? Your tractor tyres play a decisive role in your capacity to brake rapidly and certain tyres can help you win a few meters whereas others require almost double the distance for your trailer to come...
