In the agricultural world, one out of three accidents involves agricultural machinery (rollovers, activities carried out underneath electrical wires, road accidents inter alia..). More specifically, each year, accidents involving vehicle overturning cause 20 to 30 deaths.
Tractor rollovers occur following a loss of contact between ground and tyre. The notion of ground/tyre contact differs...
The agricultural equipment sector is committed to seeking perpetual innovations to offer its clients equipment which complies with standards and offers comfort and safety.
Suspended front axle and cab, braking system with yaw control, electronic stability programmes are all part of the equipment and devices available to help limit vibrations and loss of ground/tyre contact.
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When they design a tyre, constructors anticipate a specific adapted working pressure to get the best performance from agricultural tyres. This pressure can vary over time depending on the temperature, the load and the tyre’s condition.
Do you really know how to establish the right slip ratio for your tractor? If the slip ratio is too low, the tractor cannot generate the right tractive force. On the other hand, if slippage is too high this will be very costly, since it increases your fuel consumption and wear to your tyres.
Sprayers, whether towed or self-propelled, drive repetitively and always in the same part of a field. This is why it is particularly important to choose the right tyres to reduce the impact of your machine’s wheels on your crops in the driving zones, limit loss of yield and increase your productivity.
Each agricultural tyre has specific characteristics (size, profile, brand, performance indexes…). This information, provided by the constructor, must be fully understood to be adapted to the farm machine (tractor, combine, forestry… tyres) and to its use.
Seasonal machinery often needs to be stored at some stage in the year and tyres are no exception. As winter is coming, here are a few rules which will help you to store store your agricultural tyres in the best conditions and prolong their lifespan.
The creation of ruts is a problem that frequently arises in orchards, vineyards and forest environments, where there are repetitive passages of farm machinery on the same spots during treatment and harvesting periods, sometimes in wet conditions.
Ruts can also occur in field crop contexts. Rut creation is often confused with soil compaction and while the two are related, they are usually not...
During wood hauling operations in the forest, choose forestry tyres that are adapted to your needs in order to improve work efficiency. During logging, once the trees have been cut, hauling operations take place to transport the felled trees to their storage area.
The forestry tyre represents a sensitive stage of operations. In the old days, wood hauling was done using horses, whereas nowadays...
