Tyres have continued to evolve constantly since the invention of the agricultural tyre by Harvey Firestone in 1930, the tyre having never ceased to adapt to serve the needs of farmers better. Over long periods of time, trends take shape which make it possible to define exactly what works best and what allows you to really improve productivity and yields. This kind of information lets you know...
In wet conditions, work in the fields can easily become problematic when you don’t have the self-cleaning capacity of your tractor tyres or implements under tight control. Slip effectively always begins with too much earth accumulating between the tyre lugs without you really knowing why. Yet when you start to slip, working gets complicated, the tyres seal over the soil, there is loss of...
It’s true that it’s quicker to opt for average inflation pressure, irrespective of the load linked to your implements or trailers. However, how can you be sure that you won’t overload your tractor tyres with implements that are too heavy, running the risk of the tyres wearing more rapidly, or worse still, causing damages which could result in the tyres having to be replaced? Careful load...
You work with very powerful machines equipped with heavy implements and you would like to improve your productivity while preserving your soil from compaction, to guarantee future yields. With standard tyres you are obliged to increase tyre inflation considerably to compensate for load, making these tyres incompatible with your soil preservation objectives. You have two remaining options,...
Wear is certainly one of the main problems faced by your agricultural tyres, because obviously if this wear is rapid, you will be forced to buy new tyres, leading to increasingly high costs. Daily pressure adjustments, pressure checks based on load or adapting pressure to take account of the surface on which you travel may appear to be very secondary tasks, which are often considered optional...
It’s true that agricultural tyres all look alike and it may appear difficult to choose between the models on offer, because there is no similarity between the price of a standard tyre and a top-of-the range tyre. It would be very easy to draw up a parallel with the luxury goods sector where we are used to finding commodity items with prohibitive prices just because of the prestigious brand name....
After mechanisation costs, recurrent expenses linked to equipment certainly represent an expense item to which any member of an equipment sharing cooperative may turn to improve results at the end of the year. Better management of equipment can effectively be a real source of savings if you follow a few simple rules, or if the equipment is always used in the right conditions. Agricultural tyres...
Making your operators more aware of good tyre management practices may seem secondary, but the role of the tyre is much more important than you imagine for successful operations in the fields. This is the reason why a minimum amount of team training is necessary to control your tyre budget and make considerable savings by reducing tyre replacements linked to wear, by reducing fuel consumption...
For agricultural contracting companies, investing more in tractors to obtain more efficient machines is a particularly profitable choice, especially if you have a large fleet. Equipping your vehicles with tyre inflation systems is clearly a way of making real savings, but it also helps to build customer loyalty. The main argument is soil preservation on your clients’ land together with quality...
