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...
Preparing the structure of the soil is vital to ensure your next crop emerges rapidly and regularly and to facilitate the circulation of vehicles and tooling. Unfortunately, a bad choice of tyre, incorrect tyre pressure or ill-adapted tyre size may squash your ploughing work and result in excessive soil compaction, leading to an uneven surface and overly compacted areas which will reduce the...
The use of power is not always compatible with soil preservation, even if there are numerous types of tyre on the market: radial tyres, high volume tyres or very high flexion (VF) tyres. These technologies allow you to work at low pressure; but wouldn’t dual wheels enable you to go further?
Harvest tyre technology can help you to improve the productivity of your combine harvester, find out how... Maintenance is obligatory for a good start-up and to ensure the machine is in top condition to guarantee a perfect harvest with no breakdowns.
When you start your spring cleaning, think about improving the performance of your harvester and simply by changing your tyres you can increase...
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.
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...
Slippage, compaction or the formation of ruts are often the result of a bad choice of agricultural tyre or the wrong adjustment of the tyres which is not always easy to detect. A close look at your tractor tyre footprint can help you to easily diagnose the use of unsuitable equipment, badly adjusted settings or excessive wear.
Fuel represents an important line in a farm budget (whatever the type of farm). It effectively represents 30% of the global energy consumption in agriculture. To improve your economic performance, it is therefore vital to exercise tight control over fuel costs. For this, several equipment related aspects can be optimised, in particular in relation to your agricultural tyres.
