Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 30, 2009 at 12:03:07 from (209.226.247.127):
In Reply to: Tire tread wear posted by Gauger on January 29, 2009 at 13:30:32:
Gauger: To give you some idea of the load factor. I once bought some hay out of the field about 15 miles from home. I went with Farmall 300, tires loaded and one set of wheel weights and two 20' wagons. We piled on 420 x 40 lb. bales. I had a long hill to climb on way home, road was chip sealed. Before I started up the hill, I debated with myself whether I should separate the wagons and climb the hill one at a time. In the end I decided the old 300 was up to the task. Once into the hill I couldn't quit. The tires were leaving tread marks, close to 3" wide, basically every tread that hit the road slipped 3". I started the hill in 3rd gear high on TA, never did shift TA, but I can tell you that mile seemed to take forever. What I was seeing as I looked behind tires was little shavings of black rubber on the road. It left black tread marks that stayed there for weeks. That one trip did make a noticable difference on those tires, and most of it occured right on that hill.
Not many people saw that happen, I really never said much about it. I did hear some quite fantastic stories around the community speculating on how this might have happened.
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