Little Farmer: Tire shops doing fluid changes are going to be harder to find. Very few new tractors are using fluid, and almost none used in tractors over 60 hp. When a need disappears, so will the service. Fluid loaded tires have been a major cause of soil compaction, thus the smart farming industry has gone to more rubber on the ground for traction.
If you want to beat the cost of tires go with duals. I bought a new 1066 in 1975, it destroyed it's first set of 20.8x38 fluid loaded tires in roughly 1,000 hours of operation. I dualed the tractor with the same brand and grade of 20.8x38 tires and got 9,000 hours on duals and no fluid. It actually pulled better in field conditions.
I did much the same with a 656, came new with 15.5x38 fluid filled tires. At replacement time I changed them to 16.9x38 with no fluid, a huge change in rubber on the ground. I actually pulled a 5x16 plow with the 16.9x38, never even tried with the fluid filled 15.5x38. Those larger tires made a tractor out of my 656.
Another way to beat tire cost, is keep tractors off hard roads, especially black top. Tractor and tires were engineered for field work, trucks and their tires were built for hard road hauling. I quite often ran my tractors onto a trailer for as little as a 5 mile move to another field. No one was allowed to bring a tractor home for lunch, or even at the end of the day, if tractor was going to work in same field next day. Keep your tractor off hard roads as much as possible, it will save you a lot of money.
Even today I have same situation with these little offsets I run. With fluid filled 9.5x24 they had difficulty with a 2x12 plow. I've plowed some quite heavy going with 12.4x24 and no fluid. Someone asked me if my 130 and 140 were noisy in high gear. I don't know, or at least can't remember, been 5 years since I had either one in high gear. If I have to go down the road, trailer works fine, and I have the truck to come home for lunch.
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