Re: Mismatched Tires

Posted by Don-Wi on September 09, 2005 at 15:29:05 from (64.12.117.7):

In Reply to: Re: Mismatched Tires posted by Dick L on September 09, 2005 at 07:00:21:

We have done the same thing. The Ollie 1600 I'm restoring now came w/ firestones fomrt he factory. Somewhere along the line my grandpa had Good years installed but then when they were about 50%, one blew out. Still had the old Firestones around so one of those went on. Well, about 7-8 years ago the original Firestone blew out, tractor wasn't doing any hard work just hauling maure in the winter, wasn't worth new tires either. The tire company came and put on a coop that was 50%, much more than the remaining Goodyear that was on it. Just this spring I got my dad to put new rears on. Unfortunately he let them take the Coop which was still in good shape and they gave us $20 back for it. I would rather have held on to it and sold it to some one needing a Coop for 1/2 of what the tire company wanted. Now we gotta keep an eye on our Massey 285,. the side wall has had a tear for a few years now but no tube yet. Our Ollie 1855 needs new ones worse, as we bought it with about 25% tread and it's our plowing tractor. Put new ones on our 165 a couple years back when the sideall finally let go on the Firestone F&R's on one side. Couldn't find a match and needed it now so we bit the bullet and put new Titan's on. Sits quite a bit higher now(about 3-4")
Donovan from Wisconsin

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