lorry tyres on tractor front wheels

slivebloom

Has anyone else thought of putting lorry tyres on a JD6320 13.6-24?
99% of winter work done my JD with front loader is traveling between four small farms.
All road and yard work, which just eats the front tyres. I'm assuming lorry tyres are cheaper than tractor tyres.
Do I need custom rims?

Sam Kade

I driven tractors in the past with front lorry tyres, if the ground is anyway slippy the front of the tractor will be going all over the place.

slivebloom

Sam Kade wrote: »

I driven tractors in the past with front lorry tyres, if the ground is anyway slippy the front of the tractor will be going all over the place.

Were you traveling on road/concrete/mucky yard or grass?

blue5000

OP you might be the first to put them on a JD, but it's not a new idea....

http://www.cheffins.co.uk/lot/1957-bray-2044-4cylinder-diesel-loading-shovel--reg-no-49-518131-vintage-1eo

Grueller

Had lorry tyres on a 5000 years ago and they pulled the steering assunder on her. Too much surface area contacting the ground left the steering heavy and pulled track rod ends out of her for sport. Not sure about with more modern yokes but replacing steering components would eat up any potential saving on tyre wear imo.

rangler1

Grueller wrote: »

Had lorry tyres on a 5000 years ago and they pulled the steering assunder on her. Too much surface area contacting the ground left the steering heavy and pulled track rod ends out of her for sport. Not sure about with more modern yokes but replacing steering components would eat up any potential saving on tyre wear imo.

I had them on a crystal for years, never gave any trouble in the steering even though it did a lot of loader work. I got a local guy to cot the centres of the tractor and lorry wheel with a gas plant and welded them up....didn't look great, but tractor tyres were lasting no length

Nekarsulm

Would you try looking for tyres from a small industrial loader in the right size? Truck tyres won't have the right correlation between the front and rear to allow you use 4wd . Look for tyres with a "Hard Rock lug"

fergus1001

slivebloom wrote:

All road and yard work, which just eats the front tyres.

Are they wearing on one side of the tyre quicker than the other ? Might not think it but tractors need there steering tracked as well

Reggie.

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Would you try looking for tyres from a small industrial loader in the right size? Truck tyres won't have the right correlation between the front and rear to allow you use 4wd . Look for tyres with a "Hard Rock lug"

Or a "sand" tyre