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Pricing up tyres for the Valtra roof mount. Normal forestry crossplys work out about £900 a corner, they are quite narrow and wear quickly. There are forestry radials that will fit but they work out about £1500 a corner. The radials are 600 mm wide and should solve my sinking problems, the tractor weighs 9.5 ton so she's not great on soft ground. But £6k is a huge amount to spend on a set of tyres.

 

Anyone got any thoughts?

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Pricing up tyres for the Valtra roof mount. Normal forestry crossplys work out about £900 a corner, they are quite narrow and wear quickly. There are forestry radials that will fit but they work out about £1500 a corner. The radials are 600 mm wide and should solve my sinking problems, the tractor weighs 9.5 ton so she's not great on soft ground. But £6k is a huge amount to spend on a set of tyres.

 

Anyone got any thoughts?

 

It may be worth having your cases remoulded Tom.

 

Bob

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Pricing up tyres for the Valtra roof mount. Normal forestry crossplys work out about £900 a corner, they are quite narrow and wear quickly. There are forestry radials that will fit but they work out about £1500 a corner. The radials are 600 mm wide and should solve my sinking problems, the tractor weighs 9.5 ton so she's not great on soft ground. But £6k is a huge amount to spend on a set of tyres.

 

Anyone got any thoughts?

 

Do you needforestry crossply? Nasty things on the road. I've been using

Mitchlin Agribib tyres for years on forestry - not roof mount though.

 

Michelin Agricultural Tires

 

I'm currently looking at getting some Trelleborg TM600 for a little massey. Work out a bit cheaper than the agribib but are quite hard wearing.

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Oddly for someone who is "careful" with money, I would unhesitatingly plump for the 600mm wide radials, tyres being essentially the one key limiting factor, irrespective of what vehicle they are fitted to.

But I suppose that is why I am regarded locally as being (a bit) barmy for fitting new(15 odd year ago) 520/70/34 radials to my knackered old 1984 vintage David Brown.

cheers

mth

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Do you needforestry crossply? Nasty things on the road. I've been using

Mitchlin Agribib tyres for years on forestry - not roof mount though.

 

Michelin Agricultural Tires

 

I'm currently looking at getting some Trelleborg TM600 for a little massey. Work out a bit cheaper than the agribib but are quite hard wearing.

 

I was offered 'new take off' Agribibs pretty cheap but was told by a couple of people that they have really thin sidewalls. I ended up spending a world of money on some wide (620 I think) crossplys but they are a nightmare for flat spotting (even overnight) and road work is eating them really fast.

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