Posted 12/20/2024 23:21 (#11019408 - in reply to #11019374) Subject: RE: Drone video of Palouse wheat harvest
Southeast Washington
johnypop - 12/21/2024 20:17
Very interesting, wouldn’t regular tractor tires work better on those side hills ? Just curious why the turf tires.
For the current John Deere combines the tractor tires don't have a high enough load rating as the diamond tread tires and the Alliance tires so your won't see tractor tires in the newer Deere's.
Then it all falls in soil type. Soft ground will run diamond tread and the hard ground will run tractor tires. We have had ground and have no desire to have diamond tread again. They won't hold our hills and are like a greased up cookie sheet as the combine slides down the hills. We had to run log skidder tire chains on our diamond tread tires to hold the hill. The tractor tires will bite through the stubble to get to the ground to hold the combine. The opposite is the case on soft ground. The tractor tires week paddle the dirt away and float the combine down the hill while the diamond tread will stay on top and bite disturb the dirt.
Drone video of Palouse wheat harvest
