IRL, do farmers always change their tractor tires for different tasks, or have multiple tractors?

[Lymark]

Saved enough $$ and about to replace my old tractors, since I have crop destruction mod on, I suddenly curious how often do real life farmers change their tires(wider/narrow) for their jobs if at all? it would be time wasting having to constanly change their tires, but then it seems unreasonable to own multiple tractors for certain specific tasks?

[zzirSnipzz]

you would put rowcrops on when spraying or potatoesd i see sometimes and wide tyres if on field spreading etc but you dont change them all the time

[Bobby]

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Publicado originalmente por Lymark:

But, how do they deal with crop destruction if narrow tires are rarely used?

Crop destruction??? So narrow tires sink in soft ground and in real life would likely cause a bigger issue in your field....

How you avoid crop destruction is dont drive in the crops!

Which is *impossible* if your crop spraying.
Which is why you do use narrow wheels and this
http://www.caseih.com/northamerica/en-us/products/application-equipment/patriot-series-sprayers

The cab-forward, rear-engine design allows the machine to provide an extremely light footprint, yet maintain powerful performance.
The even weight distribution allows you to get into the field sooner and on to the next with less rutting and soil compaction.

[Tater Snaps]

Publicado originalmente por Lymark:

Saved enough $$ and about to replace my old tractors, since I have crop destruction mod on, I suddenly curious how often do real life farmers change their tires(wider/narrow) for their jobs if at all? it would be time wasting having to constanly change their tires, but then it seems unreasonable to own multiple tractors for certain specific tasks?

Actually - growing up on a farm and understanding the dire effect tires can have on crops i can tell you with certainty that both of the scenarios are correct.

We had tractors that were used for specific tasks - like the Farmall - H was strictly a crop cultivating tractor - outfitted with harrows that sat between the front and real wheels and a set that was attached to the 3 point hits in the back - both lowered and actully the back set had removabel man seats that 2 people could sit on the back of the harrow and operate little cultivators by hand to go in between each individual tobacco plant.

We had spray tractors that we moved all the weight we could with very narrow tires once setup never changed.

Our larger field trators hoever depending on what they were being used for we would change the tire locations more than the actual tire widths. Most of the stndard 4 wheel tractors the front mounting units are sliding allowing you to adjust the width of the wheels. The rear tires the hubs are concave so depending which diretion you put them on you could have narrow width unit or a wide width unit. if you put them on the narrow side you could add a second set (like a dual wheel pickup truck) or just have a very narrow setup.

It was more common however that the tractor tire hubs allowed for weigth attachments. and we would attach hub weights to the wheels themselves to give the units mroe traction when plowing ect.

Hope some of that helps on insight into a tobacco farm tractor units.

[Vaupell]

I've been working both at a Large farm with mixed crops, but also at a place where people would rent tracktors + equipment + pilot (me) - Not sure what it is called in English but in Danish it's called a "Maskinstation" directly translated into "Machine(or equipment)- Station"

The only time we used narrow tires was when we where spraying
and we always just have one dedicated tractor for that.

Medium tires, only on new tractors i live in a marsh area, so all tracktors use either
the preferable but more exspensive "bubbleWheels" 2.35 ttimes wider than normal.
Or twin mounts.

The clever thing with twinmounts they are relative easy to fit and remove.

But ofcourse my exsperience IRL is limited to the most known brands of both tires and tracktors.
John Deere, Volvo + Valmet, New Holland (ford old tracktors), Case IH.

EDIT- Ohh yes, most of the soil here is either "SILT" extremely loose and annoying_
or close to CLAY making it hard as concrete. In both cases Mixed with water just results in many more hours spendt in the fields than if it was normal soil.

[Sebvargr]

if you are working with ''fake grass'' growing crass, cutting then selling them in rolls some farmers use a different set of tires which have much softer rubber and less tire in them, wich gives the tires a ballony feeling in order to not ruin the grass when fertilizing etc ;) only then you ''need'' different set of tires.... the baloony tires are also good for when soil milling so you wont sink into the dirt...

sorry for the bad english, just woke up xD

[Rev Counter]

Usually farms around where I am (not ours as we don't do arable) have a set of rowcrop wheels that they keep on a tractor for a couple of months just for the spraying season. This way you don't have to buy new ones very often as they stay in the shed a lot. This goes for dual wheels as well, the sit in the shed until needed then are used when the season is right :)