BIGGER AND BETTER WHY IMPLEMENT TIRES ARE MOVING TO LARGER DIAMETERS

摘要

NICK PHILLIPPI, national product manager, Alliance Tire Americas Inc.: The growth in the outer diameter size of implement tires is being driven by several forces. The primary one is that equipment keeps getting heavier and faster, which requires a bigger air cushion and new manufacturing technology For decades, we addressed that challenge by building wider tires, getting into larger flotation sizes. But tires have to fit in wheel wells, and farm machinery itself is also getting wider, so now we're coming up against limits on how wide a machine and its tires can be and still be legal. If we can't increase tire width to create a bigger air chamber, the only way to grow is up.