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Doggy Diaper Designer
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Location: WI | Have you found any tires that hold up better then others? |
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Extreme Veteran
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| This debate could potentially go for days. Some prefer a "trailer tire" and some prefer a "truck tire" mounted on a trailer. I'm a trailer tire man myself. The most plies you can afford in an American made tire would be my first choice. There is one set of chinese tires that I run on my cow trailer. They are a Wanli. Sounds hokey I know. I would consider running them on my horse trailer as well. I have several tires in service all the time. A tire guy comes to the house to mount and balance all my tires. He recommended the Wanli. I put them on my cow trailer, because it normally goes on short hauls. I have been pleased with their performance.
IMHO, a truck tire will get hot on a long haul. |
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  Texas Lone Star
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | I've had good luck with Hancook, Michellin(if you can afford them) and Yokohama. I'm getting ready to buy new trailer tires Hancooks for $315 each. |
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Sock Snob
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| Make sure you get enough plys at least 10 would go 12 if i could.
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| Trailer tires are built to have stiff and tuffer sidewalls, higher weight capacity on each tire on the ground and to run straight ahead where truck tires are built exactly the opposite.
Tires mounted on a trailer have no turning ability ... when you turn a corner they 'scoot' on the road surface to follow the path of the truck. .. Turning a sharp U-turn is the most harmful thing you can do to your trailer tires .. stop half way through a U-turn and go look at the crunched sidewalls on your trailer tires creating massive bruises and striations in the sidewalls. You can also see the scoot marks your trailer tires have made while making the turn. (truck tires are built to flex in the sidewalls which compounds the damage they receive as trailer tires). These invisible bruises and striations are just sitting there waiting on a chance to blow out when you are the farthest from help.
#1 Thing .. is to keep any tire on your trailer at maximum pressure .. the stiffer the sidewall the less flex in the sidewall when it scoots in a turn and keeping the shape of the tire with maximum pressure allows them to carry their rated weight which keeps them from over heating and blowing out. If it calls for 35psi or 65psi or 85psi that is the cold pressure you air them up to ... a hot tire will show 5-7psi more than a cold tire which is normal.
NOTE FYI: Look on sidewall of truck tires for weight rating .. typical truck tires are around 1,750 to 2,000 lbs per tire. Trailer tires usually start at 2750 lbs and increases as you buy higher priced tires to 3,200-3,500 lbs.
Compare truck to trailer tires by multiplying one tire by 4 tires that will be on the trailer ... the number you get equals the maximum weight you should carry on your trailer ... this should convince you to buy trailer tires!!
Don't forget the 1000 to 1500 lbs of misc junk you carry along .. after adding junk, horses, tack, and trailer weight ... I like to have my total weight to be 80% of the weight you got above on all 4 tires on the ground. i.e. 4 tires x 3000=12,000 x 0.80= 9,600 lbs of total trailer weight that I would feel comfortable with .. your tires determine how much trailer load you can have.
US RIDER is the only one that includes wrecker, help service on any type of trailer or truck that you happen to own or be riding in .. they have saved me several times with no problems on services rendered or additional charges.
Edited by BARRELHORSE USA 2015-03-08 9:03 PM
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Gettin Jiggy Wit It
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| Round ones made of rubber. |
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Extreme Veteran
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| You might look at going to a 17.5 inch rim, if your trailer fender will accommodate it. Far more "commercial" applications for that size tire. You will probably be able to buy a tire, and rim cheaper than you can get just a tire. Then, in future you'll be set. I think the horse trailer companies are in bed with the tire companies. They will tell you it gets your trailer closer to the ground for loading horses.
I am slowly converting all of my equipment trailers to 17.5. |
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Location: Texas | Hankooks |
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Expert
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | We use Firestone on both of our trailers and our truck. |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | daisycake123 - 2015-03-08 5:45 PM Make sure you get enough plys at least 10 would go 12 if i could.
Don't give this advice if you have no idea what trailer the OP is putting tires on. If I put 10 or 12 ply tires on my trailer I wouldn't make it very far down the road. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Roping pen | We are hearing a lot of great things about these:
http://www.boarwheel.com/
Have one top 10 barrel racer been using them for several years and nothing but good to say in over 300k miles on big LQs.
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 A very grounded girl
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Location: Moving soon..... | Aqhaczy - 2015-03-08 4:19 PM I've had good luck with Hancook, Michellin(if you can afford them) and Yokohama. I'm getting ready to buy new trailer tires Hancooks for $315 each. Before you get those Hancooks, you may want to check into another tire. We purchased a set for my husband's truck. Highway mileage. We barely got 30,000 miles on the set. I was very disappointed because I was told they were so good. I will not buy any more Hancooks.
I bought a set of Yocahomas for my truck and have had them almost 4 years and they have worn very even. I believe I have over 45,000 on them.
Edited by Karol 2015-03-09 11:01 AM
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