Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
Any of you guys consider ground pressure when choosing tires for your compact tractors? After learning more about soil, it seems compaction is major concern that doesn't get discussed much by noobs like us using little tractors for food plots.
I really like my tractor but the one thing that irks me is how tiny (the front tires in particular) are. The tractor is a kubota L3560 which is built quite a bit heavier with stronger hydraulics than most competitors in that compact tractor class with similar horsepower. Figure it weighs about 6k pounds with the loader, bucket and rimguard fill in the rear tires. I'd be a little better if I had chose R4s instead of R1 in this regard but everything I read said "weight and traction are bigger limiting factors than HP and r1s get much better traction". I'm finding now that traction is unlikely to be limiting factor for what I want to do.
Anyone know if there are wider R1 style tires that would fit the factory wheels beyond the standard factory offerings?
I really like my tractor but the one thing that irks me is how tiny (the front tires in particular) are. The tractor is a kubota L3560 which is built quite a bit heavier with stronger hydraulics than most competitors in that compact tractor class with similar horsepower. Figure it weighs about 6k pounds with the loader, bucket and rimguard fill in the rear tires. I'd be a little better if I had chose R4s instead of R1 in this regard but everything I read said "weight and traction are bigger limiting factors than HP and r1s get much better traction". I'm finding now that traction is unlikely to be limiting factor for what I want to do.
Anyone know if there are wider R1 style tires that would fit the factory wheels beyond the standard factory offerings?