Combine and Grain Cart Tires: A Quick Guide to Alliance’s Harvest Tires

We’re dedicated to making application-specific tires that meet the real-world challenges our customers face. With harvest fast approaching, we’re reminded that our ag customers have a variety of needs, face unique issues, and operate within different budgets—after all, a farmer with 500 acres has different demands than one with 5,000. This is why we have a combine and grain cart tire for every customer.

Minimizing the Expense of Soil Compaction

Farming is a tough business. As we've seen again and again this year, uncontrollable factors such as weather and commodity prices can upset even the best-laid plans—turning bumper crops into busts and high hopes into low margins in a matter of minutes. Because there are so many components of the business farmers can’t manage, it’s critical to take control of what they can. Two such factors farms can affect are cost and compaction, which are more closely linked than you might expect.

Prepare Your Combines Tire for Harvest

With so many things in farming that you can’t control—for example, weather, input costs, and commodity prices—it’s important to take charge of what you can. This is particularly true during make-or-break periods such as harvest. With today’s combines capable of carrying upwards of 25,000 pounds of weight, you’re asking a lot of their tires. Consequently, you’ll want to take steps to ensure they’re in top working condition before the big event to maximize productivity and avoid unplanned downtime.

Stop Stubble Damage From Haunting Your Tires

Petrified by thoughts of bad weather and low yields, harvest can be a scary time for farmers. Another terrifying challenge facing farmers during harvest is the haunted house their tractors, combines, and implements are tasked with working in. The ghost of corn and soybean past (residue) lurks in the fields, waiting to wreak spooky and disruptive damage to tires. The result? Downtime due to punctures.

As of Jan 1, 2021, Alliance Tire Group and Alliance Tire Americas, Inc. changed their names to Yokohama Off-Highway Tires and Yokohama Off-Highway Tires America, Inc respectively. The Alliance, Galaxy and Primex brands and product names remain unchanged. Product information is available at www.yokohama-oht.com.

The new Alliance Agriflex+ 372 VF CFO tire from Alliance Tire Group is rated to carry 186 percent of the load of a comparably sized standard radial tire when operating at harvest speeds of under 10 mph. The new tire is a VF800/65R32 CFO, which replaces the 30.5R32 tires commonly found on many grain carts and Class V, VI and VII harvesters. It is rated for loads as high as 26,370 pounds when used in cyclic conditions, such as harvest.