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Ok, only partially true So you guys riding on big meats like 14's 15's and the like....Where are you getting them? I supose the regular places such as Boyce Equiptment and the like..... but when you decide to go these routes, are their sources for these tires NEW from some Truck or Tractor Co. in other words can you go down to Jimbo's truck tire shop and order them NEW and not GL stuff?
It seems that I would want a better source than only surpluss, something you could count on for years to come. A large Equiptment tire or something. The other day I was driving to the VA and in front of me was a Crane and his ontarague of boom carrier, lead truck, and rear truck with block and stuff etc. Anyway as I got up close to the Crane which was somewhat shaped in the Cab area like a Hmmett (whatever the letters are) and while he never came to a stop the tires being unreadable because of the still spinning, anyway, I thought the size and width and tread would be perfect for the Bobbers. Too bad he never cane to a complete stop so I could read the sidewall. But they would also have been a different bird, as they were somewhat lower profile, mabe 5-6 inches lower overall in heigth, more so then 14 or 15's and wider by a bit, mabe 5-6 inches. That might have become a lock to lock problem, hard to say. Any way it may be a better choice in the future to find something not so obsolete and increasingly unobtainable.
It seems that I would want a better source than only surpluss, something you could count on for years to come. A large Equiptment tire or something. The other day I was driving to the VA and in front of me was a Crane and his ontarague of boom carrier, lead truck, and rear truck with block and stuff etc. Anyway as I got up close to the Crane which was somewhat shaped in the Cab area like a Hmmett (whatever the letters are) and while he never came to a stop the tires being unreadable because of the still spinning, anyway, I thought the size and width and tread would be perfect for the Bobbers. Too bad he never cane to a complete stop so I could read the sidewall. But they would also have been a different bird, as they were somewhat lower profile, mabe 5-6 inches lower overall in heigth, more so then 14 or 15's and wider by a bit, mabe 5-6 inches. That might have become a lock to lock problem, hard to say. Any way it may be a better choice in the future to find something not so obsolete and increasingly unobtainable.
the weight ratings go up real fast for big tires. IIRC, the 395 goodyears i have are 9300lb rating. large industrial tires can have incredibly high ratings. as much as those huge hydraulic boom crane weigh, i wouldn't be surprised if the tires were upwards of 20k rated...
