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Topic: MFWD front tires

Posted By: Dirt Farmer
Subject: MFWD front tires
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025 at 12:58am

Has anyone switched their wheels side to side making them look backwards on a MFWD tractor that does a lot of road travel and did it make a difference. Did you get more wear life out of the tires. I can only imagine the looks a person may get for doing this but if it works it works.

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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025 at 7:10am

Dirt Farmer wrote:

Has anyone switched their wheels side to side making them look backwards on a MFWD tractor that does a lot of road travel and did it make a difference. Did you get more wear life out of the tires. I can only imagine the looks a person may get for doing this but if it works it works.

I switched mine one year when going from planting work to haying work. I didn’t stick with the plan long enough to say personally, but they say it’s supposed to help. Makes sense, but…

Posted By: Acguywill
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025 at 7:14pm

How much road travel are you doing that your tires are wearing out? That sounds like an alignment issue or wear in the steering system somewhere or the fwa not disengaging. We used to run them backwards on the 8010 when bedding in the feedlot. Had better traction when reversing if you fell through the bedding pack and ended up sinking to the diffs in s..t.

Posted By: Dirt Farmer
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025 at 7:34pm

We use this particular tractor for pulling wagons in the fall and 20 ft planter in the spring. The elevator is 5 miles each direction from the farm and we pull two 550bu wagons together. In our situation it works better than a semi, no special license and all the paperwork, not to mention I’m the last person that needs to be trucking down the interstate to the terminal in the off season. Can’t handle cydiots on the road

Posted By: Acguywill
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025 at 8:47pm

What brand of tires do you have on the tractor? Something with a really hard tread would likely wear better. We had firestones on the front of the 8010 that were probably on for 14000 hours. They still had really good tread left but were getting rotted out and had to be replaced. We put some cheap ceat tires on now and the ride is awesome but I don't think they will last anywhere near as long. I knew a guy years ago that used to run almost all highway with his tractors pulling mowers and he always ran them in the normal direction. If I recall correctly they would last about 3500hrs and he replaced them when the cords started showing.

Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025 at 10:16pm

How much weigh are you carrying on the front? On a jd4960 we literally have a ton of weigh out front. 20 one hundred pound weights. Don't really need that for what the tractor does now. But nobody has taken them off.