Enhance The Traction Of Your Small Tractor To Improve Performance

Making sure your small tractor has enough traction to put the available power to use is an important step in maximizing its performance.

It's amazing how much power and versatility can be crammed into such small tractors. Engine horsepower in the 20-25 range is common in subcompact utility tractors and garden tractors. They can be equipped with a variety of attachments and implements to increase their versatility. However, there is an important step in optimizing the performance of small tractors. You must ensure that your tractor has enough traction to put that power to good use.

Here's some specific advice on how to gain traction and save time:

You can follow these steps to get the best traction out of your tractor.

1. Use the appropriate tire size for the load to improve efficiency.

If your implements are heavy and your tractor has standard-size tires, you will need to compensate for the load by increasing inflation pressure to support the weight of your implements.

To compensate for rolling resistance or slip and achieve optimal traction, increasing the size of your wheels based on load is an excellent solution.

The greater the width of the tire section, the less the tire sinks into the ground. To obtain a larger soil footprint, simply upgrade to a series of 75, 70, 65, or even 60 tires.

A wider tire holds more air, resulting in better traction on the road. You will improve traction, allowing you to save a significant amount of time by the end of each working day.

2. Improved pressure management to improve traction

Working with overinflated tires, especially on wet or soft ground, results in a high slip ratio, which raises the tractive force required to pull the tractor forward. This has a direct impact on both working time and fuel consumption.

A good agricultural tire pressure management system is an efficient way to improve traction. There is a direct relationship between tire pressure settings and tractor tractive capacity.

Using average inflation pressure to make life easier is not the solution, given that a 0.25 bar difference can reduce slip and save a significant amount of time.

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3. What tire technology saves you time?

The tractor's original tires are not always the best choice for your farm. As a result, it is worthwhile to replace them with an innovative, high-performance design.

Large low-pressure IF tires can be used to better distribute pressure and traction capacity across a larger contact patch with the ground.

IF (Improved Flexion) tires, as the name implies, have more flexion capacity in their sidewalls than standard tires. Their design, the result of years of research and development, has resulted in a casing that is both reinforced and supple, made of special, highly resistant materials.

4. Daily, proper agricultural tire management saves time

As we have seen in the various sections of this article, several factors allow us to:

• Increase traction,
• Decrease pressure,
• and avoid having to adjust the pressure between the road and the fields.

The combination of the three points will provide the optimal time-saving solution.

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