Got a 700 or 800lb Tire?

[CharlesDMickey]

Can you give me the dimensions and ply ratings to look for. I found a huge cache of tires! Any help?

I’ve got a 550 - thankfully we've out grown it!!

[Jay O'Neill]

someone posted this a while back. hope it helps.

http://www.tirexusa.com/firestone/hsrg.html

[ClayEdgin]

I just got a tire today. It is 26.5-r25, 20ply rating, and according to that chart it weighs 800lbs. After a few flips, I would agree!

[Mike Westerling]

I just got a tire today. It is 26.5-r25, 20ply rating, and according to that chart it weighs 800lbs. After a few flips, I would agree!

Clay,
If you were going by the link above 25.6 25 is a bias tire on that page. (notice no r before the 25) If yours has an r before the 25 it's a radial and at least 150-200 lbs more than the 26.5 25 listed. I looked up 26.5 r25 before and depending on what brand it is the lowest weight I found was 900+ lbs. I think Michelin listed theirs at like 1200 or something. Any way, nice find on a beast of a tire.
-Mike

[ClayEdgin]

Thanks Mike, you're right. Mine does not have the R on it, so it is just 26.5-25. I doubt I would have such an easy time with a 1200lb tire ;)

[CharlesDMickey]

Just scored two kick ass tires! One for the wife, about 450 and one I guess to be 700+. Probably more like 800! :rolleyes:

Its a nice stash of tires. Mostly LW tires. But if you inerested Let me know its about half way beteween Stockton and Sacramento.

[CharlesDMickey]

Clay,
If you were going by the link above 25.6 25 is a bias tire on that page. (notice no r before the 25) If yours has an r before the 25 it's a radial and at least 150-200 lbs more than the 26.5 25 listed. I looked up 26.5 r25 before and depending on what brand it is the lowest weight I found was 900+ lbs. I think Michelin listed theirs at like 1200 or something. Any way, nice find on a beast of a tire.
-Mike


You are defiantly right on the radial issue. My two heaviest tires are very close in size but the one we just got is a radial, and much heavier.

[chris]

Where are you guys finding the weights of the tires. I have four tires I would like to found out the weights for. Here they are 724 r way, s05303 , ry273221 , 729rway. Is there some kind of website I can refer to. I am getting about 6 more tires from a tire shop and I want to know how much they weigh. Some are tractor tires and others are front loader tires. I will also being getting some from a construction company, he said he has some earth leveler tires but those are about 6 ft tall and steel belted (not quite ready for those)
Chris

[MarkSikora]

Chris,

I think the best way is to get it from the manufactuer's site and/or just take it to a scale. A ton of tires we checked out today were the same size but totally different weights due to number of plies, steel belted or not etc. You need the make, size (ie: 23.5-25, type ie: heavy rock, etc, etc).

One think we did notice: regular tractor tires like you mentioned seemed to be a lot thinner and lighter than a similar sized rock tire. Some of those rock tires are just nasty.

Anyway, good luck, we don't really know exactly what ours weigh yet, but I am going to check the website and other places. All we know, is like Mick said, it is definately heavier than our old tire, and that's what counts for now.

Good luck

Mark

[chris]

Mark,
Have you ever heard of front loader tires made by toko that is what i have now.

[MarkSikora]

Chris,

I am definately not a tire expert!! If you have a tire from a front end loader, it sounds like a good one to me. I would assume it is rock/heavy duty for construction. I could not find anything on that brand after a quick search.

The most important thing is that the weight is right for you and whoever you work out with. In my short and meager experience I have found that some "light" tires were harder to flip than heavier ones due to the height of the tire, tread wear, surface the tire was flipped on etc. I will look around for more tire info, I know somebody has posted some info before on another board re: tire weights, and their is a short list on the above thread.

Good luck

Mark

[Micah B.]

not really totally on topic, but heres a tire related question: ive found a couple places that are more than willing to get rid of a couple and i was wondering whats a good tire weight to start off with?

[CharlesDMickey]

Well, that’s hard to say.

It really just depends how strong you are. I’m a LW usually 225+. I got my first tire about 550lbs. I was a loner so I had no one to show me how. I took the tire out and just a few flips would kick my ass.

Then I was lucky enough to train with Clint Darden and he showed me how to do it. All of a sudden I was taking my tire for distance.

Unless you’re a really big man I would say 500-600lbs. Consider the women use 400ish tires.

Learn from my mistakes--------NEVER TAKE A TIRE BEFORE YOU TEST IT!!!!!

Good luck
Mick

[jon hergert]

Tire weights that you get from the manufacturer are a little suspect for most of the tires that we flip. The listed weight is for a new tire and most of the tires that we get access to are used. Used tire may be lighter by as much as 200 lbs from tread wear. Best way to get a weight is using a scale but I am not sure how helpful that is either because so much of the difficulty of a tire depends upon how wide it is, what the grip is like, whether or not it has a square edge, etc.

[Micah B.]

Well, that’s hard to say.

It really just depends how strong you are. I’m a LW usually 225+. I got my first tire about 550lbs. I was a loner so I had no one to show me how. I took the tire out and just a few flips would kick my ass.

Then I was lucky enough to train with Clint Darden and he showed me how to do it. All of a sudden I was taking my tire for distance.

Unless you’re a really big man I would say 500-600lbs. Consider the women use 400ish tires.

Learn from my mistakes--------NEVER TAKE A TIRE BEFORE YOU TEST IT!!!!!

Good luck
Mick


thanks a bunch. im just a wee little fella so ill probably go with something around 500 pounds. just dont want to end up with an 800 pound tire that just sits there. :D