J&D Cattle
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I leave work early yesterday afternoon and head two hours away to pick up a rotary cutter I bought. Pulling a 20' gooseneck flatbed with 14 ply Hankook 7.50R16 LT tires. Tires are in good shape and correctly inflated. On the way home on Hwy 60 at Mountain Grove I have a blow out. Spare is a little questionable no doubt there. Tire was seperating a little bit but took and held air. Get the other side of Cabool or roughly 20 miles and the spare blows out. There I sit with 3 tires. I managed to limp the trailer to a safe locale and dropped it. Had another blow out about a year ago on the same trailer. I've used this trailer a lot hauling tractors and hay so I'm certain there is nothing wrong with the trailer causing this. Got to be the tires. Must be dry rotted but not visable or I'm having a heck of a run of bad luck.
All of that to say what brand and ply rating do you folks have good luck with on your tandem axle single wheel goosenecks? Would you worry more about ply or lb rating?
I'm always hauling under approximately 14,000lbs and generally a couple of thousand less than that. After looking up these tires they are 14 ply but rated at 3,330lbs. I put some Hercules Power STR 12 ply rated at 3,960lbs on a stock trailer not to long ago but haven't ran them enough to determine if I like them.
All of that to say what brand and ply rating do you folks have good luck with on your tandem axle single wheel goosenecks? Would you worry more about ply or lb rating?
I'm always hauling under approximately 14,000lbs and generally a couple of thousand less than that. After looking up these tires they are 14 ply but rated at 3,330lbs. I put some Hercules Power STR 12 ply rated at 3,960lbs on a stock trailer not to long ago but haven't ran them enough to determine if I like them.