How much air

FarmboyBill · #1 04/26/12, 07:23 PM

Should be in trailer house tires??

Danaus29 · #2 04/26/12, 07:38 PM

Doesn't it say on the side of the tire?

Sawmill Jim · #3 04/26/12, 08:54 PM

60 or 70 I think

Surge223 · #4 04/26/12, 08:56 PM

Read the side of the tire.

FarmboyBill · #5 04/26/12, 10:18 PM

Dang nabbit, U guys get in your mid 60s, I hope somebody tells you to read the side of a old tire. If I could see the print on the side of a tire, I sure wouldnt have bothered you helpful and intelligent people. lol

Thanks Jim

Danaus29 · #6 04/26/12, 10:35 PM

Now if you would have said that right off maybe you would have got some answers that were a bit more helpful. Get a child (teenagers will work too, if you can find one that will work) and have them rub the side of the tire with chalk. That will make the numbers stick out so you (or said child) can read them.

Of course if you had the manufacturer and the load rating of the tire somebody could take a wild guess at it.

Sawmill Jim · #7 04/26/12, 11:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danaus29

Now if you would have said that right off maybe you would have got some answers that were a bit more helpful. Get a child (teenagers will work too, if you can find one that will work) and have them rub the side of the tire with chalk. That will make the numbers stick out so you (or said child) can read them.

Of course if you had the manufacturer and the load rating of the tire somebody could take a wild guess at it.

I got a pile of them tires

Things i don't have
Good eyes
Teenager
Chalk

fordy · #8 04/26/12, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FarmBoyBill

Dang nabbit, U guys get in your mid 60s, I hope somebody tells you to read the side of a old tire. If I could see the print on the side of a tire, I sure wouldnt have bothered you helpful and intelligent people. lol

Thanks Jim

................I was thinking they were like a 100 psi , I'd call a mobile home dship and ask them what they run in their tires . , fordy

HermitJohn · #9 04/27/12, 02:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sawmill Jim

I got a pile of them tires

Things i don't have
Good eyes
Teenager
Chalk

I dont have good eyes, teen, or chalk either, but I do have several cheap pair reading glasses. Well when I can find them. Worth their weight when you need to read something. Amazing the older I get, the smaller the print on everything....

I used to have to deal with a two axle utility trailer that had mobile home axles and mobile home tires. I cant remember what recommended pressure was, but pretty sure it was somewhere 60 to 100 psi. Best thing to do in that situation is change out the hubs so you can use 16 inch 10ply pickup tires. The mobile home tires arent a good thing. You can get by with them, but they arent a good thing.

uncle Will in In. · #10 04/27/12, 04:18 AM

Take your tire pressure gauge and test them. If you plan to run them on a mobile home the person who is going to move it should know the correct pressure. If you are useing them on a hay wagon, 50 psi would be a plenty.

Yvonne's hubby · #11 04/27/12, 05:55 AM

fill them up till they pop... and back off about 10 lbs.

blufford · #12 04/27/12, 06:29 AM

The tires should raise the trailer high enough so the pink flamingos don't bump their heads while going underneath.

artificer · #13 04/27/12, 06:37 AM

According to this site, if the tires are 14.5x6.00 then the pressure is 100psi.

Here's one that says 85psi for a 14.5x8.

So... it depends on what tires you have on the trailer.

Are the tires on a mobile home, or do you have a homemade trailer that uses them? If they are on a homemade trailer, then the tires should support 3000lbs each at 100psi. If you don't need that much capacity, or you don't know what tires you have, I would go with 85psi and 2500lbs for a load limit.

Michael

jwal10 · #14 04/27/12, 06:49 AM

My homemade 7'x12' flatbed tilt trailer has 7x14.5 and say 90 lbs max. It sure bounces going down the road empty on those single leaf springs. I haul my 454 IH tractor on it. 4 ton of fertilizer. Never had a problem with the wheels and hubs. It has hauled snowmobiles and 4 wheelers all over Western and Central Oregon. EVERYONE seems to love it, it is never home....James

foxtrapper · #15 04/27/12, 09:43 AM

The tire sidewall gives the maximum allowable pressure and weight load, not the recommended pressure. That number will be on the trailer.

Very generically, if the trailer hops around, the pressure is too high. If the tires feel hot to the touch, the pressure is too low.

mnn2501 · #16 04/27/12, 09:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FarmBoyBill

Dang nabbit, U guys get in your mid 60s, I hope somebody tells you to read the side of a old tire. If I could see the print on the side of a tire, I sure wouldnt have bothered you helpful and intelligent people. lol

Thanks Jim

If you can't see the print on the tire, perhaps you shouldn't be driving it

Sawmill Jim · #17 04/27/12, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foxtrapper

The tire sidewall gives the maximum allowable pressure and weight load, not the recommended pressure. That number will be on the trailer.

Very generically, if the trailer hops around, the pressure is too high. If the tires feel hot to the touch, the pressure is too low.

Reason for high pressure is the type of rims if they aren't up real good a twist on a turn will break them loose

These tires unless replaced with low boy tires or a for road use type tire will get your trailer confiscated if stopped by the Cops . They are cleaning house on older trailers .

If a trailer won't meet DOT inspection i would keep it on the farm as fines are getting higher every day . I got fifteen lights , license plate and break away set up on my trailer . O and no slick tires on truck or trailer .

Most States if you exceed 10,001 GVW for truck and trailer you need a license plate large enough to cover the load and US DOT numbers . Fuss all you want when you get caught

I got mine ahead of time some here are learning the hard way .

I got a F250 Diesel with a 26,000 license plate

uncle Will in In. · #18 04/27/12, 10:05 AM

FBB <> Are you getting a mobile home to live in?

Do you plan on moving one yourself?? Be careful you don't break the drawbar off your H Farmall.

FarmboyBill · #19 04/27/12, 10:45 AM

This is OKLA I dont even have lights or license on my trailers. I got a 10 X 22ft trailer that ive loaded with junk so as to make gas money when I find a place to move alla this stuff to. Ill be useing it to move all my machinery but not the Case or the H IHC
I also got a 10 X 12 sinigle axle trailer with a TH axle under it.

Sawmill Jim · #20 04/27/12, 04:55 PM

I did things kind of that way a long time but i was afraid my luck would run out .

Here they just getting a few at a time other wise there would be lots of fussing in high places .