Here’s a good video made by www.orangetractortalks.com. It explains about how to ballast your tires and what types of ballast to use. I’d like to add a few comments. - We only use calcium chloride and fill the tires to around 70% capacity, ...Continue Reading
Titan just introduced a beast called the “Ultimate Skid Steer”. The tire has the standard skid steer directional cleat tread design but the tread depth, rim guard and sidewall thickness are all “super-sized”. Here is Titan’s ...Continue Reading
If you’re like me, that last cut of the season was probably done in late November and the cold swirling winds made it a pretty miserable experience. Just get it done and get the lawn tractor back in the garage, out of the way, not to be used again ...Continue Reading
This week our first shipment of tractor tires arrived from OTR Wheel Engineering. We decided to bring in OTR because they have some unique sizes available and they are original equipment on some major brands of equipment such as Kubota, Cub Cadet, JLG and ...Continue Reading
There are many major brands of lawn mower tires such as Carlisle, Titan, Goodyear, Kenda, Cheng Shin. These are the big players in the industry. Then there’s a long list of private brand tires. Private brand tires are generally made for marketing ...Continue Reading
And your answer is….? Actually if you answered yes or no, you’re probably right and probably wrong. Confused yet? Welcome into my world, the world of specialty tires. Let’s start from the basics then I’ll add a few twists and ...Continue Reading
The tire chain business has been crazy lately as a result of all the snow storms that hit the Mid-atlantic states all the way down to Florida. Imagine that, snow in the Florida panhandle!?!? I keep telling my wife that New England will be the ...Continue Reading
Because we have a retail division with a full service tire repair shop, we see the full gamut of tires in different stages of repair or should I say disrepair. You would be amazed at what comes in through the door. Just last month I saw a something ...Continue Reading
Ken Jones Tires is proud to announce our 70th anniversary of operation! Over the last 70 years, many major businesses have come and gone. Well known automotive brands such as Saturn and Oldsmobile have ceased to exist while Ken Jones Tires has ...Continue Reading
I get a lot of ideas for my blog posts from my daily phone conversations with customers. It helps to be in the trenches, providing input and solving problems. It’s a lot of fun talking to people all over the US and Canada. You would be amazed ...Continue Reading
