"Combines are very heavy equipment and I feel they need large volume low pressure tires to help reduce compaction.

When no-tilling Winter Wheat, heavy depressions from Bias Ply Tires on our flat heavy clay soils, allows ice to form through the winter in these depressions causing wheat suffocation.

In 2001, which was the first year after installing the 1050/50R32 Megaxbib Tires, we experienced the worse ice damage ever in our Winter Wheat. There was no evidence of a single wheel mark anywhere. The wide low pressure Michelin Radials had no impact on this ice problem.

In 2000, we experienced a very wet summer. During the harvest of the Winter Wheat, we found excellent floatation and left no wheel marks. Adversely the manure spreaders hired to work our land with their 44" bias ply tires at 35 psi with similar axle loads left significant depressions.

It would be my suggestion that no other Combine should be operating without Michelin."

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