Tag: earthmover tires

Construction Equipment

The Top 10 Construction Equipment Videos of 2016

With just a few days left in 2016, we’ve gone back through our thousands of posts to determine the top 10 construction equipment videos on the site for the year. These are ranked in order based on the number of clicks you, our dear readers (and watchers), provided. And this might actually be our favorite […]

December 29, 2016

Components

Repairing an earthmover tire is an intricate art form

Recently, we saw the explosive results of over-inflating an earthmover tire. But what happens when the damage to one of these giant tires is a bit less devastating? That’s where German company Rema Tip Top comes in. According to the YouTube description for the video below, put together by Extreme Machines Magazine, Rema Tip Top was […]

December 15, 2016

Roadbuilding

Tire Technology

Your earthmover tires are a critical component of uptime, cost control and profitability.

July 4, 2012

Construction Equipment

How to choose and maintain earthmover tires

Other than the cost of the machine itself, fuel and tires are the biggest expenses you face in earthmoving and quarry work. While the price of fuel is out of your control, there are a number of tire-related factors you can control that will lower operating costs and increase your uptime. It starts with picking […]

June 1, 2012

Maintenance

Maintenance

Otr tires – by the numbers How to crack the codes for lower cost and longer-life tires By Tom Jackson Next to fuel and wages, tires are the biggest operating cost for heavy construction fleets. Yet a surprising number of contractors care little about their tires as long as they’re round, black and rolling. Such […]

June 28, 2011