Balance matters at speed, which sorts your fleet for you
An out-of-balance assembly produces force that rises steeply with speed. At field and yard speeds it is doing almost nothing. At highway speed it is doing a great deal.
For a mixed operation that is a useful sorting rule, because it says where to spend the attention.
The highway units earn it. Grain trucks, the trailers behind them, the pickups running to town and back: those cover their miles at a speed where imbalance wears tread in patches and feeds vibration into the steering all day.
The field machines mostly do not. A tractor working at a walking pace is not generating the forces that balancing exists to cancel, and nobody should be charged for balancing where it has no effect.
That is worth saying because the opposite assumption, that everything with a wheel should be balanced, costs money without returning any.
Where the exception sits
Anything that goes between field and road at road speed. An implement or a cart towed on the highway at speed is in the first category, not the second, even though it spends most of its life in the second.
If you are not sure which a given unit is, ask. It is a short answer and it decides whether the work is worth doing.
When it is worth asking for
The national tire and wheel balancing page lists the occasions. The addition here is simply to apply them to the units that actually run at speed.
A vibration that survives a balance is usually the rim, and wheel refurbishing is at this store.
About this store
The Jonesboro store carries all nine Purcell tire categories, opens at 7:00 AM, and is managed by Tony Kuehnel.
See the national tire and wheel balancing page for all 51 locations.