Purcell Tire & Service in Princeton, KY

All nine categories are carried, including agricultural tires for tractors, combines, sprayers and implements, and tracks for tracked machines.

The question that costs a farm most is not which tire but when. A tire that looked marginal at the end of last season is a tire that will fail during the next one, and the store would far rather replace it in a quiet week than take the call at the worst possible moment. Have anything doubtful looked at while the machine is standing.

A specific one for this part of the state, where a great deal moves on a trailer behind a pickup.

Trailer tires fail without warning, because nobody is sitting on them to notice the symptoms. The causes are almost always the same: under-inflation, age rather than mileage, and a trailer that has spent months parked. Check pressure cold before a trip, and have the sidewalls and date codes looked at on a trailer that sits. Trailer tires are carried here, and trailer alignment is available for the commercial units that need it.

A farm is a fleet with a different calendar. The vehicles and machines are varied, the demand is concentrated into a few weeks of the year, and the cost of being down is measured in weather rather than in hours.

Fleet services works for that as well as it does for a trucking company, with one adjustment: the schedule is built around the seasons rather than around mileage. Tires inspected and replaced in the quiet months, casings sent for retreading when nothing is waiting on them, and the sizes you cannot do without confirmed as available before the work starts.

There is no minimum number of machines, and the records are the part most farms find useful first, because they turn a vague sense that tires cost a lot into a number.