Purcell Tire & Service in Jackson, MO

Not a different tire so much as a different conversation. A farm tire decision depends on the machine, the job, the ground and how much road work the machine does between fields, and the answer changes with all four.

Bring the size off the sidewall and the make and model of the machine, and say what failed last time and where on the tire. Cuts, lug wear, punctures and separation each point somewhere different.

The timing advice matters as much: deal with anything marginal while the machine is standing. A tire that looked doubtful at the end of last season is a tire that fails during the next one, and the call always comes at the worst moment.

Casings collected here go to the Purcell retread plant in Potosi and come back ready to run.

On large agricultural tires this is worth asking about every time. They accumulate hours rather than miles, and a sound casing routinely outlives several treads. The same arithmetic applies to the trucks: the casing is the expensive structure, and what ends one is almost always a tire run flat. See retreading.

Roadside assistance covers commercial units outside store hours, and in country like this the detail that decides how the call goes is where the unit actually is.

A highway and a mile marker is ideal. A field entrance, a grain facility or a crossroads needs more: the road, the nearest town, and anything a driver arriving in the dark could use to be certain they are in the right place. A phone that stays answered matters for the same reason.

The second detail is the tire size and position, read off the sidewall rather than remembered. Those two things together are what put the right tire on the first truck out.