[Land-speed] Tires for my Trailer

[Larry Mayfield]

As mentioned in one post reply, the failures happen in seemingly random 
locations.  Except for the last two. The drivers side middle axle failed 
and I never even knew it, lol. It exploded and sen rubber parts 
everywhere. Then the trailing wheel was found to be bad also when I was 
changing the middle one. It hand not failed but the tread was separating 
from the sidewall at the shoulder. Others have occurred on the P side 
but always singly.  Common factor seems to be the manner of failure and 
that is tread separation at the shoulder of the tire.

When I load the trailer I try and load it somewhat symmetrically.  Motor 
of the car is between the first two axles, etc...

mayf

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On 5/15/2012 10:55 PM, 23weldon wrote:
> Mayf - Is there any perceivable pattern to which trailer tire 
> locations fail?  If so it may be some non-uniform loading on the 
> trailer wheels.  A single axle trailer is a simple statics problem.  
> But add a second axle and the statics problem becomes inderterminate 
> influenced by the relative "springiness" of every load point.  
> ...............Ed
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
> To: "Neil Albaugh" <neil at dbelltech.com>
> Cc: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Tires for my Trailer
>> Neil, as I just sent a reply to another post...my trailer  is 15800
>> capacity tripple axle. I load it to around 10 k.  tires are faithfully
>> kept to the highest rating on the side walls. I think Greenball is the
>> maker of Towmaster tires.  I think and that may be dangerous, lol.  Been
>> a while since my thinker has worked well apparently.   How fast do 
>> you tow?> mayf