Top 5 Reasons to Go with Airless Tires on Your Irrigation System

Which is better for your center pivot irrigation system? A pneumatic tire? or an airless/solid tire? To simply put, there are pros and cons to both.

Pneumatic Tires

Pneumatic tires are by far the industry standard. They compress under pressure which helps with traction, they are easy on driving components and if they don’t go flat, they work amazingly. The problem is, they do go flat. A flat tire out if the field can damage your irrigation system and costs money to replace them all the time.

Airless or Solid Pivot Tires

A common solution for flat pivot tires is using airless tires. Airless tires like the name suggests won’t go flat, effectively making them no flat tires. There are many different materials these no flat tires are made over including solid steel pivot tires, plastic pivot tires, and solid rubber pivot tires. The largest issue with no flat tires is that they are very hard on your gearbox and driving components due to how stiff they are.

5 Reasons To Go Airless

When developing the EWRS-PIVOT irrigation tire we considered all this. We wanted to make a tire that had the benefits of the no flat solid tires and the compression of a pneumatic.

It’s a no-flat tire
Increased Traction
Increased Floatation
Serviceability
Cost-Effective

It’s a no-flat tire

The EWRS-PIVOT airless irrigation tire is a no flat tire. Being an airless tire, it does not use compressed air to allow the tire to flex, instead, it uses core holes to mimic the compression of a pneumatic tire. These core holes are hollow, open-faced areas in the rubber that allows the rubber to flex without the risk of going flat.

Increased Traction

These core holes also help with traction. Flexibility allows the rubber to bend around obstacles to increase surface area and traction. It also is designed with an aggressive bidirectional tread that doesn’t push material outwards but still maintains traction.

Increased Floatation

Tire floatation is an important factor when considering a pivot tire. The EWRS-PIVOT tackles this with its bidirectional tread design as well as its concave profile. The concave profile keeps mud under the tire unlike your traditional convex tire and the bidirectional tread won’t push material outwards. On top of that, the EWRS-PIVOT has a 14.9” x 24” width increasing its surface area and therefore its floatation as well.

Serviceability

The EWRS-PIVOT’s high-quality rubber has UV protection, and the rims are made with high-strength steel that will last a lifetime. It is also a segmented tire. It is also a segmented tire. Each segment is bolted onto the rim so all you need is a 3/4" socket to service the tire when it’s damaged. The rubber on our tires will last 2-3 times the life span of your traditional center pivot irrigation system, without the risk of going flat.

Cost-Effective

The EWRS-PIVOT Series is more cost-effective than traditional pneumatic tires. Considering all the additional expenses such as frequent replacement, time and energy replacing them and repairing damage, as well as the yield damage from rutting and inefficiency from downtime, it gets expensive. Though the EWRS-PIVOT is more expensive upfront you will be able to trust that they won’t fail on you while also spending more time on other more important tasks.

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EWRS-PIVOT SERIES

The EWRS-PIVOT series of airless pivot tires from Evolution Wheel offers the most advanced airless technology to the irrigation market. This solution delivers serviceability, traction, and floatation into one impressive offering.

Our tread design and tire profile offer greater traction through mud and obstacles. The unique concave contact face helps eliminate rutting by keeping dirt under the tire, where it belongs. The face of the tire is pointed inwards. Compared to typical pneumatic irrigation tires which convex shape push mud out from under the tire, causing ruts.

Our proprietary segmented design bolts onto our high strength wheel, allowing you the ability to service the tire quickly, eliminating the need to change a tire in the field.

Unlike other airless pivot tires, the EWRS-PIVOT compresses flat pushing material out, it's a self-cleaning system. The compressed cores elongate the footprint of the tire allowing it to wrap over obstacles increasing traction and reducing ground pressure.

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