Old dude that used to farm the place north of us had a mid 70’s Versatile that must have still had its original tires. Looked like it had 8 inner tubes on it. No telling how much extra fuel that slippage was costing him.
Great Aunt had an old combine out behind the barn that still had WWII surplus airplane tires on it when I was a kid. Grandad said they couldn’t get new tires for anything during the war but they could buy takeoff tires from bombers that would work on combines for the drive tires. Said they might get stuck but they wouldn’t sink or dig into the mud, just sit and spin.
