Yard and site
OTR and heavy equipment tires
Off-the-road, industrial and heavy equipment rubber, plus solid tires and rubber tracks for machines that do not travel far but work hard.
Chapter 01
Site tires fail differently from road tires
An OTR or industrial tire rarely wears out in the way a highway tire does. It gets cut, punctured by site debris, or chunked out of the tread by rock and rubble, and it does it while carrying loads that leave no margin for a soft casing.
Machines that live on concrete have the opposite problem. Constant turning on a hard surface scrubs rubber off at a rate that surprises people, which is where solid tires and rubber tracks start making more sense than air.
Interior shelving at D H Tire stacked with off-road and ATV tire inventory
Matching the tire to the surface
The first question is always what the machine actually stands on. Loose rock, packed dirt, warehouse concrete and mixed site all want different compounds and tread depths, and the wrong choice does not fail dramatically, it just costs a third of the expected life.
We handle OTR tires, industrial tires, heavy equipment tires, solid rubber tires and rubber tracks out of the Truck and Commercial Tire Center at 3611 N. McCarty Dr. Sizes on this equipment are less standardised than car tires, so call (346) 741-5592 with the machine and the numbers off the sidewall and we will confirm what we can get.
Chapter 03
Getting the full life out of a set
Cuts caught early can often be repaired. Cuts left to work themselves open let water and grit into the casing, and once that has started the tire is scrap rather than a repair. Walking the machine occasionally costs nothing and saves whole tires.
The other quiet killer is running a machine on a tire that has already been flat under load. It looks fine once it is inflated again, but the internal damage is done. If a unit has been run down, tell us, and we will look at the casing properly.
D H Tire, Family owned in Houston since 1987. Call (713) 234-0629.