Optimize Tire Traction with Ballast and Grooving
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What happens here
Further enhancing the Kubota loader's traction, its tires are specially prepared. Each tire is 'filled with beet juice' as ballast. Beet juice, an environmentally friendly alternative to calcium chloride, adds significant weight to the tires, increasing their contact pressure with the ground and improving grip without the corrosive properties of other liquid ballasts. Additionally, the tires are 'grooved,' which refers to cutting additional patterns into the tire tread to create more biting edges for improved grip on snow and ice.
Goal: Improve tire grip and weight distribution for maximum traction.
Tools and materials
- Kubota Loader Kubota — The machine whose tires are being modified
- Tires — The primary component for ground contact and traction
- Beet Juice — Liquid ballast to add weight and improve traction