This is hardcore tyre building taken to extremes, can you even imagine how big a 63 inch tyre is? Judging from the pictures, it’s size is beyond our comprehension. It’s built by the Titan Tyre who specialize in wheels, tyres and assemblies for off-highway equipment used in agricultural, earthmoving/construction and consumer (including all terrain vehicles) applications.
Last week, Titan Tyre shipped its first giant 63-inch off-the-road (OTR) tyre and wheel assemblies. The tyres, each measuring nearly 14 feet tall and weighing approximately 5.5tons, are being shipped to Canada’s oil sands for use in mining applications and Titan envisages a worldwide market of 900 tyres a year.
The previous largest production tyre in the world was produced by Bridgestone. The Bridgestone V-Steel E-Lug S tyre which the Titan exceeds stands at 4.02 meters (158.5 inches) tall and is 11 centimeters (4.4 inches) taller than Bridgestone’s former record holder, the 55/80R63 V-Steel R-Lug S tire.
So with 5.5 tons of tyre at each of your hubs, how many horses do you think will you need just to get moving? Someone do the research and let us know, I’m guessing you will easily need about 15,000horses just to get moving and then to lug all that earth around.
Source: GizMag
