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Laughing Gas
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From: Sandy Run SC
Nice Tire
I had my truck at the car show at the tire plant in Lexington, SC in October. I took a picture of this earth mover tire that is made there.I am 6 ft. so you can see the size of this tire. 
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From: East KY
That's a big one alright! The mining industry around here uses a LOT of those things (and they're not cheap). They get recycled for all kinds of uses after they wear out. I snapped this pic back in the summer at a local dirt race track. These aren't hardly as big as the one in your pic.
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Until I switched mines this fall I spent a lot of time in a Cat 793 240 ton overburden truck. It carried up to 280 tons many times. Its six tires were 12 feet in diameter, with a price tag of almost $40,000 a tire. The goal was to get 7-8000 hours, but sinking into soft ground and getting sidewall cuts would shorten that.
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