By Kenneth Reily

It always feels like road construction is done during the summers, of course it might be partly true as it will be easier to do some of the work during the summers, especially in areas that have harsh winters. Here you will need to make sure that your equipment and tires are in good condition so that they can handle the tough working condition that you have while working with road maintenance.

When it comes to road maintenance you often use the same equipment than you would use doing earth moving tasks, except for roads you will also need a road grader to ensure that you will get very flat and straight roads.

For road maintenance work you will use the normal machines such as an excavator make sure that you can dig up existing roads that needs to be repaired or then build new roads. Often there are roads that need to be repaired due to holes or cracks in the road or then you might have some pipes under the road that needs to be repaired. The excavator does the main job of digging up and filling it back again. You will need good excavator tires that will ensure that the excavator has good stability and grip while digging. The road grader needs a different set of tires that will ensure that you will have good grip when you grade. These tires often have the same characteristics of a wheel loader tire.

It is good to check the technical tire manual to see the range of tires available for road maintenance work. It is important to select the right tire for the equipment that it will be used for as well as for the working conditions that prevail there. A mistake in the selection process can be very expensive and can cause a lot of other problems. This should be avoided as much as it can. You can always have problems of accidents, but they should not come from a lack of knowledge or from mistakes.

Trying to save money when purchasing tires for heavy equipment is the wrong mindset, it should be all about maximizing output at a certain cost. Saving made upon purchase, will often very quickly be eaten up by shorter lifetime, or more expensive fuel costs. More maintenance costs or delays in production. This is where the real money starts adding up. You will need to make sure that you can get the best quality that you can get for your machine and that is designed for doing the work that needs to be done. When this matches, the extra money invested in the tires will soon be rewarded by higher output and less maintenance and costs for downtime and delays. Companies that always deliver on time and on budget are the ones that gets the most work.