New Tacoma Limited - 2 Tires killed same day

I'm not from corn country so I'm not sure if this is commonly known: I drove through a field that had been recently bush hogged and got 2 sidewall punctured tires. I think that the field had been planted in corn a few years ago so I'm guessing that's what did it. Anyway 2 dead Michelins with less than 800 miles on them. Happy ending: The guy at the tire place called Michelin and got them to replace them for free

Question: Are old cornstalks always this effective at killing tires?

 

This may be a better question to ask on farmersonly.com.

Where's stick? He's really lonely and out driving the corn fields again...

 

If the field was soft,likely it could have been rocks. Disking a field can leave a lot of rocks under the surface with jagged edges.

 

1. Both fronts or all right or left sides? I doubt "old" stalks can puncture a sidewall. I would think you hit something much harder.

 

^^ this

 

Yea if the stalks are a few years old I wouldn't think they would be solid enough to puncture the sidewalls. I'm thinking its rocks

 

I agree with others above. I grew up on a farm and corn stalks would not do that, especially old ones. Must have been rocks or something similar.
Good for Michelin replacing them for you.

 

Maybe the Farmer is tired of trucks tearing up his groomed fields, he have left you a submerged present at the entrance.

 

The guy actually pulled out organic material (like layers of a corn-stalk) out of the holes. The holes were really tiny (TPMS showed a drop from 33 to 16 overnight). I though I probably had an old nail but there was no metal at all when he took off the tires to inspect them. He threw the tires into the tank to check for bubbles and all he found in the holes was tiny 'shafts' of some kind of plant. Anyway, look out for the new strain of zombie apocalypse corn in North Carolina.

 

I was actually in the field because I was thinking of buying the land lol. Popped tires was a deal breaker for me.

 

I wasn't criticizing you. I though you just might have stepped on a mine left for another.

 

Wasn't offended at all.

BTW, did a google search and apparently tire killing corn is a product of genetic engineering:

http://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/6444-issue-oct-2011-where-ag-tires-fear-to-tread

 

It was the front left and the rear right. Truck is brand new so I was kind of babying it. Maybe hit 10 mph tops. No bumps, jumps, or donuts.

 

Don't let old corn stalks break the deal. Buy the land and plant something else.

Tomatoes.

 

Well ill be a monkeys uncle...

 

Buy the land, then plant clover.

 

well I just learned something today that corn stubble can kill tires who knew ?

 

I was going to say I wouldn't be surprised honestly. Lots of corn and cotton plants around my area. That stuff is stronger than you would like to think. Especially when you cut it down to a few inches. It doesn't give the stalk anymore room to bend so you just run right over it and hope it flattens out versus going through the tire.

 

^^^ that more likely

OR the chemical fertilizers to grow the corn I.E Roundup did em in. Your tires were not "round up ready" and therefore took the proverbial dump. You should have gotten out of the truck and walked in the dirt - your shoes would probably take a similar dump walking around in that shit.

 

Corn stalks can be brutal, however a bottom plow or disk plowing a field can bring out all kinds of goodies that can cost you your tires. Genetically modified corn has stronger stalks to help combat wind and things that other wise would knock it down. Its not totally out of the realm of possibility.