Why 4 Wheel Drive

[Heavyduty]

At least you know your limitations early on with 2wd. With 4wd you might not know until a couple hundred feet that you should not be out in it.

 

[wolc123]

One of my favorite features of a 4wd is, when doing operations such as early season plowing or disking where there is risk of getting stuck even with 4wd, you can just leave the loader and bucket on the tractor. Using that, I have been able to push or pull myself out of anything I have gotten into in the last 4 years of mucky-bottomland spring tillage. Unlike a 2wd, the extra weight of that loader on the front does not hurt you a bit with a 4wd. A 2wd would be lucky to even manage to pull a plow or disk if there was a heavy loader on the front in the conditions where I typically operate. They say 4wd will just get you stuck deeper, but I wouldnt know that since I have not been stuck since getting a 4wd 4 years ago. Before that, it was 3-4 times a season on average. The spring planting is getting done much earlier also without the need to wait until all the wet spots are completely dried up. The fuel savings could not have come at a better time with the crazy prices over the last few years. I am just mad I waited so long to get one when I think of all the time and money I wasted by sticking with 2wd's for so long.

 

[LBrown59]

One really Vary good reason why!
Somewhat Scary Experience - TractorByNet.com

 

[20 20]

I have 4wd and only use it once 2wd starts slipping. I can go places with my 25hp 4wd that a guy down the road with his 50hp 2wd drive can't touch. IMO It's not so much about having 4wd verses 2wd drive it's wether or not if the operator knows how to use it. Like some one esle pointed out when a 4wd gets stuck it is STUCK!!! Kind of like these yuppies with there all wheels drive SUV's and such, they think they're invincible.

 

[pat32rf]

Once the snow is gone and the mud has dried enough to remove the chains I quite often use 2wd for running up or down my gravel driveway, unless I am towing or carrying a load. If I'm on a hill, outback or on uneven footing then its 4wd.....

 

[Charlesaf3]

Whenever my tractor's performance is really bad, I look down and see the 4wd lever got kicked into 2wd. Its amazing how much difference it makes

I would not only never buy a 2wd tractor, I can't see a situation where I'll ever take one of my tractors out of 4wd to use 2wd. Amazing how much of a performance difference in all situations (note - I don't drive on paved roads)

 

[Reg]

I will often deliberately START something doubtful in 2WD, then shift to 4WD to get me out.
"Out" often means back the way I came.
If things are looking bad and look as if they will be getting worse I do NOT use 4WD to get me "through", that is the basis of the "4 times as stuck and 4 times farther in" joke.

 

[Heavyduty]

I will often deliberately START something doubtful in 2WD, then shift to 4WD to get me out.
"Out" often means back the way I came.
If things are looking bad and look as if they will be getting worse I do NOT use 4WD to get me "through", that is the basis of the "4 times as stuck and 4 times farther in" joke.

I was askin a State Dot supervisor, who looks after the highway mowings one day why the fleet was 90% 2wd. He said one reason, the guys who were making $15 hr to drive $100k worth of equp. wouldn't get in to much trouble. He said one worker that had just started, drove down a vertical 8ft ditch that had 3 feet of grey clay in the bottom, thought 4x4 would get him out.

 

[cowboy357]

I mentioned it at the end of my post about 3 posts before yours

No offence to anyone, but i often wonder if anyone reads all the posts before commenting . Just seems the same answers are given over & over . No big deal, just curious . . Bob

 

[LD1]

No offence to anyone, but i often wonder if anyone reads all the posts before commenting . Just seems the same answers are given over & over . No big deal, just curious . . Bob

I have often wondered the same