Maka
Veteran Member
Hi All,
For those of you who have the experience I would like to discuss. As a dealer in very heavy timber country I have people skidding logs, cleaning slash etc..
The R4's are wider more stable, less wear on the tire it seems and less resistant to tire damage due to rocks and slash and less damaging on the ground. Good traction in most conditions. We are rocky and sandy not much clay.
R1's are great in the slick stuff (far better than R4's), get much more traction when needed.
An earlier post brought this up in a post on which tractor but I would like to keep this to just tires in the woods.
I have a customer who has a 43hp tractor with a Tajfun winch. He is hard on his stuff and when he got it went with R1's for traction. He punctured a tire at about 100 hrs and ate the lugs up on rocks so came in and bought Titan R4's and has had no damage to the tires after 400 hours and has no compalint about traction in our type of soils.
What do you use in what type of soil conditions and what are your experience if you have used both types? This may help others who are considering this for forrestry uses in various areas.
I am not advocating one over the other as in some areas clay may be a factor and the R1's would be better where on rocks and slash R4's may be better.
For our area and forrestry use R4's seem to be the preference.
Maka
For those of you who have the experience I would like to discuss. As a dealer in very heavy timber country I have people skidding logs, cleaning slash etc..
The R4's are wider more stable, less wear on the tire it seems and less resistant to tire damage due to rocks and slash and less damaging on the ground. Good traction in most conditions. We are rocky and sandy not much clay.
R1's are great in the slick stuff (far better than R4's), get much more traction when needed.
An earlier post brought this up in a post on which tractor but I would like to keep this to just tires in the woods.
I have a customer who has a 43hp tractor with a Tajfun winch. He is hard on his stuff and when he got it went with R1's for traction. He punctured a tire at about 100 hrs and ate the lugs up on rocks so came in and bought Titan R4's and has had no damage to the tires after 400 hours and has no compalint about traction in our type of soils.
What do you use in what type of soil conditions and what are your experience if you have used both types? This may help others who are considering this for forrestry uses in various areas.
I am not advocating one over the other as in some areas clay may be a factor and the R1's would be better where on rocks and slash R4's may be better.
For our area and forrestry use R4's seem to be the preference.
Maka