Musdalen
Gold Member
A mishmash of many things. Even the lawn tractor with turfs and differential lock will not be able to cross the drive in wet snow or packed snow/ice, never mind doing anything useful. All the sidewalk clearing vehicles on campus in winter (compact tractors mostly) are chained up if wearing turfs.
The old 8N with fairly decent R1s would work in most any condition and it did have more traction on its two tires than the 3039r does on its two R4s in 2-wheel drive, but the JD has 4 wd too and it certainly is MUCH gentler on the grass and trails that I have. So, I've given up some traction there for sure, but I haven't filled the R4 tires like I did the R1s and I don't get the damage. I haven't used the R4s on snow and ice yet, but I can't see how they can be any worse than the turfs, not even close, but if so, they will get chained up. Most everything does if the snow season gets serious. But for day-in-day out work like moving manure out in the mud today, the R4s didn't slip a millimeter. The R1s or turfs couldn't have beaten that.
If I go back to towing logs I'll really miss the R1s for sure. But now I can carry them in a grapple. I don't see Turfs being ANY advantage in log dragging at all. But I have to confess, I haven't tried that one yet.
