gladehound
Veteran Member
Things are pretty much thawed out around here. So much so that this past weekend the belly of my tractor was scraping the mud. As would be expected, the grooves fill with mud and stay that way for the most part. I suspect that the grooves make no difference at all in mud. In hard dirt I suspect the extra biting edges will help.
I did work the tractor hard in the mud, dirt and the rocks. Doing some log skidding. One tree that I pulled out was 18" in diameter at the lower part and about 60 feet long so there should have been some force on the tires. Kept the tractor up in the dry areas for skidding. I knocked down one tree with the loader and when pushing the root ball out nearly stalled in a gear that can provide 3,000 pounds of tractive force at the ground - did not spin. Shifted to a gear that can provide 10,000 pounds of tractive force and the ball pushed out. This information is just so you can see that I am putting force on the tires.
When I washed the tires down at the end of the day they were no worse for wear.
I did work the tractor hard in the mud, dirt and the rocks. Doing some log skidding. One tree that I pulled out was 18" in diameter at the lower part and about 60 feet long so there should have been some force on the tires. Kept the tractor up in the dry areas for skidding. I knocked down one tree with the loader and when pushing the root ball out nearly stalled in a gear that can provide 3,000 pounds of tractive force at the ground - did not spin. Shifted to a gear that can provide 10,000 pounds of tractive force and the ball pushed out. This information is just so you can see that I am putting force on the tires.
When I washed the tires down at the end of the day they were no worse for wear.