Tkblacktail
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New Tires For Old Mule
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kneedeep
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Sticky mud in the deep South? Who ever heard of such a thing.........
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Has been known to swallow tractors, ATV's and pretty girls whole!!!
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Just did the same thing yesterday. Only with the 26" surefoot.
Did it just to extend the usefull season of the Mule in snow.
First impression is that the snow performance is improved, but I don't recognise that vastly improved ride that Essex speaks of. Just backing the machine out of the garage has my head bobbling side to side as the lugs engage the hard surface.
Did it just to extend the usefull season of the Mule in snow.
First impression is that the snow performance is improved, but I don't recognise that vastly improved ride that Essex speaks of. Just backing the machine out of the garage has my head bobbling side to side as the lugs engage the hard surface.
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kneedeep
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HMMM-:scratchchin:
Come to think of it, old tires rode good on hard surface but really let me down in the mud!
I'll trade head bobbin on hard ground and gettin' thru the mud over a smooth ride any day! :thumbsup:
Come to think of it, old tires rode good on hard surface but really let me down in the mud!
I'll trade head bobbin on hard ground and gettin' thru the mud over a smooth ride any day! :thumbsup:
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If I get any older, I might have to install one of those electric running boards on the side. Never thought getting in would be such a different experience. I'm used to driving around, leaving it in drive, jumping in and out picking up some small piece of debris or whatever. Sometimes I don't even wait for it to stop (hoping it will) or putting the e-brake on very lightly. That's not going to be so easy any more.
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I'M SO DISAPPOINTED!
First let me say that I think Essex is a wonderful company. Good people and good quality!
Yesterday I went out for run in the mule. Hit a six inch drift (not six feet) and stopped the machine dead in it's tracks! I had to look at the wheels because I thought maybe the front wheels wern't being driven. Or I thought the brakes were on! These tires are utterly useless in the snow. Possibly worse then OEM! I really thought that I might be stuck and had to get a loader to pull it out, but I managed to back out eventually!
I feel like I have thrown away fifteen hundred bucks plus a bunch of time and travel. I drove down to Niagara Falls to pick these up. I had spent a lot of time pondering this decision. It's money I really don't have to throw away and the OEM tires still looked like new after twelve years. Mud has never been an issue around here, so I can't even get use from these tires in that regard.
Not only that, but the directional stability of the Mule is terrible. It was never great with the OEM wheels but it's a hundred times worse now! And, if I do hit snow, the machine pulls heavily into the deepest part, something it never did before. I let half the air out of the tires, thinking that they were awfully hard, but this made no difference.
First let me say that I think Essex is a wonderful company. Good people and good quality!
Yesterday I went out for run in the mule. Hit a six inch drift (not six feet) and stopped the machine dead in it's tracks! I had to look at the wheels because I thought maybe the front wheels wern't being driven. Or I thought the brakes were on! These tires are utterly useless in the snow. Possibly worse then OEM! I really thought that I might be stuck and had to get a loader to pull it out, but I managed to back out eventually!
I feel like I have thrown away fifteen hundred bucks plus a bunch of time and travel. I drove down to Niagara Falls to pick these up. I had spent a lot of time pondering this decision. It's money I really don't have to throw away and the OEM tires still looked like new after twelve years. Mud has never been an issue around here, so I can't even get use from these tires in that regard.
Not only that, but the directional stability of the Mule is terrible. It was never great with the OEM wheels but it's a hundred times worse now! And, if I do hit snow, the machine pulls heavily into the deepest part, something it never did before. I let half the air out of the tires, thinking that they were awfully hard, but this made no difference.
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I got stuck in a drift yesterday too. Had to shovel my way out. This drift was so hard, I could walk on it and barely leave a footprint. Of course the Mule broke through, and got hung up. But with regular undrifted snow, I found the Shurefoots are much better than OEM's. I can go through 6" in 2 wheel drive.
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I didn't have a shovel. One always seems to get blindsided. I had plowed that road of the ice and snow layers so I could get up to a small shack for New Years Eve with my newly equiped Mule. That worked, even though my driver complained that she didn't like the way the Mule was practically uncontrollable on the hard and icy surfaces. Yesterday, there was only freshly drifted snow, no ice! If it had been tough going, that's one thing, but I might as well have driven the thing into a lake for any hope that I might have had to get where I was going.