jcummins
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2007
- Messages
- 1,637
- Location
- Creal Springs, IL
- Tractor
- Kubota M7040, F3680, Mule Pro Fxt
I may be missing something.....but. More rubber on the ground gives more traction on dry ground. Racing slicks have no tread to get more traction. But drag racers don't race in the mud, that's a different type race and mud racers want the biggest space possible between tire lugs. What am I missing? I've owned many Kubota tractors and mowers and even a RTV. For mowers I want turf tires with the most rubber on the ground. For RTV with mixed use I want bigger space between lugs for the sometimes run thru the creek bed. For tractors (with FEL and rear implements) I want heavy duty side walls and better traction for off mowed yard work so I buy the I(R)4 tires.
I to have gotten my F3080 stuck one time in a swamp area at the back corner of my rental mostly flat land, that's right, once, since I know the turf tires become like balloons in slimy slick swamps so I stay away from that one small spot on my F and now my ZD326. At home on the dry ground hillsides and dry woods trails I think I want the turfs because of them having the most rubber on the ground for the best traction on the dry ground.
I do see and understand the desire for different tires for different ground but for dry yard mowing I'm believing I or others are confused. JC, I agree that you need different tires for mowing wet areas or chains or something or stay away from it on your F with turf tires.Maybe make a ditch like depression across the wet edge of the pond and then straddle the wet ditch.
One among others that I didn't change the tires. BUT seems there is several 'testimonies' of improved traction with these AT101s AND the lost of the ZTR divit on turns, that they 'seem' to be an improvement. There's one particular youtube video out there where the guy says....why did I wait to change tires so long....it was that much of an improvement.
I've take the F3680 thru a small ditch on a regular basis...a wet ditch at times too. I don't dally when I do that. But it's narrow. When my front tires are in the ditch my rears aren't and vice versa. I've got it stuck twice. Once crossing a muddy below pond overflow area...it was wide. All four tires in the muck at the same time, and those turf tires loaded up immediately. I have since laid several bricks in that area to be able to cross when the pond is overflowing. The one other time was on the inside slope of a pond dam....it was damp that day, and it started sliding to the water, and I just had no room to correct it. Sanity took over and I called the wife to bring the gator to gently pull me out before I made it much worse. My point is.....I have areas where I'm at the brink of losing traction, and it's not the machine, it's the tires.