<font color="blue"> I might also try to find another board for the competing brand just to make sure I got a balanced story.</font>
Pete (& others), I think this leads to duplicate posting. In the Deere forum you get JD vs XXX brand and in the XXX brand forum you get XXX brand vs. JD. There is a current thread in progress discussing duplicate posting.
The general buying, pricing, comparison forum should be more neutral ground for all brand owners. But what I'm hearing here, the feeling is, it's more like open season on Deere (poor choice of words, sorry.) I would say there is a comfort zone for specific brand owners in their respective brand forums (which makes complete sense to me).
Discussing multiple brands in brand specific forums does take a certain amount of tolerance from the 'home' team & sincere posts from the non-resident brand owners. But then again, that's what the general buying, pricing, comparison forum is all about.
If only it was a perfect world.....
Don
PS: Turf Tires; I have felt turf tires have served me well. I am in a less aggressive environment. More grass, less woods. Depends on your uses.