My truck is in the ditch!

[holeycow]

My advice would be to get a set of v-bar tire chains. On my dump truck I have dualy chains for both rear tires. I've never needed any on the front.

a steering chain is a good thing to have at times, no?

 

[dragoneggs]

I'm enjoying this thread.

 

[Garandman]

Sometimes all it takes is an old farmer with the proper tractor and the proper attitude...Glad you got it out. :thumbsup:

My BIL has a Case/Farmall 130H which sounds like it's similar.

It will lift almost 5,000 lbs at the pins and breakout 6,000 lbs.

 

[LD1]

I had a 1985 dodge that had 35x16 r16.5 Boggers on it. I never could get that thing stuck in the snow. I could go through drifts till I was plowing snow with the front pipe bumper back in the fields, and if I couldnt go forward anymore, I'd just back out and go again.

According to you guys it should have sucked in the snow. But my 1/2-ton truck at the time, with comparably tall skinny tires, didnt make it far off the road at all. The dodge would go where ever I wanted.

 

[Egon]

Holeycow makes a pretty clear statement. If it's snow, mud or ice leave the wide tire's in the parking lot.

Not familiar with sand but for soft ground wide tracks work well.

Northern Alberta sees some interesting roads.

 

[aczlan]

I had a 1985 dodge that had 35x16 r16.5 Boggers on it. I never could get that thing stuck in the snow. I could go through drifts till I was plowing snow with the front pipe bumper back in the fields, and if I couldnt go forward anymore, I'd just back out and go again.

According to you guys it should have sucked in the snow. But my 1/2-ton truck at the time, with comparably tall skinny tires, didnt make it far off the road at all. The dodge would go where ever I wanted.

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It all depends on the tread depth and if you want to float on top, or sink down and dig in.
Your boggers had a very open tread design, so they would dig into the snow well and they were wide enough to float on hard snow.
If your half ton had "road tires" with a more closed tread pattern and less spaces, it would do poorly in the snow even if it were narrower.
Some examples:
Goodyear Wrangler HT (Goodyear - Page Not Found | Goodyear Tires

Bogger (Page not found | Interco Tire


Aaron Z

 

[LD1]

Point was that everyone keeps saying that a wide mud tire dont do well in the snow. And my 16" wide mud tires did just fine in the snow.

 

[Rustyiron]

I think it comes down to the wide variable's in the snow & temps, what's under the snow etc. You all have seen 1/2" of snow with the right conditions even walking on it turns it into a 1/4" of almost ice. I spent years in the mid atlantic and know this well, and yes (LD1) with 35/12.50/16's on my truck. Then there's the good light snow that almost blows out from under your tires and it doesn't matter really how deep it gets.
Everyone here that plows takes the stock tires off their truck and puts on a narrow studded tire for winter plowing. Maybe it's the studs, most of them have a couple of yards of salt sand in a spreader in the bed also, that helps things a lot.:confused3:

 

[LD1]

Winter tires are a whole different animal. True winter tires are a softer compound, totally different tread design, then add studs......thats just the way to go for winter.

For me, I like an all season tire and not have to buy an extra 6. I have found mastercraft courser HXT to be about the best in the snow I can find short of an actual winter tire CooperMastercraft - Courser HXT

 

[MossRoad]

Well, after reading several snow plowing forums, the consensus is singles give better traction VS dual, all else being kept equal.

Once you start getting into duals, pretty much everyone says you have to add weight to get traction.