Posted by Clint Dixon [172.71.254.190] on Friday, December 09, 2022 at 06:41:57 :
In Reply to: Re: worthless as tits on a boar hog! posted by john eickhof [172.71.142.175] on Thursday, December 08, 2022 at 17:17:41 :
I agree on them being bad on ice and wet crowned blacktop roads. Don't know if blacktop roads exist all around the country, but they are common here in rural Illinois. They are quite different from asphalt, are usually noticeably crowned, and when it rains, a oily film can rise to the surface. We get all varieties of snow here. I have found them to be good in snow (off-road) if it is the heavy wet kind and not so deep that the tires cannot dig down to a firm surface.
On the off camber point, I have to argue.
I used to mow with my Power-Wagons by pulling a trail behind PTO driven Brillion flail type mower/stalk cutter. All of this was done on a sidehill on a 2-acker lot with two creeks cutting it in half and an altitude change of about 50 feet from mcreek bank to the top of the hill. In places I could not drive straight up the hill with any kind of tires, but I could safely drive straight across the sidehill with NDT tread tires even when the grass was wet. This was a sidehill that I would not have even attempted if it was any steeper at all. It was just shy of the point of tipping over. Years of four wheeling around our Midwestern topography had taught me when to say "no" - the hard way.
The only time I had any trouble driving on a sidehill, in wet grass or loose soil, with the NDT tires, was if I got too agressive and lost traction with my rear All-Trac positive locking differential. In those cases, the rear of the truck would want to swing around downhill. With an open differential, just the uphill side of the rear would loose traction and simply spin. I never experienced any problems with the front (more weight of course) loosing traction.
I have always been happy with NDT tires. But the conditions here are probably quite different around the country. As far as plowing snow, I have never tried without tire chains on all four wheels.
Individual results may vary. ;^)
Junior