bones774

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I picked up a TO20 over winter and haven't ridden it much yet, it's been snowy in NE. The few times I took it out it performed horrible in the snow, just a couple of inches and tires spun. The tires are not loaded. I have Titan Turf torq tires if anyone is familiar. I am planning on launching my boat off a local sandy beach and I'm concerned if these are the wrong tires for that purpose. Some of the nieighbors have those "paddle type ATV tires" and they kinda dig themselves into a hole. I'm getting varying opinion as to whether these tires will work well. If they don't i'm thinking would they be better off if I loaded them and second and/or if I could use some type of chains to improve traction.
Thanks
 
If you are saying you have "TURF" tires those will not be any good in the snow or for working in a field or garden even if you weight them. Those are for grass. A turf tire is fairly smooth where as a field tire has fairly deep lugs. If I understand what you are saying about the paddle type ATV tires those work very well in sand.
 
I am not sure about the turf tires in sand but I don't think I would hold out to much hope for them in sand. Of course you can try & see what happens. I do not know.
 
I would think that on sand a tuff tire would work well since there design is to keep from cutting into a lawn and sand tends to be soft like a lawn so your not as likely to dig your self in with them. I have a creek on my place and the 2 loader tractor I use in the creek have the common traction type tire used on most tractor and I have to be careful about not spinning much or I can end up dug in so deep I have to use another tractor to get back out
 
That's what another neighbor told me. Trying to get a consensus on this. In a couple of weeks the beach will be exposed and i'll find out.
 

Try running the with very low air pressure , the side wall will bulge and you will get more soil or sand contact . From memory 8psi was used for ploughing , as low as 4 psi for difficult loose terrain .
 
(quoted from post at 19:07:50 03/28/18) I'll keep that in mind. what's recommended as normal, 28psi?

Maybe for the front. Twelve is normal for the rear. I blow a lot of snow and used to do some plowing too. Regular tractor tread, and nothing but air in them. I did not want to waste hp by filling the tires. :lol:

But, more important, I did not want the safety hazard of handling a 400 lb tire alone.

I use chains in the winter. And I have pulled out my full size pickup more than a few times with it.
 
Rear tires on a tractor be it what ever tractor should be around 10-15 PSI and 15 is high for 99% of them.

Front tires 30-35 PSI.
 
My dad even went so far as to buy a set of duals for our Ford 841S that has a loader on it due to the fact he would get stuck in the creek but he also spun the rear tires a lot so he dug in a lot
 

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