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Just used my new tractor to move a water tank in the soup today.... Tractor is the same deminsions (few inches longer and wider) of my little red one and 1500 pounds heavier but the traction really sucked. Driving across a very slight grade and it was sliding downhill the whole way and I had to steer with the brakes. Hard going pulling the tank up a slight grade also. Tires are bigger than the little tractor had (12.4x32 vs 11.2x28) but about shot (new ones should be ready to mount next week).

Little tractor would go anywhere.... Think my problem is just the tires, or could the weight be proportioned different also??? Should I have the tires loaded when I get new ones next week or would it not make any difference (enough to make it worthwhile). Majority of driving is on pavement or gravel, just moving hay/water tanks on the pastures/paddocks themselves is tricky.

Thanks for any tips......
 
Dave
Even tho you're driving mostly on pavement, you could have a bad accident if you're sliding going down hill on grass. Tires might no be the entire anwser, but suggest you start there and then see if you need weight.
 
(quoted from post at 13:40:13 12/10/11) Dave
Even tho you're driving mostly on pavement, you could have a bad accident if you're sliding going down hill on grass. Tires might no be the entire anwser, but suggest you start there and then see if you need weight.
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Went to have new ones put on yesterday but they had sold the two they told me they had on wednsday (too many spoons in the soup I guess)....

Get free mounting and tubes now but have to wait till next week for the tires..... Thinking (hoping) they'll be the main fix cause the ones on it are pretty slick and cracked (hard).....
 

got a little but not much more than a quarter inch.... Guess I'm just wondering if filling them while I'm having them mounted is worthwhile..... If so, it'll be cheaper to have it done now instead of later......
 
I might be biased,but all of mine are loaded except a few antique collector tractors. Only time it's a PITA is when I have to have them worked on. Been tempted to buy my own chloride pump,but I'm getting to old to be beating those things down anymore anyway.
 
Absolutely I would load the tires. It make all the difference,
especially if you have enough tread to grab. Tire chains will help
too once they get there.
Zach
 
I would never! put any solution in my tires. Half the weight of the fluid, added as wheel weights will pull the same. I usted to pull a 4010 JD in the 12000 lb NA class. Then I would pull the 13500 Farmer Class next, weighing just 12000 lb. I could out pull any 13500 tractor that had fluid in their tires. Vic
 
If you plan to put a loader on your tractor then yes you want to have fluid in the tires, otherwise you will need to put a BHT on the back of your tractor to use the loader. only other reason for fluid would be if you plan to use it for heavy tillage like plowing.
 
And I would never have a tractor without fluid, had a couple without over time and had perhaps 5 hundred pounds of concrete hanging on each wheel but if would have had them longer they would have had fluid in and the concrete gone and that would have only been because they did not have enough power for both. No loader on either. Tractors with loaders always had fluid and weights. And still not enough traction, sometimes chains as well.
 
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