Wild ride today

JohnDeereJimOhio · Dec 14, 2013

We just moved and built our new house. Our driveway is pretty wicked and we knew that coming into it. Well today I went to blade it with my 4010 it was a pretty scary experience. I let the snow sit on it for a few days and it packed and got icy. I was heading to my brothers to get my blade and I got almost to the top of our hill and she spun out and started sliding backwards. I slid down the hill about 150 feet it was pretty scary. One of the scariest things that has ever happened to me on a tractor. It was a very helpless feeling and I felt like I was doing 100mph sliding backwards. Im thinking its time for a set of chains? Would this help? Where is the best place to get 18.4x34 chains?

Sean Feeney · Dec 14, 2013

Gets you all puckered.
Chains

JH in NM · Dec 14, 2013

A set of chains will make all the difference in the world. We build our own from grader chains we have laying around, that we've accumulated over the years. Your local tire shop that carries ag tires should have them or be able to get them.

Larry EC-OH · Dec 14, 2013

While you're at it add ROPS if you don't already have it on the tractor. John Deere will sell you this at cost.
Yes, chains will definitely help.

Larry

M Nut · Dec 14, 2013

Put chains on ASAP and your problem will be solved. Just make sure they are the style that sits on your tire lugs, not the ladder style that falls between the tread bars. I prefer what they call duo Trac for the type I use. Not too rough riding, but aggressive enough to make a huge difference on ice.

37chief · Dec 14, 2013

I know what you were feeling. Sometimes I would get going up a hill mowing, and the tires would just spin. I would back up, the the brakes on my MF 231 just don't hold that good, and for a few seconds I would not be in control going back wards, but not 150 ft. I would give you a pucker factor of 9.5 out of a possible 10. Glad you rode it out, and are ok. Stan

Jim in Ma. · Dec 14, 2013

My tractors don"t move without chains from about Thanksgiving till mid April and one small one has them on all year.

oldtanker · Dec 14, 2013

(quoted from post at 17:19:33 12/14/13) We just moved and built our new house. Our driveway is pretty wicked and we knew that coming into it. Well today I went to blade it with my 4010 it was a pretty scary experience. I let the snow sit on it for a few days and it packed and got icy. I was heading to my brothers to get my blade and I got almost to the top of our hill and she spun out and started sliding backwards. I slid down the hill about 150 feet it was pretty scary. One of the scariest things that has ever happened to me on a tractor. It was a very helpless feeling and I felt like I was doing 100mph sliding backwards. Im thinking its time for a set of chains? Would this help? Where is the best place to get 18.4x34 chains?

LOL I've slid down more than one icy hill in a tank. You are completely helpless. The only thing anyone can do is drop completely in side the turret (loader and tank commander) and hold on.

Yea chains help big time.

Rick

ss55 · Dec 14, 2013

Tractor chains will help the trator, but if a tractor slid backwards then a car or a pickup will also have some big control problems. Can you rough up the ice with a moldboard plow or put down sand or salt to increase traction?

When I was a kid a slick driveway ment you drove the vehicles in as far as you could, then parked the vehicles and either walked or rode a tractor the rest of the way into the yard.

old · Dec 14, 2013

Any thing can/will slide on ice. Still remember a neighbor who has land past me and he came in with a large dozier on ice. It had wide tracks on it and he figured he would be just find coming down the hill. Well he was wrong and he slid down the hill out of control and even the blade did not help

da.bees · Dec 14, 2013

I was easing up a red clay hill with a round bale on the rear when the tractor got squirrly. Yep,the old puckering string was pulled tight,,,then it must have snapped and things got messy.

Mark - IN. · Dec 14, 2013

You have a Deere. Can't get tire chains through your local Deere guy? I got my tires through mine and suppose that I could get chains through him as well, but I already have some. They aren't on yet because haven't needed them yet. How about your nearest AG tire dealer? Would think that can get them through them as well. I don't know, and someone will probably slam me for suggesting them, but might even be able to get (order) them through TSC for no more than you will need them overall.

Honestly don't know of anywhere where you will be able to walk in and buy 18.5 x 34 over the counter from the shelf stock. Since you will no doubt have to order them, how about off the internet? Let me go search "AG tractor tire chains" and see what comes up.

Out of control on a 4 ton or so tractor is nowhere to be. Good luck.

Mark
Maybe these guys...AG tractor chain menu at TireChain.com

oldtanker · Dec 14, 2013

(quoted from post at 21:40:56 12/14/13) You have a Deere. Can't get tire chains through your local Deere guy? I got my tires through mine and suppose that I could get chains through him as well, but I already have some. They aren't on yet because haven't needed them yet. How about your nearest AG tire dealer? Would think that can get them through them as well. I don't know, and someone will probably slam me for suggesting them, but might even be able to get (order) them through TSC for no more than you will need them overall.

Honestly don't know of anywhere where you will be able to walk in and buy 18.5 x 34 over the counter from the shelf stock. Since you will no doubt have to order them, how about off the internet? Let me go search "AG tractor tire chains" and see what comes up.

Out of control on a 4 ton or so tractor is nowhere to be. Good luck.

Mark
Maybe these guys...AG tractor chain menu at TireChain.com

And Jim, location can bite you on the butt. Guy near me built a new house. On a hill, overlooking an undeveloped small lake. beautiful view. And a drive that comes off the highway, rather steep with a split ess curve in it right after you turn off the road. He in MN it sucks to be them. They park just off the highway 4-5 months a year and walk up that hill.

Rick

ohiojim · Dec 15, 2013

took a couple tractor rides like that,..but the worst pucker factor came from a dozer ride on frozen ground pulling a fishburn frack tank...

workhorse puller · Dec 15, 2013

I have a set of chains that came with a tractor I bought they are like new if interested call me 618-363-8187 located in southern Illinois, half price of new.

ss55 · Dec 15, 2013

Many stores that sell tractor tires also sell new tractor tire chains. For used chains try some local auctions, local newspapers and Criags List. Posting a "Wanted" ad may get the fastest response.

In my opionion, double ring chains bite the best, followed by the twisted link chains, both are single row ladder type. The trick with ladder chains is to have links larger than the depth of your tire lugs, so the links can make contact with the ice. X and H chains that cannot roll tend to wear flat spots on the tops of the links and they just don't seem to bite as well on ice as a good ladder chain.

Frank 41 · Dec 15, 2013

Rode our school bus down a hill that slid into a ditch. Good thing that it did because the road teed just a little ways more. If he missed the turn we would have ended up about 15' lower into the creek bottom. I helped him put the chains on and we got out. I was hoping that I could have gotten out of school for the day.

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