It's probably not the best choice but it works, and yep those snowbanks cause drifts, my driveway and end of the town road is all I do, so it's not that bad, I've got a decent size walk behind blower, once there is a frozen base above the driveway gravel it works pretty good.
One thing loaded tires does, is gives you ballast where you need it. I know a long time vegetable farmer with some really nice late model/new tractors, one an 80HP challenger (500 series) with true all wheel drive, several others, really like his set up. He went with loaded tires because he did not want the wheel weight stress on the axles. Kind of intellectual and technically savvy guy too, he helped wring out and provided some very good feedback about this challenger tractor that they incorporated into the design or design completion/finalization of that model, which the regional sales rep was very receptive to making sure it got to engineering, the local dealer was ticked at him and that relationship is no more. Feature for feature, he says he likes it better than deere which he has 2 of as well, we had an interesting conversation one afternoon, and although the CACL is old school, in his rationale about ballasting this tractor, he ended up going that route, for a couple of good reasons. Hard to say whether he'd use them to the point where he would be testing the stress on the axles from wheel weight, whichj you would think a manufacture would certainly allow for in the design or material selection, but if they are not manufactured like ones in the past, or it is a valid concern, it may have been a good move or one that makes you feel better, like I said, his stuff is so well kept and has specific purpose, without a bunch of different people running them, probably overkill, but I thought he had a good point at least, whether it actually makes a difference or not.
I'll say one thing, I certainly like that series tractor, and the relationship he fostered with the mfr, for now, I'll be running this classic and keeping same going for as long as is feasible.
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