Marc
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You guys have R4's on your tractors?
We've got ag tires on our Branson 3820, rear tires are filled with beet juice and I found it close to unstoppable in 4wd last year. And we had more snow in NE last year than we've had in a long time.
I couldn't get it to go through a dense drift up hill that was about 6" deeper than the top of the front axle, but I honestly don't think chains would've done it any better. It was trying to push up and climb over so much snow it was about stalling out. I just dug my way through. Things drain pretty well around here though so we don't usually have lots of ice to deal with.
We do put chains on our '63 MF 85, that does pretty well in the snow with chains, near useless w/o em.
We've got ag tires on our Branson 3820, rear tires are filled with beet juice and I found it close to unstoppable in 4wd last year. And we had more snow in NE last year than we've had in a long time.
I couldn't get it to go through a dense drift up hill that was about 6" deeper than the top of the front axle, but I honestly don't think chains would've done it any better. It was trying to push up and climb over so much snow it was about stalling out. I just dug my way through. Things drain pretty well around here though so we don't usually have lots of ice to deal with.
We do put chains on our '63 MF 85, that does pretty well in the snow with chains, near useless w/o em.