Tires

[Garry125 4]

I have a steep hill these turf savers 22x9.5x12 do nothing but spin.  I'm looking for a more aggressive tire.  Chains help alot.  Thanks

[ZXT 2,401]

42 minutes ago, Garry125 said:

I have a steep hill these turf savers 22x9.5x12 do nothing but spin.  I'm looking for a more aggressive tire.  Chains help alot.  Thanks

Do you want something as aggressive an an ag tire? Turf tires are almost always going to perform badly on hills, but an ag tire will likely mess up your grass. You might look around at atv tires, which would give you a more aggressive tread pattern. I know Deestone makes a good variety of tires, but I'm sure better suggestions will be offered. 

[WVHillbilly520H 10,376]

9 minutes ago, ZXT said:

Do you want something as aggressive an an ag tire? Turf tires are almost always going to perform badly on hills, but an ag tire will likely mess up your grass. You might look around at atv tires, which would give you a more aggressive tread pattern. I know Deestone makes a good variety of tires, but I'm sure better suggestions will be offered. 

Honestly AG tread tires do less (to NO) damage to the grass than "turf savers" spinning... I too have very hilly terrain to mow and weighted ( liquid or bolt on) AG tires are IMHO the best choice for mowing steep/hilly terrain... Also as tires age the rubber hardens and become less flexible thereby reducing bite/traction.

[Stormin 9,984]

Ag's would be my choice. I have them on two of my Wheel Horses and the Sears/Roper. Marking is minimal.

[pacer 3,177]

I dont have any hills but I do have a lot of trees and doing a tight turn around a tree with turfs they will spin badly, ags barely do...... I like my ags!

[adsm08 3,226]

2 hours ago, ZXT said:

Do you want something as aggressive an an ag tire? Turf tires are almost always going to perform badly on hills, but an ag tire will likely mess up your grass. You might look around at atv tires, which would give you a more aggressive tread pattern. I know Deestone makes a good variety of tires, but I'm sure better suggestions will be offered. 

 

Ags in any conditions will in no way tear your grass up as bad as so-called "turf saver" tires will when it is wet.

 

I am 33. My parents' yard is in the drain field of a large hill, and so it gets quite wet at times. I can still find ruts in places where I trenched the yard getting stuck with "turf savers" when I was 12. Sometimes you'd just get so stuck you had to give up and come back in a few days when things had dried out.

 

Now in my current yard (well the neighbor's yard, but I mowed it all summer) there is a similar low spot where two sumps empty into the yard. My JD with turfs would get stuck there. My 855 with Ags doesn't even notice when it is flooded. And they leave a V-bar mark in dry or damp ground that bounces back by the time the next lap comes around while mowing.