What if it Snows?

1) All tires should be the same Outside diameter. If not you will get strange stuff going on with tire scuffing and also start heating up/working diffs too much.

2) Probably mud and snow would have more rolling resistance than front running eco friendly tires. Mud and snow may be designed with softer sidewalls or rubber to get more contact patch on the ground.

3) roll down the window next time a log truck passes you. Compare that to a corporate type truck. Sand buggy tire loud? I don't think that much of a difference. Besides it's 10 feet behind you at freeway speed.

4)They are typically mud and snow. It can be hot while muddy. Think TX oil Fields....

5)A lot, but you're still a newb.... Oh wait pulling it back to the tire sphere..... I would ask those that have run them if they are worth the hassle of not being able to find a quick replacement on the road for a flat. I ran low Pro 22.5 cause most everyone has a mostly round one laying around that would get me moving.

 

Ok, honest, no joking answers here.
First understand that I run open deck, flatbed.
We tend to go into places that vans do not.

I use retread tires on drives and trailers.
Have a whole tire program worked out. Also have a very good company doing the caps, they are a Michelin products system. I use a traction tire on all drives.
These are the ones used Michelin retreads
Some may not like using caps, I have not had any problems with them.

 

Congrats if it is your first time at doing it. Now do a Briggs and Stratton (old style). If a neighbor or friend has a rewind they need done? I will do it for a handshake. Its a fun and miserable job. Wife watched me do it one day. She swore I had a talent for it and that I made it look easy. Too bad stuff is throw away now. A talent lost on ages of time.

 

What’s the gearing? 2.47?

 

Thanks.

Remember that storm that closed the 5 from Cottage grove to south of Canyonville? I had to throw iron to get out of a drop yard in Springfield, but two other trucks running snow tires motored I’m hooked their trailers and motored our. I was pissed.

 

I actually rebuilt a number of those which did not run before I got a hold of them in Shop class for small engines during one year of highschool. It's amazing how tearing down a cranky engine and clearing them up and putting them together does not take too long provided all the internals are intact as is the block. Some were tough to start though.

It was a interesting class. The Teacher said if you wanted to get a lawn mower engine from somewhere.... There were piles of them in salvage.

Fast forward to Arkansas time, I relied on Kolher 20 horse engines for many years until I accepted that the block would be a casualty after 5 years of mowing the way I did it. (Each mow was about once a week, consisted of about 50 miles driving while cutting.) Went through 4 of them so far.

For that kind of rate, I would just get a big dixie cutter once and it should be good for 20 years.