Does anyone use tire chains on their UTV

[timswi]

Never actually needed chains on my RTV's regardless of weather or conditions and everything around here is a hill..

 

[DIXIEDOG]

Never actually needed chains on my RTV's regardless of weather or conditions and everything around here is a hill..

A bit of ice changes everything. My RTV 500 moved a good amount of snow until there was a thin coat of ice on the ground. I started with the work site tires and later purchased a set of the factory atv tires as well after hearing multiple success stories about them. Neither set provided sufficient traction for plowing or trudging through the deep stuff. My Gator 825 didn't need chains either until we had an ice storm, after I slid sideways down the driveway and put a nice dent in my hybrid snowmobile trailer I didn't think I needed them on that either. My trailer still has it's dent and now my Gator wears chains in the winter as do both of my tractors. :laughing:

 

[ernemats]

What type of chains did you get for your Gator? Do they seem like they help a lot?

 

[DIXIEDOG]

What type of chains did you get for your Gator? Do they seem like they help a lot?

I went with atv diamond studded chains and they help a ton...I had the same style chain on my Kubota RTV and I also have a set on my Kubota BX

International Chain & Cable - ATV Tire Chains

 

[RoyJackson]

why mess around with less capable traction options? :laughing:

Mostly because chains might be a couple hundred bucks...tracks are a few thousand (or more) bucks!

 

[RoyJackson]

A bit of ice changes everything. My RTV 500 moved a good amount of snow until there was a thin coat of ice on the ground. I started with the work site tires and later purchased a set of the factory atv tires as well after hearing multiple success stories about them. Neither set provided sufficient traction for plowing or trudging through the deep stuff. My Gator 825 didn't need chains either until we had an ice storm, after I slid sideways down the driveway and put a nice dent in my hybrid snowmobile trailer I didn't think I needed them on that either. My trailer still has it's dent and now my Gator wears chains in the winter as do both of my tractors. :laughing:

You ought to post or link to that YouTube video you have...IIRC, you posted right after you got your BOSS plow.
Still have that plow? And the Gator?