Sure glad I got 4WD!

[Yalerider]

As some of you know it rains occasionly here in the Pacific Northwest. I am so happy I got 4WD. I have clay soil and wouldn't be able to turn very well without it. My only issue now is to figure out how to get the muck off of my tires when I go down the highway to the other side of my property.

 

[pekabu]

High gear! (Warning: Eye protection a must) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Highbeam]

Before trailering the tractor after filling the treads with our nice clay I have tried a few things like running quickly down a gravel road which just puts a layer of grit on the clay, or running around on grass which just wets the outside of the clay, or my best so far is a good bit of work in a soil other than clay if you can find it. That seems to work the best but the clay immediately finds the tread again when you let your guard down for a minute.

The clay should mostly stay put while on the highway if you run about the same speed that you were while off-road.

 

[CTyler]

A 1/4 mile run in high gear works for me on the gravel road. Or a trip up/down my drive, about 600' each way. I don't get to happy with the speed either or stuff will REALLY fly.

 

[Yalerider]

I agree that running up and down my gravel road gets rid of most of it. The problem is the other side of my property is muddy no gravel road to run up and down on before going onto the pavement. Haven't got any complaints yet about mud on the road, but you know how some people are.
/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[OKnewguy]

I know that some of the 4x4 mud boggers use pam srayed on the tires (before hand). I have not tried it myself but I hear it works well.
Dave /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[LBrown59]

A 2 wheel drive tractor is about as out dated as the old crank operated telephone.

 

[LBrown59]

<font color="blue"> Or a trip up/down my drive, about 600' each way. </font>

Then you get to pick up all the dirt and mud off the drive way or clean it up out off the grass if you run it through the yard.

 

[unreconstructed]

Yalerider,

I have both!! (the tele and the 2WD) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Yalerider]

Well nuthin wrong with either. I grew up on the old Ford and Massey's on my friends farm. And the telephone only came in black. You did have a choice of wall or desk mount tho. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Well nuthin wrong with either. I grew up on the old Ford and Massey's on my friends farm. <font color="red"> * </font> the telephone only came in black. You did have a choice of wall or desk mount tho. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif )</font>

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This must have been around the forties and fifties.
<font color="red"> * </font> But it didn't have a crank on it did it! The phone I was refuring to goes back farther than that one.It was wall mounted & had a wodden cabnet.
To use it you lifted the receiver hanging on the left side and spun the crank on the right side with your right hand.

 

[frank_f15]

I would not worry about it, around here farm tractors are constantly leaving mud on the roads, not much they can do about it and we learn to live with it.

 

[ByronBob]

You mean they make roads out of something other than mud? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Highbeam]

Maybe tomorrow before I finish for the day I will go out and run the road at top speed to see if I can fling the clay off.

 

[LarryD]

Around here I have no problem with the dirt sticking to the tires, for some reason the glacial till just falls right off. Of course it doesn't grow much besides thistle and berries.

I do stack the manure every few weeks and that does stick to the tires quite well, then I just drive the perimeter trail to get the bulk of it off. I figure in about 10 years the perimeter will have topsoil. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Highbeam]

Well I tried the fling method. The dirt/gravel road was dry and wasn't adding to the muddy tires so I put her in top gear and full rpm and ran back and forth on that dirt/gravel road. Lots of mud flung off but deep in the tread the mud remained. It doesn't seem right to go that fast on a tractor. Now I've got mud flung up and stuck to parts of the tractor that used to be pretty clean like the tops of fenders and such. You just can't win.