Have we talked about these?
 

Its a tire chain alternative, probably not as good as chains on ice, but chains do a pretty good job of slipping right across ice.


https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...p%2F2294264168

Got them, never considered regular chains due to marking concrete.

A little cheaper for you on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/TerraGrips-Ti.../dp/B009SMU9MK

Neighbor made a set for his tractor. You could probably get the rubber from a tire shop that cuts up their tires. The machine chops about 1 1/2 wide strip out of the tire. My shop has dumpster loads of cut up tires weekly.

How do they work?

I have a set of them, and they were quite a bit cheaper when I bought them, I think right around $100. They are definitely better than nothing, but not as good as regular chains. I only ever used them on gravel, never tried on pavement. I also never had wheel weights with them, but I imagine they would help a lot. They are near useless on ice, but work ok otherwise. I have used them for 3 seasons, and it seems like each year they work less and less. It didn’t take long at all for them to start wearing down. Maybe they would last longer on pavement. We had one heavy snow this year, and with them on my 1450, I wasn’t going anywhere. After that, I put a set of regular chains on my 125, and with wheel weights, it’s a night and day difference. We have not had a heavy snow yet to try them, but I did try pushing back some piles left over from the last storm, and it did a great job, even on ice. I don’t think I would have been able to do that with the traction belts.

I have a pair I purchased in the mid 1990's. Works ok on our blacktop driveway. If the snow is not too deep or wet there is adequate traction going down the hill, but limited going up. Trying to push the lump at the end of the drive or at the mailbox results in a churning of the tires/treads.

Backing up the drive with the snow blower in deep snow is almost impossible due to the weight shift from the rear.

Yes, I do have wheel weights, 40# each wheel, another 50 on the rear hitch and sometimes have my wife stand on the hitch weights.

Last year I replaced about 1/3 of the treads due to delamination. Not too bad after 20+ years of light use in south east Pa. At least the driveway is not marked.