2072 rear tires

[john hall]

I do tote the front end a lttle bit but the back is riding on the ground. When I rebuilt the deck and mule drive I found lots of wear on the deck hangers and mule drive. It took quite a bit of welding and grinding to get rid of it.

[squatch]

I've found that the Supers tend to be light in the behind. Especially for something that makes the power they do. The stock turf tires are fine on flat dry ground. Add some dew or a grade and they are trash even with wheel weights. I added TruPower ag's on the rear and v61 ribs on the front of mine. 3 gals of windshield washer fluid in each front and 8 gals in each rear along with 50 lb wheel weights and it'll dang near climb a wet tree now. Rolling velcro. It's like a different tractor now. Got the tires from Miller tire. Great customer service.

[john hall]

[QUOTE=squatch;121967]I've found that the Supers tend to be light in the behind. Especially for something that makes the power they do. The stock turf tires are fine on flat dry ground. Add some dew or a grade and they are trash even with wheel weights. I added TruPower ag's on the rear and v61 ribs on the front of mine. 3 gals of windshield washer fluid in each front and 8 gals in each rear along with 50 lb wheel weights and it'll dang near climb a wet tree now. Rolling velcro. It's like a different tractor now. Got the tires from Miller tire. Great customer service.


Definetly a serious pulling setup you have there. If weights don't help, I'll look into some Ag tires--the least agressive ones I can find since I'm not pulling anything heavy or gardening.

[squatch]

So far I don't use ground engaging equipment either. Just mowing and pulling trailers and pushing snow. But my property is hilly and north facing so it takes a while to dry from dew, rain, ect. Turfs were tearing up the place spinning! The tractor feels so much safer and more stable with good traction and the filled tires on the sloping areas. Because they don't spin the AG's do much less damage as well.

[weaverama]

I agree with Squatch; the tractor is safer because you no longer have to worry about getting stuck on an uphill slope when the turfs start to spin. You just lay on the lever and horse it up the hill. Nothing worse than starting to spin on an uphill and having to back down. If that front end starts to slide around whilst backing down, it leads to all sorts of bad things. I put Ag's on all of my tractors, the V61's are my next step because it looks as if they will track better when pushing snow. Daggone I miss pushing snow.

[Dave01]

I'd like to hear someone else's opinion on rolling the deck or suspending it - do you agree with me that it ought to be suspended, or with John that it ought to roll to take pressure off the hangers? One more comment on it - if you hang the deck, there's another 200 lbs. low down where you want it giving you more traction.

[Iowa Farmboy]

I hang my Haban deck on my 2072. Less chance of scalping as you are going to bridge the bumps with the longer wheel base of the tractor.

[squatch]

I have a 50c deck not the 60"Haban which I hear is much heavier. I hang mine and set the wheels so they just kiss the ground at the height I like to mow. There was a lot of wear on my hanger pins as well when I got the tractor. I had them welded up as well and reshaped them with some file work. Judging from the style of adjuster on the dolly wheels of the Haban deck I would suspect they are meant to carry a good bit of the load.

[squatch]

I pulled my 17' Bassboat up the hill of my backyard today on damp grass with my 1872 to get it up in the drive. It never even thought about spinning a tire!