I'm about to buy a L2501 or CK2610 (leaning L2501 now) and have been pondering what tires to put on it. Titan's new R14's look interesting but aren't available on an L yet. The vast majority of L's I see have R4's on them with R1 Ag's on the remaining and I'm just wondering why that is?
My use will be a combination of grapple, loader, snow removal with the bucket, rear blade, and small fields to cut down once or twice a year with a rotary cutter.
I had R4's then Turfs on the same tractor and for what I do the Turfs actually seemed to perform better overall. They rode nicer and gave better traction on grass, snow and ice, and at least as good in dirt. The better traction was especially apparent on a particular grass side slope where the rear my tractor with R4's would often slip but after changing to R3's never did.
The Turfs did not do as well in mud, and having 4 ply sidewalls not as stiff so I did puff the fronts up a little more when doing heavy loader and grapple use. In my experience having two flats from punctures from the same broken off metal fence post (I finally found it and pounded it down!) I had one on an R4 the second was on a Turf. Still R4's have to be more puncture resistant than R3's.
Just curious for anyone else with experience using both R4's and Turfs what is your preference and why?
My use will be a combination of grapple, loader, snow removal with the bucket, rear blade, and small fields to cut down once or twice a year with a rotary cutter.
I had R4's then Turfs on the same tractor and for what I do the Turfs actually seemed to perform better overall. They rode nicer and gave better traction on grass, snow and ice, and at least as good in dirt. The better traction was especially apparent on a particular grass side slope where the rear my tractor with R4's would often slip but after changing to R3's never did.
The Turfs did not do as well in mud, and having 4 ply sidewalls not as stiff so I did puff the fronts up a little more when doing heavy loader and grapple use. In my experience having two flats from punctures from the same broken off metal fence post (I finally found it and pounded it down!) I had one on an R4 the second was on a Turf. Still R4's have to be more puncture resistant than R3's.
Just curious for anyone else with experience using both R4's and Turfs what is your preference and why?