marathonracer
Adventurer
At the risk of starting yet another obligatory tire thread I would like some input on the thoughts between these two tires. My truck is used pretty much for working in the woods guiding. It sees very little pavement and most of the time is spent getting to the good spots. If narrowed my selection down to these two tires and these two sizes based on snow performance.
Frequently the truck will see mud and slop, packed snow, then 12-18" un packed snow all in the same day. If I'm out all day I may return to the truck and have to run miles of deeper new snow covered road out to the major logging artery which would be packed snow.
My thoughts so far:
285 75 16 duratrac: good snow performance on packed snow and loose snow clean out okay.
255 toyo mt: no first hand experience in snow but guys seem to love them in the deep stuff, not sure on the packed snow. Great in the mud. The tall skinny size would be better in the snow plus gives the truck a little extra room underneath
The truck is a 1st gen tundra DC. I do run chains on the rears on occasion. Thanks to a great UCA design I can't run them on the front.
Thoughts?
Frequently the truck will see mud and slop, packed snow, then 12-18" un packed snow all in the same day. If I'm out all day I may return to the truck and have to run miles of deeper new snow covered road out to the major logging artery which would be packed snow.
My thoughts so far:
285 75 16 duratrac: good snow performance on packed snow and loose snow clean out okay.
255 toyo mt: no first hand experience in snow but guys seem to love them in the deep stuff, not sure on the packed snow. Great in the mud. The tall skinny size would be better in the snow plus gives the truck a little extra room underneath
The truck is a 1st gen tundra DC. I do run chains on the rears on occasion. Thanks to a great UCA design I can't run them on the front.
Thoughts?