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1944mb, here in W KY we can get any type of snow, and it's most likely not quite what the forecasters predict. This time it was sleet on top of warm ground (60*F and rain for about 12 hrs before the sleet), then dry snow that blew into troublesome drifts. That's not the norm, usually the snow...
I just drove it through the snow covered soft ground of last years corn field. It went fine up some mild hills. At times I got some understeer due to the rear end pushing the front NDT around. And when attempting to climb the pond levee at a slight angle it spun and started to slide sideways...
Karl, I agree that weight in the rear would help, with the assumption that the ground is solid. I think I'd rather have no weight and keep duals so that I'm "treading as lightly as possible" for any off roading with soft footing. (I might attempt a pass through the field tomorrow to see how...
Frozen lake? Nice! That doesn't happen much around here; I did drive my old car on the pond back in 96/97.
My driveway is gravel, the roads are paved, and we have some "hills" (nothing that a little running start won't get you over). My truck has 6 NDT and 4 tires like a 70 farm "2 ton"...
W Kentucky got some of this winter weather, and I'm wishing I had my xm211 ready for it. Our roads were warm when the sleet hit, which has left a sheet of ice under the 6-10" of snow, so if a tire breaks through the snow traction is nil. Now random drifts are sticking people. I know even...