Off Roading Testing out the new shoes!

[SOOT]

Took the dually out a couple months ago after I installed the firestone destination M/T's.

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[JR]

Nice looking rig Soot. How do you like the Destinations? I was considering them when I bought my GoodYear Duratracs but was worried the Destinations might not wear so well with the aggressive tread. The Duratracs are slightly less agressive and run a tighter tread pattern in the center. Kind of a compromise.

BTW, I grew up in Laramie. I still have family there and in Douglas, Wheatland, and Cheyenne. We were just out there in July. Great country, I miss it.

 

[SOOT]

Thanks! They have worn very quickly. I just moved to Texas so just put 1700 highway miles on them and they show it. To my surprise they are wearing evenly tho. At slow speeds they are very rough. The only reason I got them is they were free with 90% tread, so I can't complain. I don't normally run anything this aggressive on my DD, I won't again.

 

[JR]

Hmmm, free rubber that normally runs north of a grand... . I'd run em too! And look good doing it!

 

[SOOT]

Yap yap! I used to work for a new steel and scrap metal recycling place and we hauled in a bunch of vehicles that had these tires on them. The shoes on the dually were slicks so I asked the boss if I could have the ones from a dually I had just hauled in and he said yes! I am also friends with a lady that owns a local tire shop and she let me use her tire machine and balancer to mount them for free! Its all in who you know these days.

 

[Joseph Donnelly]

It looks like those tires do well off road. I suspect the better tires off road wear fast on the highway due to softer rubber compounding. Ram is using Firestone Transforce HT in 275-70-18 on the 2013 3500 SRW.

 

[SOOT]

Yap Joe you're right. Thats why I would normally not run anything this aggressive on my DD. When I buy the next set of shoes I will go back to the Goodyear Silent armors. They have by far been the best tire I have ever run for wear and snow and ice.

 

[Joseph Donnelly]

I was going to say you won't get much snow and ice in Texas, but then I remembered the huge snow and ice dump around 1991 in Amarillo when I was going through there and Oklahoma (big time ice storm around OK city and west on I40).

 

[JR]

I ran a set of 285/75 Silent Armors I think they were the best tires I've ever owned. I picked up a set of take offs off of a 12 Laramie in early spring and have been less than impressed with the traction and wear of the OEM BFG's. I have literally been stuck in wet grass in the fields in 2 Wheel drive. Never had that problem before. Before the snow flies I am going to replace them with either another set of the Silent Armors or a set of Tread Wrights.



https://www.treadwright.com/p-97-285-70-17-warden-a-t-e. aspx

 

[SOOT]

Joe, I was on the gulf coast in 05 when they had 13in of snow Christmas morning!

 

[HHhuntitall]

I remember the morning before it hit you guys... . I spent several hours feeding cows, then I went around to play on the highways, and ended up pulling several trucks up some hills on I-35, so they could get to the truck stops... ... Even the wreckers were helpless!! But the 38. 5" Boggers would just dig in on the shoulder, hop a little, and then go on down the road!! We had ice under the snow, here.

Luckily, the next day by 2pm, it was pretty much all gone off the highways.....

 

[fest3er]

I was going to say you won't get much snow and ice in Texas, but then I remembered the huge snow and ice dump around 1991 in Amarillo when I was going through there and Oklahoma (big time ice storm around OK city and west on I40).

Or the time in the mid-80s when I drove from Clovis to Armadillo (enroute from Las Cruces back to Boston in my 200SX). Somewhere around Hereford there was 40-60 miles of 12", hard-packed, well-pocked snow and ice; 25 MPH was fast that day. But they should be used to that weather up there. When El Paso gets 10" of snow, they get kind-of lost.

 

[SOOT]

Its very entertaining to watch people attempt to drive when it snows down here. In the northern part they are used to the ice but not the snow.
HH, I went out to my uncles place to pick up my cuz and on the way back there was an suv in the ditch. when I pulled up to him, he was on his hands and knees trying to dig himself out with his hands! I pulled off into the ditch and made me a road by goin back and forth and then pulled him out. He was happy since he was late for work. The night before I watched an suv do a cookie at about 25mph on a divided highway. They didnt hit anything so it was rather funner.

 

[DennyDay]

I was going to say you won't get much snow and ice in Texas, but then I remembered the huge snow and ice dump around 1991 in Amarillo when I was going through there and Oklahoma (big time ice storm around OK city and west on I40).

Mr. Donnelly - - You seem to have forgotten about Amarillo in the winter - - the locals tell me that in the winter there is nothing between Amarillo and the North Pole except a barbed wire fence - - and its usually down!

 

[mfurrh55]

2 Christmas's ago it took me 3 days to get out of Texas, Amarillo 18" snow

 

[HHhuntitall]

2 Christmas's ago it took me 3 days to get out of Texas, Amarillo 18" snow

Yep. I was snowed in on one of my ranches in Kent Co. , Tx... ... The snow made the hogs come to the wheat fields hard... Dad and I had a blast killing 'em. I think we both killed over 50 apiece in 4 days... . We'd shoot at 'em, they'd go down the river and come up in another field... We'd be waiting. That went on for 3-4 days, and then they went nocturnal, but we went up in the canyons off the river, jumping them up out of the brush..... Best hunt I've had with my dad to date!! We both ran out of ammo for our bolt guns, so I gave him my AR and I took my shotgun with buckshot. Better than dealing with the idiots on the highway!!!