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Test Siped Tires in Snow/Ice

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$500 Tire Groover Versus $6,000 Equipment tires

What happens here

With all four tires siped with the straight-line pattern, the front-end loader is tested in icy and snowy conditions. The operator immediately notices a significant improvement in traction, with the tires biting into the ice and snow much more effectively than before. The machine can now push larger piles of snow without losing grip or slipping. The new grooves prevent the tires from skidding, confirming the success and cost-effectiveness of the siping process as an alternative to expensive winter tires or chains.

Goal: Operate the heavy-duty truck with the newly siped tires in snow and ice to evaluate the enhanced traction.

Tools and materials

  • Front-End Loader SDLG L918F

What they say

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be as safe as this thing [Music] all right those tires look sweet this is the first test of the new tires first gear so we will have a future snow plowing video coming out and we will have a lot more coverage of these tires in different types of conditions but what we're gonna do here is just warm it up and then take the machine over to the other side of the parking lot where it's a hundred percent snow covered and underneath there's a layer of ice and what that means is i'm gonna be able to scrape the snow off but still be riding on the ice which i think is a pretty good test to push these tires see in my opinion that run doesn't count very well because it was already bare asphalt i'm not on ice i want to be on just pure ice see what i'm scraping off though underneath is the ice that i'm seeking and this run is going to give it to me hey siri what's the tempo so it's 23 degrees outside so the sun is melting it it's hitting the pavement and freezing so this is slick stuff yes underneath you can see the layer of ice and that's what i really wanted to test these tires oh look at that rolling yeah get it girl yeah looks like our homemade winter tires are doing what they're supposed to do all right i'm feeling good about that the old tires would have never done that nope no way no way you guys know that watch [Music] she would have kept going i think we made a lot of an improvement on attraction of a machine for 500 bucks in like four hours of work

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