Mud n Grass, best driving method?

Turboman said:

That should be a good set-up for traction, I have had ARBs front and rear in a series before, and it was great on the forestry tracks. Not too different in practice to my Detroit and Trutrac with centre diff locked.

You probably would get across OPs field,it is fairly flat!, as you say it would be a mess. But trust me, you wouldn't get up here, this is where the tractor bellied out years ago.
When the ground is steep and saturated the problems add up. you can see here the tracks where I have gone down the slope. But coming up would be a completely different story, any wheelspin would turn the clay to liquid, and once you sink in a foot, there is no progress. And the slope is far too steep to turn sideways at the worst part, you can see where I have turned where it is less steep at the bottom.

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My mate got a 110 on mud tyres stuck in a plowed field, I put the lockers in and set off accross with a 2 ton mini digger on a trailer, it started to slow so more throttle and the tyres clear and I was through, although the mini digger was caked in mud,

warrior said:

My mate got a 110 on mud tyres stuck in a plowed field, I put the lockers in and set off accross with a 2 ton mini digger on a trailer, it started to slow so more throttle and the tyres clear and I was through, although the mini digger was caked in mud,

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Maybe so, but all soils are different! And that field rises 100m in only about 200 linear

We have a rented farm.a few miles away from here, ground there is completely different, a black soil on granite. If you go down six inches you will be resting on the rock, no worries.

But the fields here are clay, up to six to eight feet deep in places before there is any subsoil, so when the clay is saturated, there is nothing to stop you going right down, hence the tractor sinking.

In the valley bottom, where the swing shovel sank as I posted earlier, he reached down over twenty feet into the marsh with the arm of the digger,without finding an hard ground. In such places there is no progress for wheeled vehicles at all, only an Argocat, or similar semi- amphibious can go.

Even in summer, I am quite regularly called to pull out my neighbours tractor when he is topping the growth in the marsh. I do this using a long rope, so my Massey stays on the better ground.

I've been with a friend at Muddy Bottom in their mud. Quite surprised that his LR gets stuck on some relatively small grassy hills with new BFG A/Ts when mine on old worn BFG M/Ts keeps going. I'd say tyres really matter on the wet muddy grass and there is a shocking difference in these conditions between muds and all terrains. My mud blocks stay clearer, keep biting, much reduced wheel spin and I can just drive off from standing when he is wheel spinning like crazy and/or stuck.