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cold comfort farm

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Hiya all.
I am currently running Avon ATs and they are rubbish in light mud.

We live on a farm and 6 months of the year we are in fields in mud etc for 3 days per year we get stuck in the snow.
I am looking at BF goodrich AT or BFG mud. mud would be better off road but does anyone have any experience with these in snow. we live 1/2 mile from any tarmac road.
lots of reviews online but would like your opinions. Other options of tyres could be considered.

Ta stephen
 
Cooper stt, stx or at3 they are very good have a warrenty of 50-60K miles not sure which. look at there web site and they explain it very well. I am a cooper fan have been for 30+ years. I have used there AT with great results on farm and off road not a complaint. And have gotten 70-75kmiles with them doing a tyre rotation every 6k miles
 
i believe i've seen southern electric using bfg's round ere... i'd go for a reputable m/t if I were you, i know how boggy farms can potentially get, in my opinion yer landy ain't made to perform well enough to warrant not buying m/t's just because the a/t's handle a bit better on the road
 
discodrivercumbria said:
how many miles do you get out of a tyre? all purposes as it is a remould!
what Tyre do utility company have on, ie electric, environmental agency etc
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I've had the same set of insa turbo dakars on mine for the last 3 and a half years, not sure on mileage but it must be between 25-30k with a fair few off road days and plenty of laning and they are now starting to show their age. down to about 7 or 8 mm but still plenty of grip. Not sure what bfg's are like as I've never had them but I rate these dakars as value for money.
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
why do the SEB use the Big Friendly Giant? can he reach the pylons easier? :confused:
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havn't got a clue but when they were over the road from our house choppin down tree's I could help but notice a nicely kitted out 110 fender and a ford ranger with bfg's and winches on em wrapped in southern electric's signage :eek:
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
why do the SEB use the Big Friendly Giant? can he reach the pylons easier? :confused:
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They are just a bit cheaper than cooper, so with the amount of tyres they go through would be budget thing, improve there bottom line/profit. I imagine they have a high % of punctures on tread and side walls
 
barmatt said:
I've had the same set of insa turbo dakars on mine for the last 3 and a half years, not sure on mileage but it must be between 25-30k with a fair few off road days and plenty of laning and they are now starting to show their age. down to about 7 or 8 mm but still plenty of grip. Not sure what bfg's are like as I've never had them but I rate these dakars as value for money.
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yeh horses for courses, i know you can save a lot of wonga on a set of tyres, we have a mate who put cheap tyres on his telehandler, we put goodyears on ours at the same time, his 2 front lasted no time at all, then he caught a gate hinge and blew 1 back en off, as for ours 6 years on goodyears and 70% left, still got 4 as well, at £400 per tyre you think twice about going through tight gaps!!!
but machine is ready to be upgraded, so would we of got away with the cheaper tyre???? who knows!!!
 
I have a friend who runs BFG AT and says they are good all rounder. I have called him to come for a drive round the fields later this week. Any one been in the snow with BFG muds.
Many thanks for the prompt responses. The lady will only do 10k per year i guess on / off road
 
cold comfort farm said:
I have a friend who runs BFG AT and says they are good all rounder. I have called him to come for a drive round the fields later this week. Any one been in the snow with BFG muds.
Many thanks for the prompt responses. The lady will only do 10k per year i guess on / off road
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had the new MT's for over two and a half years now, all around i would take them over the AT's tbh they are really good on and off road wet , snow and dry . they are better than the general grabber road tyres i had before even in the rain on tarmac
 
and after that length of time and a good few miles and a lot of towing heavy loads there is still over 50% of tread left ;)
 
In 1997 Cooper purchased Avon Tyres Ltd, based in Melksham, England.
The company's largest growth acquisition occurred in 1999 when it bought The Standard Products Company, which increased the total workforce by 10,000 employees.
In 2003 Cooper purchased Mickey Thompson Performance Tires & Wheels.
In December 2003 Cooper agreed to a joint venture with Kenda Rubber Industrial Company, to construct a tire-manufacturing plant near Shanghai.
In January 2005 Cooper agreed to purchase 11% of the Kumho Tires Company, and also announced the formation of a new commercial division encompassing both Oliver Rubber Company and commercial tires.
In October 2005 Cooper announced an agreement to obtain 51% ownership in China’s third largest tire manufacturer, Cooper Chengshan (Shandong) Passenger Tire Company Ltd., and Cooper Chengshan (Shandong) Truck Tire Company Ltd., to produce truck and passenger car tires for mainland Chinese and export markets.[4] Two of the businesses of the joint venture are Cooper Chengshan Passenger Tire, and Cooper Chengshan Tire.[5] In 2007 Cooper set up a manufacturing venture in eastern China with Kenda Rubber Industrial Company, a company based in the Republic of China on Taiwan. Cooper generates 25% of its global sales in the People's Republic of China.[4] In 2007 Cooper sold its Oliver Rubber Company subsidiary, which produced tread rubber and retreading equipment, to Michelin for $69 million.[6][7]
At the end of 2011. Cooper bought Serbian tire company Trayal from Kruševac. Cooper took over a unit of Trayal Korporacija AD from Bulgarian company Brikel EAD for $13 million and invest as much as $50 million.
Cooper is the second largest United States-based tire company, after Goodyear.[8]


Other brands
In addition to Avon, Cooper Tire manufactures tires under the associated brand names Dean, Mastercraft and Starfire


http://us.coopertire.com/Customer-Care/Warranty-Information.aspx
 
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I rate my BFG AT's very highly, i don't go a great deal of mileage now (landy is always broken) but when i first fitted them i was doing 8k a year and they have done everything i have asked of them. P&P, little bit of green laning, snow, getting out of a farmers field when its been churned up after a camping weekend, good in the wet and about 5 mpg better then the remould muds i had on it before.
 
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