It's true. I like firestone tires and they pull the best where the soil is fairly loose. But where I'm at where it's hard clay and usually muddy they just fill up and you end up with slicks. When it's dry they will sit on top and leave rubber marks on the dirt. Goodyears are worse, at least the older ones. The older firestone field and roads were much better that the 23° radials. I see they are now making a version with narrower and wider spaced tread that might work. The old style armstrong/titans pulled real well too in the hard ground. The ones like yours with the fat bars in the middle would be mostly useless for hard pulling like plowing sod in our ground. However there is a price to pay, as said the thin, wider spacing of the bars means they wear faster on the road. If you get just a few miles from where I live and the 23° firestones pull the best. I don't think the European tire thing is as much about traction as it is about clean out. I heard somewhere that over there there is a law that says tractor tires have to be clean within so many feet of leaving a field to keep the roads clean, so the tires are designed to clean out fast.
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