Wow, I wasn't expecting to come back and find my question had come out to 3 pages!
So, some context for others - I'm not really dealing with 'deep snow' where there's any risk of beaching the tractor... really, no more than a few inches at a time other than some drifts I need to deal with more carefully. However, I'm just not getting much grip in some areas.
This afternoon (after starting this thread), I pushed some snow out of my driveway with the loader, and the two front tires dropped 1" down into the ditch on the other when I pushed it across - not really 'into the ditch', but to flat ground 1" below the road surface. I could not get enough traction to back up. Even using the bucket to life the front tires and increase the rear weight. I eventually had to park my van at the end of the driveway and use a comealong to winch my tractor back up that 1" drop...
I'd discovered new small uphill portions of the driveway I had previously assumed to be flat simply because the tractor won't go up them unless I have intertia or the blower raised.
I'm thinking chains make sense. I found some sized for 12.4x28s locally. My tractor has 13.6x28 tires on it currently. Would they work with the tire 1.2" wider than the chains were designed for?
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