[myunimog]

I'm not sure if these are factory made or made up from nuts and bolts but in the right conditions they would be pretty cool.

I searched for skidder studs but didn't come up with anything.

I did find this however.

and

There is a video of the guy using these studded tires but I can't find it.

 

[tkv000]

I have Trygg's for mine

 

[krisinak]

There is no feeling quite like a SBU moving sideways on ice.

 

[tmodler]

Don't all male UNIMOG owners fancy themselves to be Big Tire Studs?

Just saying...

C.

 

[myunimog]

Don't all male UNIMOG owners fancy themselves to be Big Tire Studs?

Just saying...

C.

LOL. Yeah maybe but we also have to assure ourselves that when others who don't own big trucks think we all must be compensating for inadequacies they are full of it.

If they really believe that then by that thinking the inverse is also true and no one who is packing never strives for anything in life except what comes the easiest and is handed to them on a platter and all drive sub compacts. Kind of doubt both.

Here's that video of the guy trying to climb up a ledge with all 4 tires studded out like the above. And one with them on the rear only. They sure look like something that would be on a skidder.

 

[Snow mogg]

I dont see how studes would privide any benafit for that kind of hillclimbing with loose rocks and bolders But the studds are pretty bad ass though. I just put the same tires on my Jeep, I really am liking them alot thinking about swaping out the XM for somthing similar

 

[techMOGogy]

2nd video - right at end (6:58) they have some night shots - you can see the guy pulling his rig and the rear tires with the studs throw off some good sparks - I would say a bit iffy in the middle of dry woods but that is just me.

 

[myunimog]

The studs are obviously not good everywhere. A place where there is lots of slab rock, probably not. But that guy does make it up that ledge and it looks like the studs grabbed on to the edge pretty well; he may have does just as well with all rubber. The other guy going up the loam slope looks to benefit quite a lot from his rear tire spikes and yes at night you can see the sparks. If he could just get his brakes working he would be golden I've heard that spiky chains work well in rocks too. These studs are going to be a lot lighter than chains and for this style of rig and wheeling I don't think chains would work. Too much HP and wheel spin.

I'd say, without trying them, the studded tires would work well in woods terrain with lots of soil and mud and logs, more Midwestern, Southeastern 4 wheeling, which is where it looks like lots of these high horse power buggies play, and not so much for west of the Rockies wheeling.

My experience with spiked (sheetmetal screws through the tires) mountain bike tires offered more traction on hard frozen ground and ice than no spikes on dry ground in the summer.

If they aren't something you can buy then it looks like you could construct them from stainless steel hardware with perhaps capped lug-nuts.

 

[ALASKAT]

Oh my hands, I studded my bike tires with stainless rivets twenty years ago and I should have carpal tunnel now, that was tedious. In the video I saw the photographer getting pelted by flung debris on the hill climb and if one of those studs ever come out at the right moment that could be pretty bad! Tires like that could tear a rig to pieces if it was in a fender well and bottomed out. No issue with open wheel buggies.:surrender:

 

[Mogasaurus]

In the video I saw the photographer getting pelted by flung debris on the hill climb and if one of those studs ever come out at the right moment that could be pretty bad!

I suspect that particular crowd might pay extra for that bit

 

[Snow mogg]

This kind of 4x4ing is kinda fun to watch, but really makes no sence I can do hillclimbs steeper than this and 3 times as long on a 250 motocross bikes. My CR500 one of the better hill climbing bikes out there only costed me $3500