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I have a 1000-5 on order, to be here someday. I'd like to swap out tires right away, mainly to have all 4 the same size, but also for a better trail tread pattern. I'm not sure if the Rip Saw would be the best, but I love the pattern and tread depth. The problem I see is that the 28x10R14 version has a load rating of 535 lbs. Total weight rating for the 4 would be 2,140 lbs, and take out the 1,700 lb machine weight and you are left with a 440lb load capacity. Just the weight of the 5 people in my family that would ride in it is well more than that. Add that to uneven balance point, and hills etc, and it seems that it is just too light of a tire for the 1000-5.
What doesn't make sense is that it is an 8 ply tire with many people saying how heavy duty of a tire it is. That it is made for UTVs. That it has a tough hide, great for rocks. But it has a low load rating. It is also rated at 8psi. Is that why it's load rating is lower? My experience is all Automotive and mostly HD Trucks, where load rating is very important and can cause big problems. Also increasing the pressure increases the load capacity greatly. So could I get the sedonas and run 15psi in them?
Otherwise I'm looking at getting the Carlisle Versa Trail which shows 675 lbs per tire, or 140 lbs more than the sedona each. Plenty strong enough. Good tread pattern, but only 3/4 inch deep. Which would probably work very well for us. We do mostly trail riding, in a couple areas. A couple main trails are mostly rocky, gravely, hilly, with some light sand and dirt. But we do go on other trails that are just hunting trails with fewer hills, smoother rocks, and dirt. If it is wet, then it is muddy, but not usually deep mud. Shallow mud with water. There are places that have deep mud, but that has never been all that appealing to me, so we avoid those areas. I think just about any tire will do well in the fields around our house, but we would like to take the roads (paved and gravel) to get to some close trails, which we have never done before with the ATVs, and I don't want the tires to wear faster than the factory ones for sure. Sometime in the last few years they opened the National forest behind us to ATVs. The national forest literally begins less than a mile behind our property, but we'd need to take roads a few miles around to get there.
I doubt we'd need the extra traction of the Sedonas, and not sure it would be worth it if they wear much faster. But they look like a really nice tire for the money and tough enough to withstand the sharper rocks. We have two ATVs that we used to ride until our family grew with a third kid, so we haven't been out in the last two years, hence the SxS order. We have had some tire damage on the factory tires. Plus I'm not happy with the amount of wear. One has 1100 miles and the other has 600 miles. I also don't want to have to put it in 4wd every time we climb a rocky hill because it is shooting rocks out the back at the next person.
Long story short, I would love to have the extra traction of the Sedona Rip Saws with the deeper more aggressive tread, but am worried about the weight and if they would wear fast. Does anyone have them and can let me know how they do with the 1000? How are they wearing?
What doesn't make sense is that it is an 8 ply tire with many people saying how heavy duty of a tire it is. That it is made for UTVs. That it has a tough hide, great for rocks. But it has a low load rating. It is also rated at 8psi. Is that why it's load rating is lower? My experience is all Automotive and mostly HD Trucks, where load rating is very important and can cause big problems. Also increasing the pressure increases the load capacity greatly. So could I get the sedonas and run 15psi in them?
Otherwise I'm looking at getting the Carlisle Versa Trail which shows 675 lbs per tire, or 140 lbs more than the sedona each. Plenty strong enough. Good tread pattern, but only 3/4 inch deep. Which would probably work very well for us. We do mostly trail riding, in a couple areas. A couple main trails are mostly rocky, gravely, hilly, with some light sand and dirt. But we do go on other trails that are just hunting trails with fewer hills, smoother rocks, and dirt. If it is wet, then it is muddy, but not usually deep mud. Shallow mud with water. There are places that have deep mud, but that has never been all that appealing to me, so we avoid those areas. I think just about any tire will do well in the fields around our house, but we would like to take the roads (paved and gravel) to get to some close trails, which we have never done before with the ATVs, and I don't want the tires to wear faster than the factory ones for sure. Sometime in the last few years they opened the National forest behind us to ATVs. The national forest literally begins less than a mile behind our property, but we'd need to take roads a few miles around to get there.
I doubt we'd need the extra traction of the Sedonas, and not sure it would be worth it if they wear much faster. But they look like a really nice tire for the money and tough enough to withstand the sharper rocks. We have two ATVs that we used to ride until our family grew with a third kid, so we haven't been out in the last two years, hence the SxS order. We have had some tire damage on the factory tires. Plus I'm not happy with the amount of wear. One has 1100 miles and the other has 600 miles. I also don't want to have to put it in 4wd every time we climb a rocky hill because it is shooting rocks out the back at the next person.
Long story short, I would love to have the extra traction of the Sedona Rip Saws with the deeper more aggressive tread, but am worried about the weight and if they would wear fast. Does anyone have them and can let me know how they do with the 1000? How are they wearing?
