Hello. I have a 99 Cherokee with an OME 2 1/2 lift and slip yoke. Cooper mud and hiway tires. I use my jeep for hunting. I had a scary experience this weekend while side hilling on a dry grassy hill. I lost traction and control, sliding about 30 yards sideways down the hill while trying to get the nose pointed the same way avoiding a rollover. My question to you is what you have found tire wise that would have given me better traction and control. Really don't want to do this again. My first post. Gary

 

Bf Goodrich all terrain... Good money for good tire

 

Welcome Gary... This is a first for me... I am in the desert and never considered this might be a problem. But we don't have grass. lol

Maybe someone can jump in and help with this who knows what grass is...

 

Welcome to CF.

Thing is the ground may be dry but when you compress live grass it can get slick. Never heard of a mud/highway tire but not knowing how much slope the hill had and how tall and thick the grass was I'm not sure any tire would make a difference. As mentioned if any could the BFG or one comparable to it would be my first choice. Any other vehicles with you or any others drove it before?

 

What tires exactly did you have?

also, either the hill was really steep or it wasn't dry. Otherwise I can't really see how you went sliding. And like said before, if either of these were the case, I'm not sure there is anything that could help you.

 

Thank you... I was thinking it might be that green stuff I see on golf courses in the movies but I wasn't sure...

 

LOL At least you don't have to mow desert.

 

Mow??? What's that? lol That is one reason I like the desert... No ticks and chiggers... lol

 

I use to complain about the bugs around here until I went on a spring bear hunt way up north in eastern Canada. Unreal.

 

I went hunting in Western Canada and Alaska a few times... Bot Flies...

 

First we had the Black flies and then the mosquitoes. Black flies did have some class. Wouldn't land in your food while you ate.

 

Maybe not food, but they will try to enter every human orifice they can! But the Mosquitoes up there were no worse than they were in Central America. Ever been to CA? lol

 

 

Guilty... Conversation in waiting for the OP to chime back in and keep the thread alive... You are right...better we let it just go dead...

 

Done it before, and even more frightening when on a tractor with a bush hog behind you. Usually happens when you have older tires that are glazed hard rubber.

Only thing I can think of would be newer tires with sharp edges on the tread and rubber that is still soft and tacky. The Wrangler Radials I have on my XJ currently are about 4 years old and I have noticed they don't grip as well as they used to even though they have most of the tread left, but it is no longer a dull sticky rubber it is more of a hard shiny rubber.