mdnelson86
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i'm getting a little frustrated with my jlg 50ht lift getting around the farm. I'm usually on gravel but would like to get off into some grass sometimes and it just doesn't do well at all when it comes to a loose surface. if I hit a patch of loose gravel or a soft spot in the grass that wheel just starts spinning. I've figured out that I have better luck with different switch settings of motor high/low, drive high/low and so forth and I can also extend the boom out to put more leverage on drive tires but it's still not very good. this being my first manlift i've ever used I can now see that my next one will be a 4x4 unit. my question is if there is anything I can do to help out the traction? would different tires help much? the current tires aren't bad but they don't have the biggest lugs by any means. I would really like it if I could somehow come up with a way to plumb the drive independently so if one broke loose all the oil flow from the other wouldn't go to the spinning tire but keep the other one turning, very much like a differential lock would act.