Rugged trail are too light duty. I punched a hole in one, driving over only a sharp stick. It wasnt even the weight of a real truck, just one of those beta-male tacomas.
I just finished two years on the falken wildpeak at3w's. Theyre a decent tire. Good puncture resistance. Good load range E performance. Overloaded beyond their 80 psi rating, carcass stays cool at 55 mph. Any faster, too much heat in the tire carcass.
A cord of green birch goes 4,700 lbs. I hand-split and sell cords of birch in winter. Tires handle the load well @ 80 psi. They get real noisey as they wear, but are quiet new. Heavy loads,the noises settle down.
Off road, anything slight camber on wet leaves or wet early season snow, i slide down the camber. I t-boned a fkn birch tree on a 10 degree slope. I just chain-up with v-bar chains ever since.
Even medium loads, like whole, dead meat cow wont settle down the aweful road noise! Will get a third year out of them, then look for something else.
