Cutting Boggers

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Just got a set of 38.5x15x15 boggers. I think i'm going to cut out the smaller lugs to leave more spacious, larger lugs. I plan on hitting mud and rocks.

Attached is an image i found of how i'm thinking about cutting them. The tire on the left has been started.

Any ideas, reviews, suggestions, etc?
 

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Back home in Washington alot of mud trucks ran Boggers cut like that. They all called them race cut Boggers. If it is going to see any type of pavement I wouldn't suggest it. Boggers wear fast on pavement and with them cut you will wear them out in no time at all. The only downside to cutting them like that for rocks is that you leave alot of open area where the small lugs used to be and it will be alot easier to puncture the tire with no lug there to protect the carcass. My boggers are grooved and I love them. With some small grooves through the lugs it really helps the tire flex and form to the rocks. Here's a pic of mine. http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff7/marvilusone1970/grooved5.jpg If I were you I would just groove them. Just my opinion.
 
thanks for the input! how long have you ran the boggers? my jeep is now off-road only.

by the way i'll probably chop the smaller ones down to about 1/4 tread so i dont have to worry about punctures.
 
I've only had this set for about a month but I've had numerous other sets over the years. I love Boggers. As far as I'm concerned they're the best tire out there as long as you stay off pavement.
 
travis, find a pic of the 54" boggers, they are grooved from the factory... have heard they preform alot better becasue of it... sorta the way that ^^^^ has his grooved across the lugs to allow the tire to flex side to side...

chips old boggers were cut like your pics in the rear IIRC
 
cutting the boggers is not gonna help at all on the rocks. probally gonna hurt you actually .

nodoubt it will help you in the mud
 
how long did all the siping take on those boggers? i am thinking about going ahead with that for my "new" set but i have to fork out the $$$ for a nice groover first....
 
Yep, my 39.5's were cut like that in the rear. Run great in the mud, but for trails around here where everything isn't up and down or flat, and you have side hill slopes, they suck.
Cutting them makes the wear factor increase a bunch. I would say my fronts are now at 75% and the rears are <50%.
The edges are rounded a lot more on the cut ones too.
For a mud run competition thing, I would cut them. For trail riding, My vote would be to not cut out the small lugs.
 
Erik said:
how long did all the siping take on those boggers? i am thinking about going ahead with that for my "new" set but i have to fork out the $$$ for a nice groover first....
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Just borrow a chainsaw
 
Jeff B said:
Just borrow a chainsaw
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Anybody tried this? I mean it seems viable as long as the teeth don't clog up. Sure, save the fine work for a groover, but a chainsaw would be great for removing massive amounts of material.
 
How about a grinding disc that looks like a cheese grader:lol:

I think it work if you could hold it
 
go to harbor freight.

There is an attachment that goes on an angle grinder that is a miniature chainsaw disc. It works perfectly for grooving bigger tires that you want to take alot of tread out of.

Its made by a company called King Arthur Tools.
 
groovers arent really expensive online, but dont cut very much out... i thikn you could make one whatever since you wanted using Ni-Cad wire and a DC power source...

im with chip to not cut out the smal lugs... as said, if naything, id cut across the lugs to make the tire form to the grounds shape better...
 
I run 37's off road only and cut mine (all little lugs off) from the get go, I wheel east coast and as far as I'm concerned whoever said it won't make them any better never ran a cut bogger. Anyhow I used a sawzall and three sets of leather gloves. Cut three lugs and switch gloves as they will be steaming after the third lug sawzall gets kinda hot too. Oh and forget spraying the blade w/ WD it doesn't help at all.
 
Greatlakeoffroad said:
I wheel east coast and as far as I'm concerned whoever said it won't make them any better never ran a cut bogger.
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Chip, I never knew...

Oh I forgot you are a West Coast Prima Dona :lol::lol::lol::lol::shaking:
 
Don't cut boggers, run them, thats a waste of a tire. If you really hate them send them to me. Less tread = less traction. Duh. That's why I run Michigan LTX MS Latitude Xtreme Mud/Snow
 
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