Some one needs to do this in orange

[Heywood Jannockitov]

Does my Kubota dealer sell that kit??

It's called the "Screwbota"

OK, I'm done now.

 

[slowzuki]

The Russians and English had those things too. The english model was for traversing mud flats near the channel and the russian one was used in swamps.

If I recall right the drums are expensive, wear quickly on anything but snow and were quickly overtaken by tracked design such as JA Bombardiers.

 

[PUSHINDIRT]

That was great! Thanks for sharing the link! My 5 year old wants to know if it is a "hybrid"? Poor Horse!!

 

[Bob_Young]

Don't think that would work well for sidehill use. Flat land or straight up and down hills would be fine. Looked like it slid into the fence bordering a shallow grade at one point and damaged the fence.

Maybe keel-like runners that could be lowered on hillsides would help.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Don't think that would work well for sidehill use. Flat land or straight up and down hills would be fine. Looked like it slid into the fence bordering a shallow grade at one point and damaged the fence.

Maybe keel-like runners that could be lowered on hillsides would help.

OK Bob. Are you accepting the challenge to build one? You can promote it as the one with Bob Young Improvements or how yours can do up, down and across hillsides. I think you will have enthusiastic support and maybe a couple of dollars support from this forums members. I'm in for $5. You know we have tracks now that have rubber so strong that they last a long time so my contribution is use rubber for the "whatever their called" splines? Come on Bob, do it!

 

[Volfandt]

Actually, the mechanics of it are ingenious. I can see it being refined a bit and made more durable.
Looks like the rear/differential is the major component to it. Off hand it almost looks like the entire rear was swapped with his modified independant drive unit. I'm highly impressed with the use of the OEM steering linkage to control the independant drives. The video indicated that both the tractor and car can be "easily" readapted to wheeled operation, so if the rear drive unit is a complete replacement it must also have "normal" wheeled drive capability too.

Unfortunately it only has a very limited market and that was probably it's ultimate downfall. I can see it being successful in heavy snow areas as well as bogs.

It would be neat if more info could be found on it and whether there are any working models of them still around somewhere......

 

[RobS]

I have a book at home on the history of tractors, maybe only Ford tractors. There is a photo of one of these in there, so at least one survived. Certainly is ingenious. I can see it with polyethylene drums and rubber ribs. Might even float and travel on water?

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

My neice lives in Anchorage, Ak , not Anchorage, Ky, and she responded immediately that she wants one after viewing the video.

 

[powergod]

pretty cool would be fun to pull sleds behind for the kids

 

[Graydon]

I can see doing a small one person version with poly drums and a snowmobile engine. That has the potential to be much lighter than a typical snowmobile which would provide stunning performance.