hayden
Veteran Member
I have a mini excavator with rubber tracks, and am looking for ways to improve traction. I have a lot of steep terrain and when there are rocks or ledge to go over, and it's at all wet, the rubber tracks just slip and slide. I am contemplating switching to steel tracks, but am not convinced they will really do any better on ledge. I have experience ice skating on steel tracks once when I got a dozer sideways to a slope and the machine took off down the hill. Fortunately I got it spun around before I took out a building that was in my slide path. I got rubber tracks in the first place because I need to track over sections of public dirt/gravel roads, and don't want to chew them up. Plus I can work around the house making less mess of things which helps with marital harmony. What about studding tracks? Is that possible, and can you add studs to any track or do they need to be designed specifically to accept studs?