Excavator track options

KW Land Works · Sep 15, 2014

Thanks Greens.

I just sent Rio an email. Turns out there are several manufacturers via a google search.

Whitnel · Sep 15, 2014

This is what we run on ours. They seem to hold up pretty good. Our guys are hard in them, we have a lot if rock here so it's on everything from dirt to pavement / concrete and shot rock. Don't know the brand though.

KW Land Works · Sep 16, 2014

Thanks Whitnel. How do you like the 308?

Whitnel · Sep 16, 2014

The crews like it. It is pretty old so its a not as fast and as powerful as it once was but it gets the job done. The 308 and 303 we have stay busy, there is always a small spot we need to get into. We are trying to talk the bosses into getting a 305 to fill that size gap and get an extra machine.

KW Land Works · Sep 16, 2014

Got a quote back from Superior Tire & Rubber Corp.

Email went as follows:

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"Knowing that your machine will be in a wood, marshy environment, the only track pad that is going to withstand this is the polyurethane mold on pads. We can do this one of two ways – if you can afford the down time on your machine (say this winter) you can send me your steel shoes and we can mold the poly directly to your steel shoes. OR, we can buy new steel shoes and mold polyurethane to them.

Here are what the costs would be:

24” Poly Mold on to your steel shoes: $128.00
24” Poly Mold on to new steel shoes: $205.00

Lead time would be 4-5 weeks lead time after we received the steel shoes.

I know this may seem like a lot of money – but trust me the other options of pads just will not withstand working in the woods. I look forward to speaking with you about any other questions you may have."
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Quick count gave me 84 shoes on the excavator. That times 128 is just shy of 11k$. Not a trivial purchase.