Tracked Mulching Machine!!!

[Robbie Hegwood]

I'll chime in here. I am the one running an ASV with a timberax and I do dearly love my tractor. For the money and power both hyd and H.P. it is a hard package to beat. My head is pretty unique itself and has its advantages and its drawbacks. For all general mulching carbides are the safe bet.

Now onto the supertrak. For being a rubber tracked machine and still being able to use it in an conventional manner, it itself is a tough package. Has to be the highest H.P. rubber tracked machine out and can drive the heck out of a mulching head. My only issue comes in on the monitary side. For a startup guy or in Joe's case his primary tractor I believe that is probably a good route. From talking to Joe it has good grunt. His projects sound a bit more demanding than mine therefore he could use the larger cutting capacity.

I myself another tractor would be a second unit and I would choose a slightly different route. But that's just personal preference and what your individual business plan encompasses. But doing what we do you must have a rubber tracked machine in there somewhere for sensitive jobs.

I personally go by published numbers. Nothing against supertrak but all dealers will promote there tractors as the best. I know on my head I have a psi guage and it will regularly hit 3000-3100psi. I didn't even know supertrak existed when I bought my tractor, but you learn a ton by being in this business and seeing units first hand.

Now you want to talk high dollar. Look up gyrotrac. Demoed two units of there's, very capable machines but at a super premium!!!!!

Later, Robbie

 

[joemitchell]

Sorry, its 5500 psi, well at least the guage on the head showed 5500 psi when under a load. Also, your ASV man is above this.

 

[Robbie Hegwood]

Hey Joe

Do we have a new tractor on the trailer yet???? Has bobcat gone ethical any given any about your T-300???

Robbie

 

[joemitchell]

No, not yet, I have a months worth of work lined up and no tractor. Its like every job I look at is too big for the Bobcat. Tell you what, when the Supertrak arrives it is going to be run relentlessly for weeks to try to catch up.
Note to self: I hate Bobcat, their customer support is the worst

Joe

 

[Robbie Hegwood]

Nothing wrong with too much work, right??? That's one way to break it in.
I feel very blessed my dealer places customer support extremely high. That in itself is over half the battle, anybody can sell a tractor but to service them is another story. Talk soon. Robbie

 

[av8or]

Thanks for the update guys. Always nice to hear what people think who plan on being the guy using the equipment vs the salesman singing you a song. Sometimes I hear these guys say things about another machine that just isn't right. Anything else they say I want to see the proof.

 

[John Ryan]

Hey av8or,

I saw that you flew to Lufkin to demo the ASV with the Tush Hog. Did you talk with Michael Bryan? Did he give you a price on that set up? The price he gave me was with sandpaper, not vasaline.

I may have demod the same machine, across the highway back in the woods. That's where we went.

John Ryan