Tracks on Tractors (and other vehicles)

[catvet]

Was surfing and came upon Mattracks who make tracks for all sorts of vehicles including tractors. Was wondering if anyone had used these on a tractor. Looks like I could get my kubota up into the woods in the snow with some of these babies on.

MATTRACKS rubber track conversion systems - all-terrain rubber tracks for 4X4 vehicles.

 

[johnk]

Those are awsome and I bet the price is awesome also. They make those for ATV's and I think they are in the area of $2500 for a small ATV. Have any prices??

 

[catvet]

Afraid I don't have prices. I also figure they are big bucks. I'm not seriously in the market so didn't have a reason to bother the manufacturer.

 

[rdbrumfield]

Catvet, I was having some problems with tire flats due to mowing hawthorn. What i did was create a set of tracks with channel iron. I used 8 in by 16 in the rears and 6 in by 12 in the front. By lying the pieces on the floor with the "C" facing down and welding 3 links of chain, one to each channel and one in the middle to piviot, I made them about 6 in shy of the circumference of the tire. by driving up on them by tying a rope to the end one and having it curl on the tire as I drove onto them, I just deflate the tire, bolt the ends together, having two holes in both ends, and reinflating the tire. I did weld on 6 pieces, inside and out, that were 3/8x31/2x6 to keep the sides centered. I can tell you from this setup, I didn't get anymore flats, and I was able to go where ever I pointed the frontend. The difference in floatation was greatly improved, as was the traction. And I might have had 200 bucks in the whole system with the exception of an afternoon of welding.
I did this for a 5300 50hp JD. I am sure it could be scaled to work for any tractor out there. It also adds a few inches of ground clearance.

 

[dfkrug]

Yeah, those tracks look amazing. Here is a JD CUT from a recent AG
show.

RDB:
How about some pix of your creation?

 

[Egon]

There was a time you could get rear tracks with a bogie wheel for for the 8n's.

 

[schmism]

they work well for vehicals were the gearing is the same on all 4 corners.

but with tractors and ther MFWDA or whatever the h3ll they call it, the front wheels spin faster because they are smaller.

so you'd have to regear the front ends, or supply 2 diffrent sized tracks as they did for the JD to account for the diffrent sized tires.

as for the madtrax yes they have been used in the 4x4 truck world for some time.

my personal favorit pic (of some) for various reasons.
1) its a toyota
2) its on madtrax
3) he has a pet reindeer and its in the back of his toyota

 

[matthew3120]

I just called mattrack about a price on my JD 3120 and it was around $24000.00 for the whole setup.I think I am going to order a set this year sometime they are very impressive.

matthew3120

 

[teg]

PLEASE, tell me you have an extra "0" in there....

 

[Danno1]

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I seem to remember seeing them a few years back for ~1600 or so each. So that would be $6400 for the vehicle.

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