tracks

[rdbrumfield]

tracks for tractornut

 

[rdbrumfield]

pic 2

 

[chim]

Clever idea, but shouldn't one leg of each channel be cut off? They look like the would pick up (and try to crunch) dirt and stones as they were straightening out upon contacting the ground. Awful lot of stress on the assembly.

The tabs don't look very "rubber-friendly" either.................chim

 

[rdbrumfield]

I was worried about the "tabs" at first, but after using them for a couple of weeks, there wasn't a mark on the tires from them. Probably a good idea about cutting off the one side of the channel, but when on the ground I haven't had any trouble with them as is. Rocks and such bind up in dozer tracks too but fall out when they open up again. Thank you for your interest, helps to make a better mouse trap.

 

[kyoders]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( helps to make a better mouse trap. )</font>

I can't imagine a mouse between the channels is going to cause you much trouble. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Kevin

 

[rdbrumfield]

LOL that's a good one.

 

[chim]

How/what do you use them on?...........chim

 

[markie61]

I'm just echoing CHIM.....what do you use these for? Do they tie the front and rear tires of the tractor together? If so, how do you steer - with the brakes?

I'm intrigued.....

Mark

 

[rdbrumfield]

I use them on a 5300 JD. If you notice there are two different sizes. The wide ones are for the back and the smaller ones for the front. You operate the tractor as you normally would, no different than putting chains on each tire.
I have worked on sidehills and very rough terrain to test durability and the effect on the tires with no problems except for a bad weld, an easy fix.
The reason I came up with these is that I was mowing and the tire flats were killing me. We were having to cut down the brush and put it through a bearcat 3pt chipper, the labor was going to break me. The 400 I spent on making the tracks saved me over 15000 in labor. I was able to mow with impunity, no more flats and soft areas other than bending the gras you wouldn't know I had been there.
I do a lot of what you might call extreme tractor work with my rig so it is set up for some things that most people don't consider for a tractor.
My mower is triple armored, I have a skid pan full length of the belly, and a Hydraulic winch in the loader frame which I use for more applications than I could have imagined when I put it on in the case I buried it. I also Have one for the 3pt and I can say that I can out log my 350C dozer with the tractor.
Sorry about getting off tracik with this, Just letting you know where I'm comming from with my applications.

 

[markie61]

I think I get it now - each tire has its own track (kind of like putting on snow chains)! I thought you somehow used these like the tracks on a sno-cat, bulldozer, army tank or the excavator in the picture's background. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
My bad!
Mark

 

[rdbrumfield]

exactly, next time I put them on I will take a pic, looks like something out of the "road warrior"

 

[chim]

Ahhhhh. Now I understand. I thought the tracks were somehow used to tie the front and rear tires together. Since they don't travel on the tires, that eliminates both concerns I had...................chim

 

[Anonymous Poster]

That is a great idea, sounds like it works well, do you have any pics of the tracks on the tractor, I would like to see how they fit on look on the tracktor.
Shawn

 

[rdbrumfield]

No I don't. The next time I put them on I will take some. You llive so close maybe you could stop by. I live in Montesano

 

[Anonymous Poster]

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No I don't. The next time I put them on I will take some. You llive so close maybe you could stop by. I live in Montesano </font>

Maybe the two of you could put them on real quick so the rest of us could see that picture, before that that truck goes out on the trip to test that new bumper/grill guard... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Taylortractornut]

Randall Today i had to take my old hoe down a right of way for the power company and dig a footer for them. I hung a stub and gouged a hole in my front right tire, then put a pin hle in a tube on the bakc left tire. ALl the uneasy noises i heard of the the stubs i missed and, thentires slipping on some of the terain has dictated i build some tracks for my machine.
There service truck picked up 2 holes on the way to air up my tires. Now ive gotta figure the circumfrence and diameter of my tires. and order the steel.

 

[rdbrumfield]

When you measure circumference for length of track, it wouldn't hurt to lift one side and let the air out. Then make the tracks a couple of inches short of that so when you bolt them on and reinflate they will be a tight fit.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Thanks Randall what grade chain would you recomend for the links, I ll need to go to church all weekend after my obscenityies let go on the brush stobs. THey had a road bladed out but the fella on the dozer had never been on one befroe and didnt know how to keep the blad down and just covered up the stubs. I run grader tires on my hoe so i cant afford to replace them lol. Im building another footer tomorrow so today i got the keys to the little Case 550.Theyll know ive been through there.

 

[rdbrumfield]

I used 3/8 high strength, you be the judge on what you need for your application. Putting them on grader tires, I would tend to use bigger chain. You have more to weld to.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Sure I'd like to see them in action the next time you have them on.

Shawn