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Tracks, solid or with holes?

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motorhead460

10-20-2004 20:11:40




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Was wondering what the big difference between the solid grousers and the ones that have the holes in the middle of them are? I was thinking that the holes might be easier on the sprockets because they would let rocks and mud escape out away from them.Thanks,Rick




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motorhead460

10-21-2004 20:08:43




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 Re: Tracks, solid or with holes? in reply to motorhead460, 10-20-2004 20:11:40  
Thanks guy's for all the great info,very much appretiated....,Rick



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Lavoy

10-21-2004 10:14:47




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 Re: Tracks, solid or with holes? in reply to motorhead460, 10-20-2004 20:11:40  
What you are referring to is commonly called snow pads. The hole relieves the pressure of the compacted snow. Run a crawler without them in snow on a 35 degree day, and you will really find out what they are for. lavoy



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Billy NY

10-21-2004 10:12:39




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 Re: Tracks, solid or with holes? in reply to motorhead460, 10-20-2004 20:11:40  
Used to run a Fiat Allis FD-30, was a former landfill dozer, size of a D-9, had holes punched in the pads, to help deal with the garbage. Same is true for snow, it'll pack in and tighten the tracks quite a bit, Cat used to offer snow sprockets and I'd have to look on a pad selection chart, lot of different kinds, ice pads, street pads, and so on, in some of the older manuals, so they must have dealt with this early on, I'm sure all of the above has been perfected on modern equipment. I run mine in snow, the tracks adjusted with slightly less tension, careful to observe the sprocket for build up, usually when clearing, the blade reduces the buildup, as the snow is cleared away, but if you run through heavy stuff, with the blade up, it packs in soon.

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J Kirsch

10-21-2004 07:34:36




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 Re: Tracks, solid or with holes? in reply to motorhead460, 10-20-2004 20:11:40  
Those holes come in handy for hooking a chain on when you're stuck. You hook onto the track and the other end to a tree to pull yourself out. Been there --Done that. J Kirsch NY



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Slofr8

10-21-2004 05:19:53




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 Re: Tracks, solid or with holes? in reply to motorhead460, 10-20-2004 20:11:40  
I used to run a feller buncher. It's a machine that cuts trees and bunches them in the woods so a grapple skidder can yard them out. They have come a long way but back in the mid '80's the one I was running was basically just an excavator with a saw head on it. Did a decent job all year until it warmed up a little and the snow (Northern Maine) would start to pack. It would get in-between the sprocket and chain and pack like ice. BANG!!! BANG!!! What the..??...???... We needed "snow pads" which had a hole in the middle. The owner of the machine didn't want to replace all the pads so what we did was gouge out each side of the sprockets in each valley with a torch so the snow would get pushed out. Cheap fix but it worked.
Dan.

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teamjunkyard

10-20-2004 21:50:54




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 Re: Tracks, solid or with holes? in reply to motorhead460, 10-20-2004 20:11:40  
lets frozen mud through,helps keep track on



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