Rubber track wear

curtisfarmer · Jul 7, 2007

On thing to avoid is turning on tar where there is even a bit of crushed stone present on the surface as it tends to slash the tracks. If the tar is warm, and you turn, you smudge the tar.

groundhawg · Jul 7, 2007

Have you considered that you can pick up a good low-boy bumper pull for less than half the cost of 1 replacement track? I would avoid long travel distances w/ a tracked machine unless money is no object. Just my opinion.

White Shark · Jul 8, 2007

jmfox said:
The ASV tracks do not have the steel wire, and I will be careful not to pivot. BTW, how do you like the 4-in-1 bucket?

jmf

I can't live without the 4 in 1. That thing is the greatest. If I could only own 1 implement, it would be the 4 in 1 combo bucket.

I also have a Virnig rock bucket (sifts out rocks and dirt <3"), a dirt bucket (standard bucket with teeth), and the 4 in 1 with a straight cutting bar. I also have a set of pallet forks.

The 4 in 1 gets used 99% of the time. I can cut, grab, doze, and scoop with it. It will grab concrete slab pieces that are not completely broken up, move small boulders, grab logs up to about 10" diameter, grab branches and cut brush piles, and I've even used it for trash haul outs.

It's cool to crush washing machines and dishwashers with the 4 in 1 (the housewives always love to see the old stuff go. It means they are getting new appliances.

). I have had a couple of friends who needed to clear out rental properties, including broken appliances, mountains of torn out carpeting, torn out kitchen cabinets, furniture, etc. I tell them to make a huge pile in the drive way and we crush it and dump it into the dump trailer for haul out. They are happy to pay $300 to have the problem go away and it's a local 2 hour deal on the weekends. No biggie, and a few extra bucks. If I don't do it, the tractor sits around unused anyway, so it's a nice little piece of cake type of job on the side. I can't count how many of these tear outs I've done. The 4 in 1 also works great on large dog house tear downs. I had one of those recently on a job where we were doing some custom excavation and concrete work...

I can also open the 4 in 1, and pull the materials up and onto the scoop, then close it up and pick up most all of the material without pushing it all over the site. In other words, there is very little shovel work left for smooth grade and clean up jobs.

Just make sure your buckets are the same width or wider than your track width to protect the track when cutting alongside walls and rough edge cut ins.

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