Tracks on a UTV

[Zebrafive]

What's the part in the vise? Drive wheel? Is the shaft ruined?

 

[ArlyA]

What's the part in the vise? Drive wheel? Is the shaft ruined?

Yes, That shaft was tore up and replaced.

 

[ruffdog]

I think I would use my needle greaser and inject the bearings with marine grease.....just me thinking.

 

[JamesHW]

Watching this guy bombing around the woods on a BCS fitted with tracks pulling a sled makes me want to outfit my walk behind. Maybe we could groom some of our two miles of trails for cross country skiing

 

[ArlyA]

Watching this guy bombing around the woods on a BCS fitted with tracks pulling a sled makes me want to outfit my walk behind. Maybe we could groom some of our two miles of trails for cross country skiing

$10 says that takes so much upper body strength to operate, after 2 miles, you'll not ski again.

 

[Rustyiron]

Arly not everyone gets your snows. Don't you think that places where a dusting to a foot are the norm, that grooming these snows as they come would result in success for him at a very reasonable budget?

 

[ArlyA]

We know people who have got similar machines like seen below, to do here phat bike trails. They say steerage fatigue is the issue. Great on ice, bad in woods.

 

[JamesHW]

The walk behinds can be a bear or a pussycat depending on the circumstances. Riding along on established trails with gradual turns shouldn’t present too much of an issue. Wrestling my 853 over uneven ground brush hogging is a workout, not recommended if you don’t have the upper body strength. But on flat ground I can walk alongside and gently correct the steering with one hand and if I defeat the deadman safety switch the 853 will continue along on its own. Here is a video of the same guy pulling a flat sled showing him struggling some in the woods over uneven ground that I can relate to:

Here he is using his 853 with rubber tracks to pull a moldboard plow:

Operating a snow blower:

Here is another of him demonstrating his setup on a yard:

Here Joel at Earthtools.com showing the installation of tracks (cost about $1,500) on a walk behind:

 

[Rustyiron]

I can relate, I've spent countless hours between the handles of a walk behind Gravley as a kid.

 

[Industrial Toys]

That's what I thought of. Had a Gravely PRO 12 with steering sulky. Given uneven terrain, those three handles would come down as much as two feet or so, in a fraction of a second and you better not have any part of your body in the way.