ASV MAX-Series™ RT-135 Forestry Compact Track Loader???

[barracane]

ASV MAX-Series™ RT-135 Forestry Compact Track Loader

RT-135 Forestry - ASV

The comfortable & easy to operate MAX-Series RT-135 Forestry compact track loader make impossible forestry jobs seems ordinary.

www.asvi.com

Guys, sorry if I disturb, you know this brand and these machines, they look like unstoppable war machines, never seen in Italy, maybe it's a new manufacturer-? thanks Hasta la vista amigos

 

[Bri963]

Been on the go years. Recently produced a few of these YouTube videos that try to show the opposition in a bad light, especially the Slipping on Slopes one. What they don’t tell you is how expensive the undercarriage is when it wears out.

 

[barracane]

thanks for the clarification, but this manufacturer ASV who would perhaps fterex, never heard and never seen around, perhaps not imported into Italy, however bestial the speed and agility and power of this machine a real unstoppable lightning bolt of war I remained thrilled and startled.

 

[Bri963]

I think Terex marketed ASV as Terex in the UK and Australia, but that agreement is finished now. Can’t get ASV in the UK any more. I enquired last year. Don’t be fooled by the films, Cat used the same undercarriage on their MTL range. I had the misfortune of trying to keep it running. The entire undercarriage was shot at under 1000 hrs and it cost the equivalent of €13,000 to replace, ten years ago. Higher undercarriage costs/hour than some big bulldozers. I can’t believe the same system lasts better on their own machines.

 

[doobin]

I think Terex marketed ASV as Terex in the UK and Australia, but that agreement is finished now. Can’t get ASV in the UK any more. I enquired last year. Don’t be fooled by the films, Cat used the same undercarriage on their MTL range. I had the misfortune of trying to keep it running. The entire undercarriage was shot at under 1000 hrs and it cost the equivalent of €13,000 to replace, ten years ago. Higher undercarriage costs/hour than some big bulldozers. I can’t believe the same system lasts better on their own machines.

What so special about it compared to normal running gear?

 

[Bri963]

The ASV system uses rubber/Kevlar composite tracks with no steel inserts. The idlers and rollers are plastic with bonded tyres either hard rubber or kevlar, and rather than sprockets driving on steel drive cleats, there are moulded lugs on the inside of the tracks. Instead of a sprocket, drive is through what looks like a hamster wheel, drive is via horizontal rollers. The lugs break off the tracks in rough conditions, the drive wheels fail, idlers and rollers break up. I’d say in very light conditions, or mowing they’d last better, but nowhere near as good as a normal CTL with less aggressive tracks. Anyway, since Terex stopped painting ASV’s white for the UK you can’t buy one of their machines new here. ASV produce a sub-2 tonne machine which I can imagine would be handy. Nobody else produces a CTL anywhere that small since Bobcat discontinued the T110.

The other thing gets me is their marketing videos. The operators manage to make the opposition look bad, but I know from experience Cat CTL’s and probably all of the rest perform far better on slopes than the ASV marketing shows them doing. In the Film of the machines on side-slopes you can see the op kicking some of the machines round deliberately to make them slide Sideways.

 

[barracane]

thanks for the clarifying information, appearances can be deceiving, I was about to fall into the trap. thanks again for the useful information.
hasta la vista amigos