Crazy idea

[doobin]

Has anyone considered knocking up some 'clamp on' grousers for rubber tracks? I'm thinking to increase the flotation on the E27 as and when, as we are getting a lot of wet ground work. Steel tracks are not a route I really want to go down, and options for the E27 limited and expensive.

I'm sure I remember back on the old forum someone had made something out of timber that clamped onto rubber tracks and worked surprisingly well. Steel is also an option.

What do we reckon?

 

[CPS]

Seen a firm that makes them for skid steers in the states pop up on Facebook, pretty sure I followed them... hopefully they pop up soon

 

[Canal Navvy]

I wonder if track chains would work, seem to be very effective on timber forwarder bogies. Could be fairly easily made up and only have to back off the track adjusters a bit to fit

 

[doobin]

I wonder if track chains would work, seem to be very effective on timber forwarder bogies. Could be fairly easily made up and only have to back off the track adjusters a bit to fit

I was thinking bandtracks, how would you make them? Main issue would be limited clearance between track and bottom of the turret.

 

[GazCro]

To gain any decent width you'd have to offset to the outside which i don't think would do the tracks any good.

 

[Canal Navvy]

I'd go rooting through the farm scrap pile looking for the "T" shaped serrated bars used on combine intake elevators and weld their backs onto lengths of chain & join with a joining link. Be interesting to see how well the width of the chain would hang on over the edge of the track.

 

[doobin]

This was another idea-

Would be simple to fab and fit if I removed the blade.

 

[T whiting]

I'm not sure you'll do much to increase the flotation by bolting somthing on all you would do is increase grip.

If it's occasional use have you considered a couple of 3x9 timbers at about 10ft long to sit on like bog mats it's surprising how that'll keep you afloat or a couple of small bog mats

 

[Grahams]

It won’t increase the flotation, but the track grip things you bolt on tracks will atleast give you more traction.

Rubber Grip - TrackGrip

www.trackgrip.com

 

[doobin]

I'm not sure you'll do much to increase the flotation by bolting somthing on all you would do is increase grip.

If it's occasional use have you considered a couple of 3x9 timbers at about 10ft long to sit on like bog mats it's surprising how that'll keep you afloat or a couple of small bog mats

I'm adept in the use of bog mats, but they're such a faff.

 

[craig]

This was another idea-

Would be simple to fab and fit if I removed the blade.

I seen that lightfoot system thing before, and it seemed to work OK once the tracks had sunk a couple of inches, might be a problem in a true low impact situation?

 

[T whiting]

I'm adept in the use of bog mats, but they're such a faff.

Bigger machine then tbh a 3t can get stuck on a decent concrete block

 

[Alan caddy]

We have a glencoe wheeled of roader that tracks get fitted over the tires basically long rubber strips with flat bars bolted across between them joined at ends with conveyer belt joints would work just as well on rubber tracks and cheap and easy to do will try and get pics tommorow

 

[GazCro]

By a set of wider rubber tracks if you could get some to fit?

 

[doobin]

By a set of wider rubber tracks if you could get some to fit?

Can’t get anything else

 

[V8Druid]

you want a couple of decent 'feet' Doob ......... like this old girl

 

[Furniss]

you want a couple of decent 'feet' Doob ......... like this old girl

Good luck getting that extracted if it breaks through and goes down

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Good luck getting that extracted if it breaks through and goes down

I thought the same!

 

[Storrsy]

Shame you can’t add a set of duals on a digger! Or can you.... be just the job for those old set of tracks lying around the yard.

 

[Smiffy]

Shame you can’t add a set of duals on a digger! Or can you.... be just the job for those old set of tracks lying around the yard.

I'm sure there was a picture somewhere of someone who had done just that
Obviously sprocket end is easy in principle but idler might be harder