Well they seemed to fit straight on ok. Heck of a difference on slope work- only played around the yard so far. They are not pleasant on a hard surface but you’d expect that. I reckon 30% of my work they will be a godsend on, and I’ll wonder why I never bought them sooner. I just assumed steels were bobcats price of £3400 plus £1200 of sprocket and idler! Plus vat!
These owe me £1660 plus vat total. Bargain.
Now that they are on, I can see that I could make up some bolt on flotation pads to take it to around 500mm per side for swamp work. This I think is the best of both worlds- 300mm seemed to be all that was available in such a small pitch and you don’t want wider in the woods and on the hills, it’s just the traction I need there.
I managed to remove the rubber and fit the steel in just shy of twenty minutes per side on my own including fetching tools. Milwaukee 90 degree impact wrench and grease gun making life easy.
I foresee myself blocking up certain jobs and changing between steels and rubbers fairly regularly, so hopefully I will get better. Got a pair of brand new rubbers to fit, that might take a touch longer than the 20 mins a side I fear!
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, 20 years ago I had a lucrative earner doing tyre swaps on new tractors and 8 off, 8 on was 2 hours work 
. Steels all the way for rural work I reckons
