Originally Posted by
Stonewall
Those things are so cool. I never see them up here in the flatlands. I always thought the pontoon tracks for trackhoes were awesome.
They are awesome, I got to ride some of them back in '88 while doing oil exploration, only ever saw one of them stuck, wedged his pontoons between 2 trees, so only the very outside edges of the tracks could grab anything. Once he shredded the wood out from under them,(big chunks flying) he could no longer move at all, so I pulled the winch line to a tree and we were on our way again! That was the survey buggy as we were BUSTING a trail from the end of one line to the beginning of another. Then I was transferred to the recording crew and we were pulled -all day every day- through the swamp in a 8'X20" steel boat by another swamp buggy! If the company I worked with would have had permanent contracts doing swamp work, I think I would STILL be doing that.
Air boats were a hoot also, a lot stronger than one would think...
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