Dan's new 6x6 Argo Frontier Scout

[mightymaxIV]

Looks great Dan! I love my Vendettas also. Hopefully the 18hp B&S will be replaced with the 27hp Kohler. The 16” demand a lot of power.

Yes they do!

[mightymaxIV]

Some video shot at Busco Beach on the 12th and 13th of April: lots of other machines in this video but you get a chance to dee how the Scout performed with Adair Tracks in some pretty extreme mud conditions.

[wildmanargo]

Wow that thing is a tank

[beungood]

Radar, its got the standard high speed (22 mph) classic transmission. Please bear in mind that I have owned two machines with the Admiral transmission, I hated all the noise they make and I absolutely hated the counter rotation in low gear when I was trying to pull out a 4x4 stuck deep in the mud.

With the big Fuel injected Kohler engine this machine has plenty of power and once you learn the proper technique for driving the old style transmission they are extremely fun in a 6x6. You can turn them on a dime or move them really fast down the trails if you chose to do so. (not as easy with an 8X8)

What I like is the the ability to turn this machine in very tight wooded situations. I also like the fact that I can lean left or right in mud or water and make the machine do what I want. This is not so easy on an 8x8.

Over all I am very pleased, in the very near future the machine will be fitted with 6 sixteen inch wide Vendetta tires and I will chose tracks or tires depending on where I run. Nothing tops the tracks for Mud Nationals conditions but tires are tops in swampy watery conditions.

I have run the 16 wide Vendettas on my MaxIV and can tell you those Vendettas have track like traction in everything but Texas Pudding mud.

What is the counter rotation in low gear when you pull out stuck vehicles?

[beungood]

"Over all I was very pleased with the machine and I find that being able to Lock down one side of the tracks with the old style transmission was a distinct advantage in several areas. I also found i could travel down the trails at a speed of up to 18 MPH and feel in complete control. "

How is locking one side of the tracks on the old style trans an advantage? the trans cant do it?

[mightymaxIV]

"Over all I was very pleased with the machine and I find that being able to Lock down one side of the tracks with the old style transmission was a distinct advantage in several areas. I also found i could travel down the trails at a speed of up to 18 MPH and feel in complete control. "

How is locking one side of the tracks on the old style trans an advantage? the trans cant do it?

Counter Rotation, I owned two Argos with the Admiral transmission, both had the counter rotation feature, meaning when you placed the machine in low range and hit the handlebars left or right the machine would begin to counter rotate, meaning if you steered hard right the right right track would go forward and the left track would start to turn backward. This feature is supposed to help the machine to make very sharp turns in low range. Most of the time I found it to be a very annoying feature.

The ability to lock down a track means that I can totally stop the left or right track to make sharp turns left or right, this is extremely helpful in many trail situations and very helpful when your are in the water trying to get over a stump or cypress knee. With th Admiral transmission you generally cannot fully lock down one side as that transmission continuously puts power to both sides. The Admiral turns by slowing one side down while the other side turns at a greater speed, meaning making extremely tight turns is very difficult unless you are in low range using the counter rotation.

[Noel Woods]

Last I heard Argo was working on a fix for the problems described above. I'm not sure if they resolved the issue or not on the new machines with the latest version of the Admiral.
Maybe someone with a new machine and Admiral tranny can chime in.

[mightymaxIV]

Some video of my 10 year old Grandson Driving my Argo scout, not doing to bad considering he only has about 20 minutes of stick time. He's still not really to try the mud holes alone but doing very well.

[mowbizz]

Lots of fun there! Good on you for letting him drive the Scout!
I think you have a buddy for life! As far as the “screamer” granddaughter...well that’s what little girls do best!

[Deedeelin1]

Dan, You are a great Grandfather.

[scott8x8]

Grandpa has such cool toys

[john swenson]

very cool dan ! so nice you have a place for them to learn . busco...here they come .. have fun. johnboy va.

[mightymaxIV]

Some video of my Grandson Levi Driving the Argo in the mud.

[Noel Woods]

Good to see kids having fun with AATVs.

[john swenson]

dan...is that video taken right by house ? nice to have some water to play in. j.b.