Reports from the Mudd-Ox front

[AKMUDDOX]

Power

I wasn't out of power yet... I actually backed back down because of the cliff right there. We do have our black one with tracks geared high right now, and it was able to climb 99% of the hills we tried. I think once we put it in the lower gears she will crawl up anything we point her at. We were able to go 15mph with the tracks on in the flats.

[Moallen]

Come on

Hey guys , what other machine will turn and back up like that? It is like driving a bobcat , If they make a better machine for the money I don't know what it is.
Allen

[hancock]

YouTube - Mudd Ox.

Alrighty, the best way to view this is click the link and then on the page it directs you to, go to the far right and select "play all video". It will run you through each short video clip in sequence.

These are a few more clips from the Ozarks. It's a little disjointed. I wasn't able to edit the individual clips into one. We have a usb phone card at the house for the pc which isn't fast enough to upload video, and the Mac laptop I'm on right now won't interface with the camcorder video program to allow me to edit. So......I'm a little limited in my options.

Sorry, no mud bogs for the avid mudders. Just some short clips up and down some hills and through the woods locally.

The last hill was actually quite steep and the perspective was lost a little from the rear angle of the video, so I added a little clip or two at the end to show the side angle and give a better idea of the steepness of the incline. The ground was also a little spongy from a fresh snow melt/thaw, so the ease with which the Ox went up the hill was pretty impressive. Jim Bob said he was impressed, anyhow.

The various ways you can manipulate the controls to steer come in handy and I tried to demonstrate that a little in these video clips. Once in the woods, if they are thick at all, it's nice to be able to counter rotate, or skid steer around trees, etc. to pick your way through. You'll also notice at the top of the last, and steepest hill, I turned a little to the right. The Ox was able to keep moving forward the whole time with no forward momentum or power loss, (which wouldn't have been cool at the top of an incline like that).

Enjoy
Hancock

[Roger S]

That hill was steep, it's always steeper than the video shows.

[tbunce7]

New pet today

Matt O's dad delivered my Mudd-ox today. Had to install the top, then my son and I put it through it's paces. We got 5" of new snow today. We danced that thing all around the yard. We will put the blade on tomorrow and push some snow. This machine is aawwsomme!!!! Great job Matt and crew.

[mudbug3]

hancock


The hill that you climbed with your Mudd Ox did not look that steep to me until I watched the video of your dog running down the hill. When I watched that part of the video , I realized that was a really steep hill ! Like Roger says, if a hill looks steep in a video, its REALLY steep.

[hancock]

The hill that you climbed with your Mudd Ox did not look that steep to me until I watched the video of your dog running down the hill. When I watched that part of the video , I realized that was a really steep hill ! Like Roger says, if a hill looks steep in a video, its REALLY steep.

Yep. When I watched the video afterward, it didn't look that dramatic to me, either. (A little disappointing after committing yourself to going up an angle like that). I wanted to make sure I showed some of the performance capabilities of the Ox, so I added that extra clip with the dog to try to get the angle of the incline represented a little better. 2 dimensional video sometimes just doesn't do the real situation justice. What added to the difficulty was that the ground was fairly soft. (My wife told me I was going to be on America's Funniest Home Videos rolling my new Mudd-Ox down the hill). You know how it is on those steep angles: if they are short in length, usually no big deal...but, when they have some length to them, you have just enough room to get yourself towards the top, lose traction, and then get yourself in trouble.

Hancock

[mudslinger]

Has anybody found the limit of snow depth that the Ox can handle without getting stuck by just using the standard tires? I know the sky is the limit with the tracks on but I am wondering how deep can you go before you start to run up on top of the snow and high center it so that you loose traction.

[AKfishhunter]

Mudd OX in Snow

I have been driving my Ox all over around my house and the deepest I have been in is about 5 inches. The Ox handled it no problem. I did get it stuck in some really soft stuff in the trees behind the house. It was probably 10" and I just got a little too confident after climbing all the piles of snow around my house. I can't believe how well the Mudd OX plows. I get the job done faster and have a good time while doing it. I can only imagine how high you could build a pile with tracks. It would be like having a little dozer.

[E-K-C]

TEST RIDE

I got my ride today here in alaska today in the black one and it is a beast............ This machine is impressive,the tracks have deep lugs and move great on the white stuff...
Jest thought I would give all of you a hard time until you ride in one.
E-K-C

[hancock]

Has anybody found the limit of snow depth that the Ox can handle without getting stuck by just using the standard tires? I know the sky is the limit with the tracks on but I am wondering how deep can you go before you start to run up on top of the snow and high center it so that you loose traction.
Yesterday 09:55 AM

The Alaska fellas or Matt could probably best answer that question. I haven't had too deep of a snowfall this year. I, at one point, had close to six inches on the ground and the Ox handled that no problem, but I'm not sure what the limitations would be in deeper snow than that.

I went up a hill with roughly a 30 degree slope in about 3-4 inches of snow while pulling a pretty heavy trailer full of wood, and the Ox made it. It struggled, but it did make it. The trailer had a little more wood in it than the one in that first video I posted, so it was loaded down pretty good, (probably pushing the load limits).

Hancock

[tbunce7]

Snow depth

I got my mudd-ox on Friday and we had 7" of snow. We have had no problems
with anything, hills, ditches, it goes where we point it. I asked Matt about snow depth and he said 12" no problem. Great machines, everyone enjoy.

Terry