New Adair 18.5 inch belted snow and ice tracks

[bigbuck]

Wow!!!! That is impressive!!! How much of that performance is attributed to the track as opposed to the cleats?, or do you believe you could conquer that without the cleats?

[rockrewls]

Impressive Fox, thanks for the vid

[Rock Doctor]

Here is another video,I should be working, but just can't help myself. I just got done making a bunch,so more are on the way.Thanks for enjoying my "work" Hey,am I supposed to be embeding the video to get set up right?

up the sand knob with trailer - YouTube

That just impressed the he!! Out if me. Really
I want to go out, but I'm snowed in at work

RD

[foxvalley]

That just impressed the he!! Out if me. Really
I want to go out, but I'm snowed in at work

RD

Doc, Since you can't go out I'll just keep em comming for you. Figure about 500lbs. in the trailer.


out of the little pond with trailer - YouTube

[foxvalley]

This next video is one of the holes that, by the end of the summer, I had to go around,or winch out. There seems to be a root system right as you start to pop out of the hole,and this is what was giving me fits last year,the grossers just couldn't grab onto the root, and get me out.
As you will see, that hole,and all the rest of them are a non issue now. The metal cleats claw into the wood, and make little work out of getting me out. Also, there is still ice under the trail that I am on, and with the steel cleats,you wouldn't even know it was there. This was another issue I had last spring,without studs in the grossers,I had a hard time of it.Studding the grossers, however, did a wonderful job of eliminating the slip,and gave me more traction than I thought it would.

http://youtu.be/7IhRNKWAwSU

[foxvalley]

Wow!!!! That is impressive!!! How much of that performance is attributed to the track as opposed to the cleats?, or do you believe you could conquer that without the cleats?

bigbuck, I think I needed every inch of what I had to get up that hill.

[foxvalley]

In this video, I wanted to take the trailer into the "hole" but found out that the ice was still present under my trail,in the form of shelves that lodged in between the trailer tires and the body,stopping any forward movement dead in my tracks. I ended up tipping the trailer over as I tried to turn it around,and had to unload my woodpile...... twice out of the trailer, before I made it back to high ground. If it wasn't for the ice shelves,I would have had no issues.

getting the trailer stuck in the swamp - YouTube

[rockrewls]

cool vids fox, how hard is it to turn the argo when its loaded with all the metal crossers added, eg. carrying a moose plus gear type of weight so 1000lbs or so in the argo itself?

Rock

[Obsessed]

Here is another video,I should be working, but just can't help myself. I just got done making a bunch,so more are on the way.Thanks for enjoying my "work" Hey,am I supposed to be embeding the video to get set up right?

up the sand knob with trailer - YouTube

Wow, cool video Doug.....but I cant help to think I might have just heard your poor little trailer saying "ouch"...lol

Tim

[foxvalley]

cool vids fox, how hard is it to turn the argo when its loaded with all the metal crossers added, eg. carrying a moose plus gear type of weight so 1000lbs or so in the argo itself?

Rock

Hey Rock, Haven't forgot about your request, just don't have the manpower (ballast) to fill it up. The pro series with the cleat kits installed turn very simular to the rubber tracks,if not better on hard surfaces,and any unit that would run rubber,can run these,but the nice thing about this setup, is you can take the cleat kit off,and turn like silk,and still have an extremly aggressive track.
I had to put about 400lbs. of logs in the back of the unit,to get out of the swamp with the trailer,with about 100lbs. in it,so there is 600lbs. in the argo pulling the trailer,I know you don't have the same setup,but this is all I have to demo in(ya,I know it sucks)but weight in this setup is more of a non issue.
I will post the vid of me getting out of the swamp this way,I was going to delete it,(boring) but it might give you a better idea about these tracks.One more note on this video,there is still ice under the water on this trail,and without steel cleats,I never would have made it back here,......at all....

http://youtu.be/b3PJwb2GyE8

[foxvalley]

Wow, cool video Doug.....but I cant help to think I might have just heard your poor little trailer saying "ouch"...lol

Tim

I was shocked,no stunned, that the trailer wasn't going on the burn pile today!

[Obsessed]

Seriously...it did look like a pretty well built little trailer...when I seen the overloaded pile of logs on it go down in the water I thought to myself "nope"..."that ain't gonna work"..."that trailer is gonna sink like a rock"...made me giggle when you dragged it up that steep sand bank anyway and all the water dumped out of the back if the trailer...thought to myself..."well I guess that's one way to wash your firewood"...lol...leave it to Doug to get things done!

:-)

[foxvalley]

Wow, cool video Doug.....but I cant help to think I might have just heard your poor little trailer saying "ouch"...lol

Tim

tipped over trailer - YouTube

[mightymaxIV]

Holly Mackerel Fox Valley! I stay off the internet for two days and you post more ground breaking unbelievable videos, if I wasn't watching this video with my own eyes I would tell you this couldn't be done! Wow you have done it again Fox Valley!

The first video shows just how well the counter rotation works under these conditions, you were able to get your Argo straight and pull right up a sand bank that would have been the death of most machines, and all this pulling a log trailer! Wow that machine swims well!

[bigbuck]

And this years prestigous award for the best new film clips in the category of "New Track Performance" goes to...................FOXVALLEY!!!!!