Question re: Trax removal and installation

[fornarog]

A friend had is ARGO serviced a few weeks ago.

The mechanic showed him a trick he uses to remove and install trax. He pulls the rear wheel/tire off the machine and then just slips the trax off. To install, he puts the trax back on and then mounts the rear tire/wheel.

My friend said it took only a few minutes and looked quite simple.

This seems to be a huge improvement over the way we've learned to do them over time (remove a rod - often requiring it to be cut because the lock barrels are seized up) and then lower the air pressure on the tires, use channel locks or clamps to re-align the tracks to install new rods).

Does anyone have any experience doing it this way, or any feedback on why this would not be a good idea?

Being able to relatively quickly remove/install tracks would make my machine far more versatile year round.

Thanks

[Craig_B]

I have basically no experience with Argos yet, recently aquired mine.
But the first thing I did was remove the tracks and that is how I did it.
The locking collar on the rod was seized so I removed a wheel, maybe two, slid the track off so I could cut the rod.
Was pretty easy.

[Coast2Coast]

I saw 2 guys on an oilfield site doing it this way. I drove by them and they had the front tire off and the track all half on the machine, then when I drove by a half hour later they were not much further ahead in the process. They both looked pretty frustrated though lol. They may have had worse problems, I don't know, had no time to stop and find out.