Should I Purchase Tracks?

[beagle man]

Ha Ha , this is funny. If you haven't been stuck you haven't tried very hard. My experience has told me to pick a different line or hold my beer and watch this approach. Where I live and play in interior Alaska you have things that will eat you so don't get to cocky when you have a moose or a couple caribou in the back. Live by the sword or die by the sword.

[mowbizz]

Ha Ha , this is funny. If you haven't been stuck you haven't tried very hard. My experience has told me to pick a different line or hold my beer and watch this approach. Where I live and play in interior Alaska you have things that will eat you so don't get to cocky when you have a moose or a couple caribou in the back. Live by the sword or die by the sword.

Haha! Yes things can eat you up there in Alaska!
Always wanted to go on a grizzly hunt but never did. I think it’s too cost prohibitive nowadays and being 70, my hips would scream at the hiking needed to kill one...I can still watch all the YouTube bear hunts!

[scimanstev]

Being high centered is the Argo weakness. I admit I may have been a bit overzealous. I have gone through the most difficult terrain I can find. The most impressive thing was climbing a rippled ice sheet over 30 degrees incline. I am sure I will get stuck in mud at some point, but so far, thick slush and bare rock have been my only difficulties. I really do enjoy this Argo, and it was worth every penny I paid for it.

Steve

[philipatmaxfour]

I am running Beaver Dam Argo tracks, and although the steel is not the best on bare rock, these tracks are unstoppable. They swim, climb, and can claw their way through any amount of mud. I have the winter kit, but have never attached it. 3 feet of snow is not a problem. Pudding mud is not a problem. When I do encounter bare rock, the winch works just fine. Severe muskeg would not even be a challenge.

Steve

Hi Steve. Do you feel that you will be able to fit your Argo into your covered trailer with the winter kit attached to your beaver dam tracks?

[scimanstev]

Unfortunately no. Without the winter kit, I have about an inch on each side before I hit the wheel wells. That means that if I want to travel and use the winter kit, I will have to back the Argo out of the trailer and bolt it on. Then, after riding I would have to remove it before loading it back in the trailer. The rest of the problem is that with the tracks on, the Argo is too wide for any of the trails here in NH, so I am stuck using my back yard, steep trail, and a class 6 dirt road, along with properly owners allow me on. I created huge mud holes on my property, and I have access to a rock wall and small pond on my neighbor's property. Since I ride in all weather, I have crossed a 2 and a half foot raging creek, water rushing down the road and trail, and a 50 yard ice flow when the steep trail freezes, melts, and refreezes. One problem is that the huge mud holes I created alter drainage. That caused my neighbor's sump pump to run 24/7. I haven't figured out what I am going to do about that yet.

Steve

[mowbizz]

. One problem is that the huge mud holes I created alter drainage. That caused my neighbor's sump pump to run 24/7. I haven't figured out what I am going to do about that yet.

Steve

Problems with using someone else's property...hope you get it figured out!

[scimanstev]

The mud holes are on my property. It affects the drainage so that with the ground saturation we had this year, water flowed to the neighbor's yard. Her house is about 50 or 60 feet from my mud holes.

Steve

[mowbizz]

The mud holes are on my property. It affects the drainage so that with the ground saturation we had this year, water flowed to the neighbor's yard. Her house is about 50 or 60 feet from my mud holes.

Steve

Ok...good luck with the problem!