Heavy Equipment Comparison Tracked vs Wheeled Skid Steer.

kind of skid steer should you buy tracked one or a wheel skid loader let's go over that today let's cover the benefits and and the drawbacks of each one you know track skid loaders they weren't available to us years ago but I tell you what they transformed the world of track skid loaders have revolutionized the industry they're not always the right fit so let's go over the pluses and minuses of each let's start with the wield loader the typical standard Bobcat case New Holland I don't care what brand you use it's not about that at all what I want you to focus on is the fact that that wheel loader has distinct advantages over a track time and every time you're working on a hard surface doing demolition doing anything along those lines working on a street bouncing over curbs you want a wheel loader you want those four basic points tires my friends are way cheaper to replace than tracks that's part of the the issue with these track loaders is yes you can use them for demolition yes you can use them on streets but they cost almost three four times as much as a set of decent tires you go through a much faster so if you're doing a demolition job this is a great example you're ripping up some concrete or something in a patio and getting it prepped so you'd put a paer base down or whatever the point is is as soon as you slice those tracks with a sharp piece of concrete That You Don't See you're now out $2,000 per side it's just ridiculous the cost of these tracks there is a compromise in the middle and what we're going to be talking about is utilizing what I'm going to recommend is rubber tracks over tires it gives you flexibility it gives you versatility so the benefit of a track skid loader I'm going to back it up just a little bit the benefit of a track skid loader is the fact that you can go almost anywhere you can grade almost anything they are just so versatile for the amount of work you can do especially dirt work there's a huge advantage to using them the disadvantages is the cost of those tracks and the limited amount of work that you want to do you don't want to do snow PL with a track skid loader simply because you're wearing the tracks down faster than you are a set of tires and it costs you more per hour to replace those tracks making it almost cost prohibitive but if you compromise in the middle if you take a set of rubber tires and then you put a rubber track over the top of it you can float not as good as a track skid loader but you can still float on the on the surface you can do grading work similar similar to what you can do with the track skid loader and then if you get into a demolition site or you get into a street project you pull those rubber tracks off and you just roll with the tires so you have both benefits it's a huge advantage to it now one of the other questions that I want to bring up is um the steel tracks those uh they're called grousers or low Rings or whatever the brand name is that doesn't make much of a difference but the steel tracks that go over the rubber tires stay away from them I've used them for years and years because they're just wasn't any other options out there they're going to rip up your machine they're going to rip up whatever yard you're in yeah they're great for biting in mud awesome for biting in mud awesome for floating over clay surfaces and getting in Slippery conditions where the tracks themselves don't work but they are hard on the equipment they're expensive and forget about going on a street with them plain and simple you go on a street with a set of Steel tracks on a skid loader you're going to tear that street right up you're going to expect a few phone calls on that so let's go over some of the other advantages and disadvantages that we haven't covered so far compaction or the lack there of a skid loader wit tires will compact the ground that it's on sometimes you want that compaction sometimes you need that compaction sometimes you want the weight of the machine to work to solidify the soil underneath tires are excellent at that they have four little points about the size of this that they actually touch the ground that's where all the weight is the pound per square foot or inch is immense and it will compact driveways it will compact surfaces it will compact a lot of different areas and you can actually utilize the weight of the machine and those tires to your advantage now on the other hand you may not want compaction you may be grading a yard you may be trying to get it prepped so something can grow in that case the tires are the last thing you want you want to be able to float over that there are track systems out there that you can actually put your foot underneath the track you can roll right over the top of your foot with that track skid loader and your foot won't be broken I don't recommend you going out and testing it I know this because I've accidentally done it a few times but and the needless to say if you can roll sumary time and the living is easy summer time not summertime summery time Wheels the benefit to Wheels is to think about the rubber the cost of the rubber each tire cost you a maximum 250 bucks you spend more than that you're wasting your dollar bills ladies and gentlemen so don't be spending more than $250 per tire four tires is $11,000 to replace a set you're going to be going through those tires um you're going to want to use a tired machine when you're working on a street because every time a skid steer turns remember a skid steer does exactly what it skids as it turns it's wearing the rubber off the tires it's a huge factor to keep in mind um you're going to want to use them on demolition jobs CU if you stick a piece of rebar through a tire well you're you can plug it patch it and be on down the road it's not perfect you also want a tired machine if you need compaction plain and simple you're going to want to go with a track machine if you need to float if you don't want compaction if you need to be able to bulldoze or and grade just smooth like a tabletop a track machine is where it's at day and night there's there's amazing now there's a lot of different track machines out there and the hybrid in between them is tracks over tires now I'm going to personally go out there and tell you stay away from the steel tracks over tires I dislike them I have multiple sets of them sitting in my yard and last case Last Resort I throw them on one of my machines okay I do like the rubber tires the rubber tracks over the rubber tires ultimate versatility ultimate flexibility if you're going to buy one machine that would probably be the way to go buy the machine that has the dedicated tires and stick the tracks over the top of them and you can snowplow on the winter time you can wear your rubber tires out you can put new rubber tires on Save the rubber tracks P be able to pop them on and off it's just kind of The Best of Both Worlds but it's not quite as good as either one there's 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