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Fully Suspended Undercarriage for Comfort and Traction

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Tires or Tracks on a skid steer in Deep Snow-Can you plow with a tracked loader?

What happens here

The video highlights the advantages of ASV's fully suspended undercarriage system. This design allows the track to continuously maintain full contact with the ground, even over uneven terrain. For the operator, this translates into a remarkably smooth ride, significantly reducing the jarring impacts typically experienced in track loaders without suspension. More importantly, the suspended system allows the track to 'drop down' and absorb obstacles, ensuring consistent traction and preventing the machine from losing grip or becoming unstable, particularly vital in unpredictable snow environments.

Goal: Identify how a suspended undercarriage improves operator comfort and maintains optimal traction.

Tools and materials

  • ASV RT-75 Compact Track Loader ASV — Illustrating the movement of the suspended undercarriage

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to allow you to float. You'll see it in snow, too, you know. So, that that weight distribution's going to help you on the snow and the ice, right? Have weight heavy or So, when you engage your bucket, right? You drop it down on the concrete, you start scraping concrete. On a lot of machines with rear weight bias, you engage that bucket and the front of the track wants to come off the ground and you're just driving on the rear wheels. So, all you have is that little rear wheel providing traction. Mhm. And in a skid steer design, you've got an even weight balance and then you've also got a suspended undercarriage. This becomes your friend because as you engage that bucket in the front, this suspension actually suspends not only up to give you a smooth ride, but also down to give you traction. So, you engage the bucket, this drops down, we got a nice even weight balance on the track system, and that's what's really going to help you move some snow. So anybody understand that? Not a clue. Tim, you get you got it? Tim, did you get it? Yeah. Yeah, I didn't I didn't get it. We've been up for a while. Can you say that in All right, so wait a minute. In our In all of our defense, Buck, we've been up since well, pretty much all day and night cuz it's been we've been snow plowing. So, we're a little loopy. I'm going to say that. I've been studying this for 24 years. You've had like 2.4 seconds of I just gave you the condensed version. you say that in English? The suspension, cuz you've pushed you're pushing up on the body, in some designs you'd be lifting the track right off the ground. In the ASV design, the suspension allows that track to drop in. And the reason that's important, you guys, is the more track you have in contact with the ground, the better the traction you'll have, and the more you're distributing the weight of the machine over the tracks to give you the least pounds per square foot on the ground. By keeping the weight distribution over the largest possible surface area, this will give you better

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