Ground Clearance for Snow Maneuverability

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

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Buck from ASV emphasizes the critical importance of ground clearance for effective snow removal. He highlights that the ASV RT-75 offers an impressive 15 inches of ground clearance, which is presented as an industry-leading figure for any compact track loader. This superior clearance prevents the machine from 'belly dragging'—a common issue where the undercarriage gets stuck in deep snow—and allows it to float over large snow piles and hidden obstacles. This directly translates to enhanced flotation and improved maneuverability in challenging winter conditions.

Goal: Understand the benefit of high ground clearance in snow removal operations.

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ASV RT-75 Compact Track Loader ASV — Illustrating ground clearance during snow pushing

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which I think Buck can speak to. The things that ASV does different than everybody else and and you know, not just Takeuchi or CAT, but the things we do different than everyone, you know, key features that help it perform well in snow, you know, you can start with ground clearance, right? Yeah, 15 in of ground clearance on this thing. That's your friend when you're out in deep snow like you will be you know, with this machine. Yeah, it's got an insane amazing ground clearance. I mean, we were actually driving over actual logs and not hitting them. I mean, we were you and I were when we were out doing a forestry mulching video. I mean, I'm just looking underneath and going he's just straddling right over the top of that. So we were able to float over a lot of places. So ground clearance is an important thing. Does this have better ground clearance than a typical machine? Right, wrong, or in between? Yeah, industry leading for certain, yeah. So it technically has 15 in of ground clearance which is the most for any tracked skid loader on the market right now. Now that ground clearance does a number of things. It allows you to clear obstacles very well. That's one of the most important benefits to having high ground clearance. Remember Tim, when we brought uh we brought another machine out and we're talking about how it was belly dragging? The whole time. The whole time. Muddy soils and you were Yep, scraping the belly the whole time. Yeah. So, I Yeah, I've never seen one of these up close, so this is nice. A lot of ground clearance on it. Yeah. Yeah, so that's an important thing. So, if you guys are in the market and you're like, "Hey, what should we be looking for when we're buying a track loader?" If you do snow work, there's we're going to get to that because we want to actually show you the tread pattern that you need. It's not kind of sort of or you can get by with. Right now, I've got a Bobcat T180 parked at my house. Hey Tim, what do you think of that T180 out here? I sometimes pull it out of the uh shop and

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