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Open Underframe Design for Self-Cleaning and Reduced Maintenance

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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 details ASV's unique open, single-rail undercarriage design, which offers significant maintenance advantages. Unlike 'closed tub' designs commonly found in competitors' machines that trap snow, mud, and debris, ASV's open frame allows material to easily fall out and self-clean. This prevents damaging buildup and freezing, which can cause premature wear on rollers and tracks. The self-cleaning feature is crucial for reducing maintenance downtime and extending the lifespan of undercarriage components, particularly in harsh winter conditions.

Goal: Understand the maintenance benefits of an open undercarriage design.

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  • ASV RT-75 Compact Track Loader ASV — Showcasing the open underframe and comparing it to competitor designs

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about that. Sure. So, let me I'll start with snow, right? I mean one of the biggest one of the biggest evolutions we think happens in the 20th century is the single rail undercarriage, right? So, again a unique ASV design. We refer to this as our single rail design and and we do that because you do just really have one frame rail running down the center, right? And then all of the idler wheels are suspended from that single rail and out here in the open. And most designs you're going to be familiar with that's going to be a closed tub Yep. referred to as, Yep. right? And that enclosure really what that does it it's enclosing the wheels. We had those designs 10 years ago. We got away from that because the single rail gave us huge advantages in wheel life and undercarriage cleanliness. So, what it does in the snow is as snow is getting in here and trying to pack on everything, if you had an enclosed rail the snow packs underneath it, packs on top of it. Unfortunately, if you park it outside overnight you might get up in the morning and the sprockets will be iced up that kind of thing. Yep. By getting to an open design, you can see that the material is then able to actually fall out and self clean. So, this design is really focuses around self cleaning and trying to let as much of that material fall out as we can. Now, is that applicable for dirt as well as snow and ice but It is, absolutely. Because one of the great things that you know it going to help you with snow and ice, but it also helps you with rock and trees and sticks and logs. As those things fall in, what we found in our closed tub designs is that it fall in in the closed tub, the wheel will carry it around, trap it in there, right? As soon as the wheel traps it in there, that object can do damage to that wheel. But, if that object can fall in there and pass through and fall back out, now it's not doing any damage and it's not depending on you to go out and clean it. So, we we saw wheel life improve exponentially by getting to this open design. So, you know, it is something that when you get in rock and debris and and uh sticks and logs that you are going to see wheels that a rock comes by and chunks or chips the edge of this. The key to that is don't panic. That is normal wear and tear. It is something that is visual, not

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