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Polycord Track Material for Flexibility and Durability

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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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The video highlights the advanced polycord track material used in ASV machines, contrasting it with traditional steel-cabled tracks. This polycord material offers exceptional flexibility, allowing the tracks to stretch and contract when encountering obstacles without sustaining damage. This inherent flexibility is crucial for preventing track breakage, derailing, and other forms of damage, thereby contributing significantly to the overall durability, reliability, and extended lifespan of the track system.

Goal: Understand how polycord track material enhances flexibility and overall durability.

Tools and materials

  • ASV RT-75 Compact Track Loader ASV — Illustrating the track material

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of materials you're running in. But if we're doubling Typically doubling the track life, are these more expensive to replace? Why are guys thinking this is more expensive to you? Yeah, so I I honestly a lot of that expense conversation focuses around these wheels and people seeing a chunk or a chip and not understanding the function of the purpose of that wheel, right? So, you run in and replace this wheel every time you see a scratch or a chunk in it, it's going to get very expensive. But, if you understand its its purpose in life and just how ugly that guy can really be before any replacement is required. So, that is really some of the major differences guys should look for and is there anything else that we should cover with tracks that so that these guys can go out and when they're looking at tracks, they know what they're getting into and know what to be looking for on on their machines. Right. The other big difference between the ASV design and others is the sprocket. So, we run what we call internal positive drive. An internal positive drive has got this roller, which I'm turning with my hand, that engages a lug here and rolls as it engages that lug, right? Okay. Where that differs from most designs, dozers, other compact track loaders that they will have a through sprocket design typically, right? It pulls through the center of the track. The advantage of this roller design is it's a very low friction design. So, the through sprockets, you know, they come from dozers that historically go 4 or 5 mile an hour and that through sprocket as it comes through wants to hook that track. There's a lot of friction going on there. Clink clink clink clink clink. Yeah. And you hear that you see that same thing in compact track loaders. This design is a lot lower friction. It rolls

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