Heavy Equipment Traction Challenges

weather now our job today is to remove all of the final debris the frozen foundation of the house that we have just been tore down traction as well as Frost is a major issue take a look at this tract skid loader typically during the summer spring summer fall this machine absolutely rot but in the winter time it's a completely different story as you watch this video pay attention to how the tracks operate in the snow both on that T 180 skid loader and on the excavator you're going to see that we can't get any traction with these equipment that's why when the excavator is grabbing in this soil you see the entire machine sliding around it's not the operator trying to do that it's actually the fact that those steel tracks as well as those rubber tracks just can't fight in these kind of conditions now there's dirt on that street that machine should be able to get it but there's just a slick enough layer of snow and ice keeping it from really being able to take up what happens is it slows down our progress on the job sites and you'll watch this excavator right here sliding all over those excavators are like having a giant snow board underneath your machine or a giant set of skis on a thirty six thousand pound machine you just can't stay still spring summer fall that machine wouldn't be moving wintertime we've driven that machine up onto a trailer on a flat surface and had it slide off the trailer sideways there it's that dangerous the dirt looking inside the tracks you'll see that the dirt sticks in there and then it freezes and keeps the tracks from actually getting any bite in the soil below it it's tough to see in the video but you pay close attention to that frozen dirt in there and that acts just like the wax on the bottom of a set of skis and you just can't get anywhere with it what he's