badranman
Charter Member
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2003
- Messages
- 218
- Location
- Halifax Nova Scotia
- Occupation
- Owner Cutting Edge Construction Limited
Well today we managed to break a steel track on the new Bobcat 430 with a whopping 19 hrs on it. The machine was barely moving the last 2 days and it was basically working in the top 4-6 inches of topsoil the tracks were turning up. One of the track pieces broke where it wraps around the pin that holds it and the next one together. The metal didn't look all that great, kinda looked like white metal. The tracks were lighter than I thought they'd be too. Bobcat service manager came out and said it shouldn't have broke given the conditions. My question to you guys is, was this a fluke ie: just a bad run of track, or are they known to be trouble? I have another 430 rubber track and the whole reason for getting this one was to prevent tearing the rubber ones up where they weren't needed.:Banghead Anyone?