rubber tracked dozer

[buckfever]

i'v seen small dozers with rubber tracks. wonder if anyone has used one and what they are spec to do.

 

[witchdoctor]

i'm running a d4 sideboom that has rubber pads that bolt to the grousers if thats what you mean by rubber tracks. we use them to lay pipe from the road.

 

[willie59]

I know Komatsu offered the D20, maybe it was the D21, with rubber tracks. I know a contractor that builds homes has one. He uses it for finish dozing and can drive it around the new housing project on the paved roads to get to next site he needs to work and doesn't tear up asphalt doing so. Goes across concrete curbs without damaging them as well. For his work, he likes it really well.

 

[QuickTrax]

Those rubber tracks are very expensive for the D21. They cost more than new steel track groups. I have swapped a few rubber track machines back to the regular tracks. They are very convenient for getting around residential sites but very costly.

 

[buckfever]

how do those tracks dig in. look like they'd be good for topsoil work. bet they would push snow like a champ .

 

[Dozerboy]

You can get a dozer blade for the larger track style skidsteers and it would be more versatile then a dozer.