During the summer months we might just love to have a job outside the office but when it comes to this time of year you have ot sparea though for those out driving excavtors and bulldozers through some of the worst weather, wet and muddy conditions. It is respect to these rubber tracked vehicles that allow the building or heavy moving industries still continue in weather you would not walk the dog in.
It is these times we get to see the reliability of these vehicles and how flexible they are in bad conditions. the last thing you want to have to do, is change something like an excavator undercarriage or even its rubber tracks in these conditions. What every worker wants is a quiet clean and warm working day at teh wheel or stick of his tracked machine, hopefully with a working heater.
Get a look at this, heaven for someone and nothing but a CO2 nightmre for others. This looks like some machine not seen often in the UK with a paint pot stuck over its funnel (just joking). Well the bulldozer undercarriage here is some size, compared to the machine itself, so you can image the power that will come from this machine, not doubt a great workhorse
In order for these rubber tracks to benefit their working applications they are normaly attached to an underacarriage say on a excavator or bulldozer. So the excavator undercarriage becomes an important feature in the manouvreability and flexibility of movement. In fact their is a whole industry waitng to sell these excavator parts for all types of machines, especially as many of thes vehicles work 24/7 in terrible conditions and weathers, so keeping these vehicles maintained is very important. Ok here is a very boring video ona Excavator undercarriage to remind us what one looks like during working hours.
If you wanted to know what difference in grip or benefits from rubber tires than rubber tracks then take a look at this video. It shows the same mini digger trying to do its work just on basic tires then these tires are repalced with rubber tracks and you can see the immediate difference in ability to do the job.
We all know that rubber tracks can take vehicles to places that wheeled vehicles can’t go, by spreading the weight across a larger area. Here we have a boom vehicle designed to access high areas, but rather than a longer rubber track across 2 wheels, this has single wheels covered with the rubber material to give extra grip. The whole unit can be driven by the man in the boom, making this a one man operation in safe areas. this is no small vehicle either, it has substanial power and combinded with its rubber trackes wheels ill have many uses for outside in non tarmaced areas, even though bogs and low water locations..
Keeping that rubber track turning needs more than a black piece of rubber circling a few wheels, well no so so. These track parts as they are called are quiet specialist and not available from your local auto store. Such parts like Sprockets, which drive the rubber tracks and then there are idlers and don’t forget those rubber pads and track rollers. Without these track parts, your tracked machine does not move.
Clearly business need access to these spares quickly or in times of trouble their business starts losing money as their vehicles grind to a halt. Businesses like Universal Track Parts will get your parts out to you next day and of course the quality of these parts are critical. There is no point in adding cheap non tested parts to your business machines, if you are going to lose money with employees standing around when you only get a quater of the workload used.
So the trick is to ensure you get gorr quality parts, delivered on time by a reputable firm like Universal Track Parts.
I though Volvo was the the largest exporter of cars and generally made the safteest cars in the world, not to mention their headlights never switch iff in winter, but I did not know they made vehicles with rubber tracks. This BV202 is obviously an example of this.
This example is being used through woods of I presume Scandinavia and looks like a military vehicle. Anothe example of how a vehcile with rubber tracks can help businesses move stock and people.
Not every rubber tracked vehicle is actually driven with a driver sitting within some are remotely controlled. In this case it is an air compressor that has been fitted with rubber tracks.
Sometimes we need this type of machinery in areas that normal wheels will not get to, so by adding rubber tracks and then a remote control system to move it to the exact location certain solutions can be found for unique issues.
In these case these huge tools on rubber tracks have to be transported in by lorry to the nearest convenient place.
I suppose we are used to seeing forklifts with the traditional 3 wheel configeration to get in and out of confinded spaces at speed across hard sufaces. But there ar times when a hard surface is not available outside and you are about to lift very heavy weights. Well here is an example of a fork lift that uses rubber tracks to get over those surfaces.
In this clip you do not see it working in the enviroment it is supposed to, just moving into a garage, but you may be able to see how a rubber tracked forklify could help your business.