Installing CAMSO Steel OTT Skid Steer Treads.
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Without this major mod, the skid steer won't be able to do what I really need it to do (plow an insanely dangerous laneway). In this video , I go through the steps required for one person to install a pair of these tracks (~600lbs each!!!).
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:13 Zany sweet jumps!
1:32 Unloading
2:29 Unwrapping, bring a friend
5:41 Starting the install
12:29 Removing links
15:00 Resizing the treads
18:52 Trying out the new shoes
24:23 Quick road trial
26:26 Inky blackness of my soul.
Music used by license, available on request. - Навчання та стиль
New video coming shortly, I've been held up by weather, and I wanted to get to the "here is the thing almost finished" stage before I put another video out. Should be up this weekend of the 8th at the latest.
So i own a few rubber and steel tracked excavators and and I’ve also had wheeled skiddys and now a track skidsteers. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the absolute best way to plow snow with a skiddy on ice is tires with individual chains. Those steel tracks do great for forward and backwards on ice and they LOVE to slide side to side so if the road is off cambered you will go for a ride. Those tracks you put on will work great in mud and brush, but they’ll be scary as hell on ice. Just my two cents after trying a combination of solutions for skiddys on ice. Best of luck.
I had chains on my last skidsteer here, and they weren't doing the job. Buggy would do pirouettes. So sold that one, got this one which has about 700lbs on the old one, AND the extra weight of these tracks (AND a bigger bucket). I'm hoping that's enough, although my contingency plan is to tig some stainless bolts to some of these links, even grinding up some spikes to thread into them. To prep the driveway I usually head out and put about 50 rounds of buckshot into it, then fill those holes with salt pellets, that gives it a swiss cheese bit of grip. Put it this way, I hope I'm right and you're wrong on this one, but if it turns out you were right, I'll film it up. I still have the old chains, they can be modded to work on this buggy if needed.
Tell you what though, I just pulled a monster boulder up the side of the hill with those tracks, damn right they work in the muck that's for sure.
Cheers, hopefully you stick around for future calamity. :)
I’ve never seen someone wipe a grease zerk so clean after greasing their machine. Impressive.
If you don't clean them, they attract dirt, then you might inject it into the works next time you grease up. Well that and OCD. ;)
Tracks are great in mud or any soft terrain, but looking at your laneway with those icy hills I think tire chains would be my first choice
I had chains on my last bobcat, they wouldn't catch. If these slide on me, I've already planned to tig some bolts to some of these links. With a stable base and the added weight I'm hoping for the best. We'll find out this winter for sure one way or another. So far they outworked my UTV on the mud inclines, so I'm optimistic. Thanks for the comment, these are new territory for me. Cheers!!
always appreciate a kill dozer reference
Dude I snuck that in there. Props for actually watching. ;)
I WILL have a followup to these once I've put say 100 hours on them, until then I won't be sure if they were worth the $ or not. NO AFFILIATION with CAMSO, but glad I spent the extra and got HEAVY DUTY tracks.
Got them on an SV185! Unbeatable!
They worked great for me. Need to keep them tight because if you get into wet conditions the tires will spin in the tracks. Also they do wear on the sidewalls.
I'm trying to gauge if they need another notch tightened or not, they seemed to work really well in the talcum powder my property is made out of so far. I'm trying to figure out an easy(!) way to mount them myself, as I'd like to take them off when I'm doing regular work (and they really do tear up the driveway). So far so good though, quite impressed with them and not at all angry at the final bill to get them to me :)
We use a ratchet strap on the under side of each side and pull them together. Only thing we dont like is the traction during winter while plowing. Ours are alot older tho and the part that it rides on is smooth on ours so the newer design might be much better on ice or packed snow.
I will find out how they are on incline snow and ice soon enough I'm sure. With all the damage they did to the asphalt I'm fairly certain they will be okay. That said, when I was looking at them, I did think if they don't work I will simply weld some nuts or barbs to them. I'm hoping that the extra weight + steel links will do the trick, but I will update as they get used. These things cost a fortune, if they don't work for what I -specifially- told them I needed them for, I won't cover for them :)
I'm probably going to get fairly good at taking them off and putting them back on now that they are sized, as I'm going to have to be removing them for summer, they are uber-destructive as is. On the first job I did they were fantastic in the talcum-powder ground we have here, BUT one must have caught a branch and brought it up into one of the hard hydraulic lines, so that's not good, otherwise they exceeded my expectations (the wheels would just have dug into that powder).
How old are yours? Are they standing up fairly well? Mine are already gold from light rain, I assume they go rusty fairly quick, but curious about the strength of their fasteners?
We have had ours for probably 8 or 10 years now and haven't had an issue at all with them. Not even broken bolt. I have been thinking of doing the same thing and welding some 3/8 nuts on them. Looking forward to your updates. Think your gonna love them overall.
@@WillieBHardagan I ended up with 4 extra links, those are the ones I would weld up, and I think I'd TIG some stainless bolts to them, I figure they would rust up pretty quick otherwise, but it would be nice to not "wreck" the whole length of treads. I figure that you would only need 5 or 6 links spread out per side to get that extra grip. Obviously hoping that won't be necessary, but the bottoms of the links ARE fairly smooth.
The only problem with those is it wears the wheel bearings out puts a lot of stress on them
I picked up a wheel bearing kit a couple of months ago, very inexpensive all things considered, but I figure I'll use it for the winter and see if there's any issues in the spring when I take them off. Really easy to get at those hubs so not a terrible job at all. Good trade I figure.
They are bad ass until you get in some muck and a tire is low then pop a tire off the rim, ask me how i know!!! Foam fill the tires and you are set for the life of the tracks, added stability is worth the price imo. It puts it in the middle of being a track and tire machines ride since it eliminates a lot of the bobble eapecially at the pivot point going on a trailer…..btw be careful on metal ramps/trailers or you will go for a ride you wont forget😂
I actually took some steps to mitigate this before I bought them. I bought brand new tires, and had the rims polished on the bead, along with a gasket-like adhesive. I picked tires with a really good sidewall strength rating, AND over-pressured them a bit. They're only really intended for winter, which ice/snow should be fairly forgiving. They'll never be loaded/offloaded, they'll live their life up here in the mountains if I have anything to say about it.
I really didn't want to shell out for airless tires, those are PRICE-EY.
@@tombstoneranch69 my skidsteer had new tires/wheels when i bought it and actually did a trade in for foam filled tires with 100lbs of ballast added to each one when filled plus they were spun to evenly distribute weight in them…..not that its fast enough to notice otherwise anyway….so it wasnt a hard hit at $800 for new tires/wheels filled with ballast. I learned when i borrowed a friends skidsteer with tracks, only place with mud in a drought and i had to find it without knowing the tire was low. I went to turn and pssshhitt tire popped off the rim, luckily i just walked a half mile to my truck drove home to get chains and took my track loader down and toted it back to where tools were but was still a pain in the ass😂. When i started looking for my own skidsteer i said it would never have a flat tire and now it wont, i want some tracks as they do eliminate a lot of the bobble/bouncing though
Why did he not use the loader with the forks to move and stretch out the tracks it look like it would be easer
What, and leave winchy out of the party??
That hurt to watch
I sent some bandaids in the mail!