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Old 03-24-2021, 09:00 PM
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I would just find the dead chassis of a tracked snow thrower. Unbolt the side plates, and all the guts that drive the tracks. Bolt the side plates to whatever frame is chosen, and then build the drive with a diff, and short chains to each side. Maybe put a disk pinch brake on each side of the hubs to steer.

No sense re-inventing the wheel as there are already tracked machines out there to steal from.

https://www.partstree.com/models/269...rack-drive-22/

Side-plates, hubs, drive asm, tracks, track-drive all the guts needed. Just find one with a thrashed engine, and have at.
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You might just as well make two undercarriages while you're at it.

You know you need and excavator too. And the ring gear is no problem now after the grader build.
Ambush, you're a trouble maker. LOL.
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Then next is the wheel loader right
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Thought about that. But I have all the Cub parts lying around...just itching to be repurposed. Plus, I like the idea of the extra mass and ruggedness of the cast iron stuff...
Understood. I thought you would say that! I'm with you.
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Hmmm, a Cub Cadet Vibratory roller.......
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As I was mowing my lawn today I was thinking about the dozer project. I'm wondering if you might need to put a gear reduction in somewhere. In order to actually use the dozer it will probably require a lot of pressure which in the case of the hydros means more speed. Just thinking out loud here. It might be too fast without a gear reduction.
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As I was mowing my lawn today I was thinking about the dozer project. I'm wondering if you might need to put a gear reduction in somewhere. In order to actually use the dozer it will probably require a lot of pressure which in the case of the hydros means more speed. Just thinking out loud here. It might be too fast without a gear reduction.
The drive sprockets are much smaller than the 23 inch tires, so that provides some reduction. I'm guessing they might be 8 or 10 inch dia, providing a 2.5:1 or 3:1 reduction. That would give a top speed of 3-4 mph? Of course, the hydros are infinitely variable speed.
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The drive sprockets are much smaller than the 23 inch tires, so that provides some reduction. I'm guessing they might be 8 or 10 inch dia, providing a 2.5:1 or 3:1 reduction. That would give a top speed of 3-4 mph? Of course, the hydros are infinitely variable speed.
School me on this a bit please. Do you figure the diameter of the drive sprocket or the outside diameter of the track at the sprocket? Back in the early 70’s when GM owned Terex I worked at the Hudson plant in Ohio as a welder. We actually built our own drive cases and had gear hobs to make our own gears. We had a horizontal broach that was 12 ft long that we broached the inside splines on the spindles. The floor would shake when it pressed the broach tool. Anyway I digress. My point was I was around some pretty neat machines back then but unfortunately I don’t have any experience with the track system of the crawlers.
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Dan Hoefler built this one probably 20 years ago. I expect some of you may have actually seen it at the shows.
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