Mclaren over the tire tracks- How to install
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- It took me awhile to find just the right Over the Tire Tracks (OTT) for my bobcat. After a lot of research I decided to try McLaren tracks! I will never get stuck in the loose dirt and or mud again. This video shows you how to install these tracks on my bobcat. Check out my other video that took place two days later, when I blew the tire out and how I dealt that deep in the woods. Heck you might as well just subscrible to this channel if you want to follow my bobcat/ skidsteer adventures. I'm installing a backup camera next.
I've never turned the adjuster on a crescent wrench the correct direction either!!
I've got a Barko/Bobcat 1080. It is a big machine (21,000lbs including a Timbco saw head) with 15x19 tires and big tracks. That tensioner looks like a great idea, I've put the tracks on many times without one and it is a job and a half. The tracks sure help avoid getting stuck but in mud it is still easy to bury it.
You had a machine there with forks on.. It would have made it a lot easier to wrestle those tracks around with the machine when taking them off the pallet and placing them out on the ground.. Also I hear you start your machine with the throttle part way open.. It is easier on the engine to start it at idle giving it time to get oil pressure rather than starting it at a rev.. It is also easier on the machine to stop it at idle rather then shut it off at high idle.. It is also a good idea to idle the machine before getting off of it.. I also have a set of McLaren tracks.. I have a set of Grouser tracks for my other machine a 325 John Deere, I had prior to this one, a 330G John Deere.. The Grouser tracks had bushings in the dog bones where the McLaren tracks do not.. This will make a bigger rebuild cost, rather than replacing the bushings in the Grouser tracks.. I decided on the McLaren tracks because I am retired and will probable not wear these out in my time left on this earth.. My Grouser tracks, I just rebuilt the both of them, and they fit 12X16.5 tires.. I did not let them go when I traded my 325 machine in on this 330G.. You need to get the cover back on your machine cuz you are going to have the belly full of mud.. I know you will enjoy these tracks on your machine..
Lol was looking at adding these to my 763 I've not long had. Didn't look to bad to fit, thanks for the walk through
Thanks Jon, they sure do work great, but they tear up a wet yard like crazy!
My first investment before i get tracks for my skidsteer will be the solid tires, im used to my track loader and never being concerned about it so i will eliminate that as a problem first lol
I am sure you will be sorry you put solid tires on your machine.. They ride stiff and are hard on the machine and the operator.. Also if you get a big rock inside the track, you may break something with the solid tires as there is not the give as is with the air filled tire..
should buy some new footplate cleanout covers since you can afford new tracks that cost more than the bobcat itself.
Take a rope run it over tires, like the way tracks go. Then stretch it out and place along tracks. Shorten tracks to that length. Saves a lot of cussing.
Any problems with the tires spinning, slipping in the tracks??
I bought high flotation tracks for my Bobcat S300. Everything was great until it snowed. They compacted the snow inside the track pads and very quickly the tracks where so tight that the wheels could not turn. How are yours in the snow?
That is a trait with tracks and warm snow.. I had the same trouble with my tracks and had to take them off as the snow was actually tearing up the sidewalls of my tires..
impact would make light work
Much quicker using a short ratchet strap
…then I put the Bobcat in reverse and pushed on the throttle and went backwards.
If you get stuck…you have a bucket. Use it to get yourself out.
Invest in an impact.
Lol..hobby farmer.
That’s an adjustable wrench, not a crescent.
We always call it a crescent wrench.
The American tool company Crescent founder was the original inventor of the adjustable wrench in Sweden. That is where the name Crescent Wrench comes from.