Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Development at Roadless

 


These are two pictures of the original Roadless tracked conversions for farm tractors, I guess the large diameter wheels were considered to be important to the concept, but the tractors must have had a tendency to rear up and to pitch fore and aft. Later development- the extended track version- included an extra idler. 



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2 comments:

  1. meddleshopDecember 9, 2021 at 8:22 AM

    I suspect the large wheels were to compensate for the extremely low gear ratio on a wheel tractor with 4'-5' tall wheels. If the sprocket size was similar to more modern crawlers the machine would barely move along even in high gear.

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  2. Mister GDecember 9, 2021 at 7:09 PM

    That makes sense!

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