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.

Ambush, you're a trouble maker. LOL.

Then next is the wheel loader right

Understood. I thought you would say that! I'm with you.

Hmmm, a Cub Cadet Vibratory roller....... :bigthink:

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.

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.

Dan Hoefler built this one probably 20 years ago. I expect some of you may have actually seen it at the shows.