RUBBER TRACKS FOR MACHINERY AND VEHICLES IN FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE

In agriculture and forestry it is important to increase mobility and lower the ground pressure to avoid soil compaction and damages to the ground. Rubber tracks have flexible sides which give a much more lenient behavior to the ground than steel tracks. A special track system, the twin-bogie with rubber tracks, evens out obstacles and increases the mobility on all types of surfaces. This system together with a variation of vertically adjustable bogies has a big potential in the military sector. A light and thin rubber track reduces soil compaction in agriculture and is very useful in all ecologically sensitive areas.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This article is from the Proceedings of the International Conference on the Performance of Off-Road Vehicles and Machines (8th), Volume 3, held at Cambridge, England on August 5-11, 1984. NTIS AD-A150 653, pp1273-1280.
• Corporate Authors:

  Skega, AB

  Ersmark,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Mickelson, P I
• Publication Date: 1984-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Farm vehicles; Forestry; Rubber; Tracked vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Agricultural vehicles
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Vehicles and Equipment; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00457146
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1987 12:00AM