I ordered snow treads to help out with the slope mowing, and traction on the hills is def better than the turf tracks. There is some damage to the grass, especially where Yarbo does a 15 point turn (even on Smart Turn), so if you are looking for a golf course job, this is not for you.
So better on hills, with a little grass damage…for pastures it’s perfect!
Long term, there could even be a third rubber track offered, pasture track. It would be a little more agressive than the turf treads, but not do as much damage as the snow treads.
Thanks so much for sharing your feedback and suggestion, Tim. We’re glad to hear the snow treads are helping with slope performance, and we understand your point about the trade-off with grass wear. We’ll definitely pass your idea about a potential “pasture track” to our product team for further consideration.
Well it was a good idea for a day! The tracks came off twice today, first time I did a field repair on a hill (difficult) and second time put the tractor to the rescue. I did take the adjustment to maximum tightness, against the stop, and noticed the tracks were pretty loose. I imagine them to be tighter when you are dealing with freezing temperatures.
So my question is …is there any way to make the adjustment slide a bit further, it seems like there is another 4-5mm to go on the slide slots??
Seen a few people attempt this (using winter tracks on the lawn) and all of them ended up this way or with excessive damage to the lawn. Can’t say I would recommend this. I do not believe there is a supported way to get more tension on the tracks. The tensioner once fully extended is in the correct position for both types of tracks.
Oh I’ll except the slight pasture grass damage for better slope coverage…I am not mowing a golf course. But then…if you are mowing a golf course, you might not want a tracked machine at all!!
I will switch back to turf tracks until a way is figured to get more adjustment on the tracks. I think that the tracks may stretch and run out of adjustment before they actually wear out from running on grass.
Tim
This doesn’t help with the tension issue, but I think the 2023s had some “summer inserts” for the snow tracks that you’d screw in between each paddle? They were basically standoffs that’d reduce the depth.
Dunno if those are still available.
Other option would be to throw four or five (very shallow) cleats onto your summer treads. Some old furring strips would probably work, lol. And as we’ve seen, it wouldn’t take many.
I’m getting a lot of slippage with the lawn tracks. The mower gets stuck repeatedly on a slightly muddy vineyard slope running between rows of grapes. Has anyone come up with a good solution? The mower works fine in other spots.
Do you have pictures you could share? Might be helpful to see if anyone can come up with something other than adding some weight to the rear of the core. Please share your app plan preview (or when it’s stuck there during a plan). Might be some tweaks we can do to the plan itself or adjust for that area.
Could you please share a bit more detail, as Bryan suggested? With some additional information about the slope, surface conditions, and settings you’re using, we can better understand the situation and see if there are any recommendations we can provide.
In the map, it’s in the extra wide no-go zone. Created that to try and complete mowing but it just hit other muddy areas. Haven’t tested the last few days due to rain.
Can you post previews of those areas routes and place an X (or several) where it’s having issues? Was discussing this with a friend and we think you may want to consider using templated NGZ’s. This should let you straighten out the lines. It’s possible it’s trying to maneuver around those bump outs and nooks in the mapped NGZ’s and causing track slippage. We assume those rows are crowned in the center. Is it high centering at all? You could place the templates over the mapped ones and turn the mapped ones off and see how it affects the routing. Dead ends would potentially be another way to accomplish the straight line mows.
