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<blockquote data-quote="pluckem" data-source="post: 146374" data-attributes="member: 843">Valid points on the driveline and maintenance.&nbsp; Adair Argo in Iowa has some custom wheel hubs they call track tuners that allow the center wheels to free spin in a tracked application. They claim this would help with the driveline concern you mentioned above. There are numerous videos out there of Argos climbing in and out of holes in the ice so it seems they could functionally do that. Worst case buy a couple climbing rated ice screws. I believe some are rated over 2000 lbf and easier screwed in to the ice by hand. Hook a winch hook to those and that should cover most of the other worst case situations where the machine needs some assistance getting out of the hole. It looks like Argo has expanded their models recent years. They should take a look at the ice fishing market and see what they could come up with to cater a machine to that. You don't need 8 drive wheels to turn a track, so if they went with a dedicated tracked machine I would think the entire driveline could be simplified in some aspects.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pluckem, post: 146374, member: 843"] Valid points on the driveline and maintenance. Adair Argo in Iowa has some custom wheel hubs they call track tuners that allow the center wheels to free spin in a tracked application. They claim this would help with the driveline concern you mentioned above. There are numerous videos out there of Argos climbing in and out of holes in the ice so it seems they could functionally do that. Worst case buy a couple climbing rated ice screws. I believe some are rated over 2000 lbf and easier screwed in to the ice by hand. Hook a winch hook to those and that should cover most of the other worst case situations where the machine needs some assistance getting out of the hole. It looks like Argo has expanded their models recent years. They should take a look at the ice fishing market and see what they could come up with to cater a machine to that. You don't need 8 drive wheels to turn a track, so if they went with a dedicated tracked machine I would think the entire driveline could be simplified in some aspects. [/QUOTE]

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