Tom in mud, tree roots, rocks and just about any rough terrain the steel tracks over rubber tires will bite/dig where a rubber tires machine will not go. Also run up and over a stump with a rubber track and cut it. Then drive steel tracked machine over the same stump and not hurt it.
Will the steel tracks wear? Yes. Are they noisy? yes. Watch out on ice as they will slide. The thing is you can buy new sets for not that much money.
Also I think in tough terrain the steel tracks will out pull/push the rubber ones.
I have a Bobcat 873 That I have a set of Grouser brand tracks for. My oldest son has a JD 323 rubber tracked machine. A few years ago he was clear cutting a 2 acre field that had been let go 40 years ago. A lot of pretty good sized trees. He was using his track hoe to dig the stumps out and then wanted to move the stumps to a burn pile with the JD 323. The ground was muddy. He was having issues climbing up out of a ditch. I took my Bobcat with the steel tracks over and had zero trouble. When we where done we put the buckets off and lined up the face plates. We then tried to push each other. HE could not move me in mud. I could shove him around in the mud. On drier dirt he could push me.
In my opinion as he is just starting out with this business. I would rather have a lower houred name brand machine with rubber tires/steel tracks over a no name import or high houred rubber tired machine. He has more flex ability too.
P.S. Stay away from the 5-10 year old ASV rubber tracked machines. They are a maintenance nightmare. The real old machines are good and the real new ones are too.
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