New Lamtrac model - LTR5200Q

[NorthernRedneck]

I like it. Just checked out their website and noticed they have a new model out. Looks like they redesigned the cab and mounted the engine behind it instead of in the rear section. Makes rear visibility allot better and also allows allot more room for transporting all the necessary equipment suck as signs and posts on the rear deck. Looks like you could almost fit a krusti up on the rear deck as well.(not that I'd find one further than fifty feet from the entrance to the trail)

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_56m39cmGB8"]YouTube- Lamtrac LTR5200Q[/ame]

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

nice looking unit kind of a bv206 concept i dont think i like the drive sprocket running on the ground, i like the tucker /cat idea of locating it up high and your right about the krusty being right at home on the back they are even the same color.

 

[NorthernRedneck]

I've run a tucker in the past for a few years. The tucker track design has its pluses and minuses. So does the lamtrac. One thing with the design of the lamtrac track design that can give you problems is not the sprocket on the ground but rather the two smaller idlers on the top. Two little idlers holding up the weight of the track and taking allot of the pressure often leads to the idler shaft snapping or the bearings letting go. I have pictures somewhere showing this in the adventures in snowcatting thread.

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

you are right there would be a lot of force aplied to it under pull had to put the plug for krusties in there for Big Al who is thinking about any thing but snow right now.

 

[Blackfoot Tucker]

I think the video is underwhelming.

Pulling a drag on a flat groomed trail. Big deal. Could they possibly make it easier for the machine?

 

[Snowtrac Nome]

yes they could replace the drag with a broke down kristi

 

[NorthernRedneck]

I think the video is underwhelming.

Pulling a drag on a flat groomed trail. Big deal. Could they possibly make it easier for the machine?

I hear ya. I don't know how this machine will perform in the deep stuff. It's basically a larger, heavier version of the ltr 4000 I've run since '99. I know ours will chug through the deep stuff with a full drag of snow with the best of them out there. This machine looks to have the exact same track setup as the smaller version which we have.

Personally, with a machine that size, I would have gone with a bit wider track. I think they went with this track setup so the machine will stay around the 8ft width.