Howdie awesome thanks for sharing your project with us keep them coming ya got this mighty fine work Sir wanting to make tracks for my wooden Bulldozer track and thers lots out ther but yours gives better way of showing us how to make them 🧢 hats off Sir ther hard to make when your hands dont work to good Arthritis and age count for alot of it and l,m mecnec not woodsman so thank you from Canada 🇨🇦 SK later keep them coming your ideas farmer 😊
Fascinating video. It's actually quite similar to how I've been making my tracks. I'm in the process (a lengthy process, been going about 2 years off and on so far) of making a model Liebherr 9800 mining excavator in wood for my son. Have the tracks finished and part way through the running gear. Do you have any issues with strength of the links since the grain direction is perpendicular to the tension load? For my links, I made a Y shape, with the grain running parallel to the tracks. Once the tread is glued on, this is very robust (so far). Making the Y shapes proved to be quite tedious though, but I got through it eventually by making jigs to hold batches in various stages of completion for cutting on the table saw. Having made a set of tracks myself only increases my appreciation of your patience and attention to accuracy and detail that is necessary to make these. It's very satisfying to get them finished though.
Thank you. I haven’t had any issues with track links breaking yet. I do put a tensioner on my tracks to let them expand and contract as wood never stops moving. I use a spring in the same way the real machine keeps tension with grease and a ram.
