Tom HarringtonSnow bug in Leadville Colorado today
Den of Earth@atomicbird
If it's doing that on a stock engine
that's quite the accomplishment.
And if someone managed to shoehorn a Bobcat diesel in there with all the hydraulics, that's a whole 'nother level of impressive.
@DenOfEarth It’s lifted enough that I suspect they mounted a Beetle body on something like a bobcat
Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.@atomicbird @DenOfEarth A bobcat is a skid-steer so wouldn't have separate front tracks like this. However in the shadows under the real wheel well you can see they definitely spliced the whole drivetrain/tracks from something in there, you can see the exhaust comes from somewhere forward and the stock bug engine is not there at all.
@acsawdey @atomicbird
No reason a Bobcat couldn't have been used to power the rear tracks and leave the front ones bolted to the steering.
And since the Bobcat drive is hydraulic, you could put the engine anywhere, front, back, roof rack, trailer, and just run hydraulic lines to the driven axle.
Or any small excavator, Kubota, Hitachi,
you name it.
@DenOfEarth @atomicbird OK I found it, it is a Mattracks EZ series conversion meant for an ATV or UTV .. GVW of 2500 lbs is probably plenty to put a bug on it. It might just be a bug shell on top of a UTV chassis. The coil-over struts visible in the wheel wells suggest that.
@acsawdey @DenOfEarth thanks, I thought it was something along those lines but didn’t know exactly what.