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Rear drive is more commonly used for packaging reasons that's it. Front drive is the preferred way to drive caterpillar tracks. That is the reason the vast majority of tracked vehicles through out history have been front sprocket drives. Even today the only rear drive caterpillar tracked vehicles in the U.S army are the MBT chassis's, and this was due to packaging, everything else is front sprocket drive. And this is not just for the U.S but for every body.
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They will both work quite well if the front drive sprocket is higher allowing the slack to hang down . I drive a snowcat ( rear drive ) in the winter and it is an amazing machine for pushing huge amounts of snow but will back blade only a fraction without skipping on the drives as the slack is concentrated in a very small area between the drive sprocket and the ground .
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Don't mean to be whipping a dead horse, but can you show me a Caterpillar, John Deere, International Harvester, Allis Chalmers, Fiat, Dresser, Mitsubishi, et al crawler, that has front sprocket drive? The law of physics states; "It is much easier to pull rope than to push it". Even excavators and tracked cranes that have hydro-static drives, where the location of the sprockets could be moot, they are still on the rear.
In cranes and other low speed equipment their is is no advantage to driving the rear or the front except in track clearing for mud as they have no suspension. The majority of tracked vehicles that operate at other single digit speeds are front drive. The exception being modern MBT's which are rear drive for packaging and armour protection and weight distribution reasons, and even the then there are exceptions such as the Merkva.
Other than MBT's and low speed equipment you are hard pressed to find rear driven tracked vehicles.
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Here is an unusual Marmon-Herrington custom F1 for sale locally.
Check out what looks to be 5-lug wheels? The cab says F1, but the front fenders appear to be F2-and up.
Not sure if this is a custom coach built rig, or what.
https://maine.craigslist.org/grd/d/s...896158494.html
Check out what looks to be 5-lug wheels? The cab says F1, but the front fenders appear to be F2-and up.
Not sure if this is a custom coach built rig, or what.
https://maine.craigslist.org/grd/d/s...896158494.html
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