Excavator Track Shoes
Use and Replacement of the Machine’ s‘ Footwear’
By Steve Sniff
If you were to mention that you are planning to replace your track shoes, most of the world would wonder if you would be going with Nike or Adidas, but our operating engineers know that this job involves something more complex and quite a bit heavier than sporting footwear.
Track shoes are a component of machines that use a track rather than tires to support and move the equipment. Like their footwear equivalents, they are the first point of contact between the
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