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Tracked Utility Vehicle
A heavy duty new tracked vehicle from ASV was shown for the first time at the recent International Lawn, Garden and Power Equipment Expo in Louisville, Ky. The ASV Scout, with its 4,000-lb. bed capacity and 5,000-lb. towing capacity, is designed for much heavier work than most utility vehicles. With front and rear 16 g
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Tracked Utility Vehicle TRACTORS Miscellaneous 30-6-32 A heavy duty new tracked vehicle from ASV was shown for the first time at the recent International Lawn, Garden and Power Equipment Expo in Louisville, Ky. The ASV Scout, with its 4,000-lb. bed capacity and 5,000-lb. towing capacity, is designed for much heavier work than most utility vehicles. With front and rear 16 gpm, 3000-psi auxiliary hydraulics, there are many ways the new rig can be used.
The 9,000-lb. Scout could easily pull a small disc to prepare ground for wildlife plots. It could also carry a hydraulic-powered broadcast seeder and the seed to plant it. "One customer seeds down new pipelines and told me it was his dream machine," relates Lemke. "He said it'll carry four times the seed of his existing utility vehicle."
The 50 hp Perkins diesel engine provides plenty of power for the $25,000 (base price) machine. The Scout is built for rough conditions with its heavy duty brush catcher integrated into the roll bars. At the same time, it leaves a light footprint, in fact less of a footprint than a man on foot, with its 2.5-psi pressure on the ground under the tracks.
The two suspended rubber tracks float over rough ground or several feet of snow and handles soft soils without ripping them up. The two tracks are each powered by separate hydrostatic drives. When the vehicle turns, the inside track stops entirely, giving the 117-in. long Scout a 64-in. turning radius.
Controls are simple with low, high and reverse and a single foot pedal to control them. No brakes are needed with the hydrostatic drive, and the Scout has top speeds of 6 1/2 mph in low or 11 1/2 mph in high.
"Equipped with a blade, the Scout is ideal for pushing snow," says Lemke."
"It'll also work great carrying everything from hay bales to fire fighting equipment. The sky is the limit."
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, ASV, Inc., 840 Lily Lane, Grand Rapids, Minn. 55744 (ph 218 327-3434; toll free 800 346-5954; fax 218 326-5291; blemke@asvi.com; www.asvi.com).
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