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| The track machine is going to do better in wet conditions, period (when comparing apples to apples). A skid steer style track machine (Challenger and Deere) has a disadvantage over the QuadTrac when it comes to mud, but if you know better than to crank the wheel of a Challenger or a Deere when you get into a sticky situation, you'll do just fine.
Now if you take an MT800, put 18" tracks on it, ballast it to 60,000, and try to run next to a 4 wheel drive with floats and no weight in mud, you will have a different outcome...... With 30" or 36" tracks, you will easily be in the field long before anyone with a comparable 4 wheel drive.
Keep a track machine ballasted properly, and you'll out pull a 4 wheel drive in most real world conditions as well. You won't see wheel hop in a track machine as you do in that 4 wheel drive. And there are studies that show a pretty decent yield advantage due to less compaction from track machines. One from Iowa state shows 9 bu/a. | |
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John Deere 9R-track vs. wheel
