Versatile’s newest addition | High horsepower, four-tracked tractor to be released this fall
Versatile has a new tracked tractor, the Delta Track.
The company, which hasn’t yet officially announced the high-horsepower, four-tracked tractor, released it from field testing at recent private event in Palm Springs, California, for its dealers.
The new DT450, DT500 and DT550 articulated tractors feature Camoplast tracks, a new tractor chassis and the shared, heavily sloped, hood of the latest Versatile power units that dealers saw. Officially, the company says the new machines will be released to the industry later this year.
The new tractors share a common Cummins QSX 15 litre engine, the same one found in the HHT435 to 575 h.p. wheeled tractors.
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Getting power to the drives is the job of a Cat TA22 power shift transmission. It too is common, although optional, on the big, articulated Versatile four-wheel drives and has 16 forward and four reverse gearings.
The Camoplast tracks will be available in 30 and 36 inch widths and turned by a nearly 38 inch drive wheel.
The double-axis, oscillation, bogie suspension allows the machine’s bogies to rotate fore and aft and from side to side. This ensures the track remains flat and allows the drives and machine some wiggle room for chassis roll and a reduction in jarring motions to the rest of the machine. It is set offset, out of the direct line of the drive axle, to reduce vibration to the chassis.
Large, twin 14 inch polyurethane mid-rollers control track flex.
The tractors will travel at up to 28 m.p.h. in road gear.
They will have limited availability from dealers this summer, with full product release in the fall, according to dealers who attended the pre-launch event.
