Testing Our New Tracked Recovery Vehicle!

It's called a "Flextrac Nodwell" built in Calgary, Alberta. for offroad oilfield rig moving...the hitch is designed for a large sled trailer that hauls rig/road matting that gets laid down in trailer length sections that attach together to make a temporary road and oil rig pad in muddy terrain.

Ok guys be very careful with those tracks. Don't get on top of a stump or turn on rocks, it will rip the tracks apart. Trust me, I've been around that style of tracks for a long time. These tracks are designed to go over wet unstable ground. Great looking rig. Have fun

Glad to see the nodwell TF360 went to a good home. Worked for company in Cali that had it and cleaned it up for a job that didn’t happen. We got from SE and probably had a digger Derrick on it originally. My dad had a small fleet of the slightly smaller 240s with drills on in 80’s and no they don’t float. Pictures of 3 big wreckers trying to pull one out with ocean tide coming in. Luckily they’re old school so changing fluids isn’t too hard. Engineered weak link when heavily loaded and abused is outer axle shafts. Axles in tf360 are a little light for machine as they were sourced from 240s I believe. Also word of wisdom the steel d sent grouses have a tendency to slide on lowboys and can make an interesting photo op and conversation with local highway patrol. Have fun and anxious to see the build.

Major thumbs up to the production team who edit these videos together. Always amazing work. Thanks Guys !

PowerTraxx 10 or 18H model. It would have had an extending arm for sending workers up to high reach areas like towers in rough lands. What a beautifully perfect machine. Give it a custom workshop/generator hut.

Cant wait to see them try to rescue this when they eventually get it stuck.

When Dave yelled to the bugs “get him boys!” I literally laughed until tears rolled down my face, great editing nice job lads.

This machine is awesome! Can't wait to see how it will do in snow. Have to add a xtra cab for the guys, to keep them from the elements (bugs). This will be fun.

Seller was straight up sporting a Matt's off road hat. What a salesman, he knew what he was doing.

Use it to drag one of your buildings 12 feet over so you can get it down the gap into the back yard.

Those phragemites are tough as hell and will be right back. They spread not only by seed but also by rhizomes below the surface, which when broken up (tracks) will spread. You can weaken them by constant cutting and burning and usually herbicides. Cutting before winter each year helps thin them also. I used to work in habitat mitigation and it would be a million degrees on an amphibious wearing ppe in the middle of an acre of these tall things, especially when blocking the wind/fresh air.

I’m a lineman and we use the same style track machine for our digger Derricks and bucket trucks when it’s snowy or muddy areas. Some do have a high and low range. They are big monster machines

The edits with Sparks in the cab were hilarious. So good when they come out of nowhere and you don't expect it.

It’s a “Doodle Buggy” made in the 70’s by a company in Houston, tx. It was a test well rig. They came to our pasture in the Everglades when I was a teenager. I was so impressed by it I asked the operators about it.

Its definitely a flex track Nodwell. I grew up with these things. My dad built big power transmission lines up in northern Ontario and they had dozens of these rigs with cranes mounted for setting the big 80’ -100’ poles thru the muskeg. (Swamps) up there.

That thing is a dl 532 Harrington. They were used down in Louisiana for laying some pipe. My grandma used to to run one, yours is missing some key components grandma says. It is a actually a 3 speed, there's a valve below the seat, it goes from drag low to drag low to drag even lower. They made them in Patonkbadonka Illinois.

Tracked machines like that are super common in the power line industry, especially in areas that have a lot of snow. They usually have a digger derrick or bucket setup on them. Company I used to work for had probably a half a dozen of those with a few different configurations. They're super cool and I always wanted to drive one!

Obviously you will have to add a big crew cabin behind you somewhere to carry all the boys and equipment .

Can't wait to see what you do with this. Add a cabin with seats for the crew and a boom and winches.

Nice find😊 I would suggest you consider adding a front and rear blade that has down pressure, tilt and extendable booms. You can use these to doze a pathway for your new machine plus a path for the recovered vehicle. Plus anchor you machine if you have a boom winch . Plus aid greatly in self extraction😊🇺🇸