Snow bug in Leadville Colorado today

[crapaud@mstdn.social]

@atomicbird
It appeared in the version of The Shining that we didn't deserve.

[acsawdey@fosstodon.org]

@atomicbird @DenOfEarth A bobcat is a skid-steer so wouldn't have separate front tracks like this. However in the shadows under the real wheel well you can see they definitely spliced the whole drivetrain/tracks from something in there, you can see the exhaust comes from somewhere forward and the stock bug engine is not there at all.

[kolya@social.cologne]

@atomicbird @schamspeare
In the 1960s Australians used regular VW Beetles in Antarctica. Might work for Colorado too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqr7t7nBIVA

[denofearth@mas.to]

@acsawdey @atomicbird
No reason a Bobcat couldn't have been used to power the rear tracks and leave the front ones bolted to the steering.

And since the Bobcat drive is hydraulic, you could put the engine anywhere, front, back, roof rack, trailer, and just run hydraulic lines to the driven axle.

Or any small excavator, Kubota, Hitachi,
you name it.

[acsawdey@fosstodon.org]

@DenOfEarth @atomicbird OK I found it, it is a Mattracks EZ series conversion meant for an ATV or UTV .. GVW of 2500 lbs is probably plenty to put a bug on it. It might just be a bug shell on top of a UTV chassis. The coil-over struts visible in the wheel wells suggest that.

[atomicbird@mastodon.social]

@acsawdey @DenOfEarth thanks, I thought it was something along those lines but didn’t know exactly what.

[denofearth@mas.to]

@acsawdey @atomicbird
Hard to disagree with you there.

[mvilain@sfba.social]

@atomicbird I had to explain this to our Dutch web developer. The Dutch nickname for the VW in the Netherlands is "Ugly Duckling".

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@atomicbird that tracks.

[axolotl1@gaygeek.social]

@aburka @atomicbird only if it's getting elon money and it's actually safe. Speaking of which I had a weird thought as I was typing this.
Elon: bitch buggy
Unsafe: jank mobile
Both: jacky jankster
None: cybertruck

[mojarrison@techhub.social]

@atomicbird this must be on @weirdonwheels too XD

[janl@narrativ.es]

@atomicbird holy shit

[bimmer@beige.party]

@atomicbird this thing fucks

[dexter@bsd.network]

@atomicbird Nice feature.

[vxo@digipres.club]

@atomicbird this is SO intriguing