Continuous track or tracked treads are a system of vehicle propulsion used in tracked vehicles, running on a continuous band of treads or track plates driven by two or more wheels. The large surface a
Continuous tracks on a bulldozer
An agricultural tractor with rubber tracks, mitigating soil compaction
A Russian tracked vehicle designed to operate on snow and swamps
A British Army Challenger 1 tank
A snowcat is an enclosed-cab, truck-sized, fully tracked vehicle designed to travel over snow. Major manufacturers are PistenBully, Prinoth, and Tucker.
Continuous track
…for they were the direct ancestors of the 'tanks' in France." In time, however, a wide array of vehicles were developed for snow and ice, including ski slope grooming machines, snowmobiles, and countless commercial and military vehicles. Continuous track was first applied to a military vehicle on the British prototype tank…
The wide tracks of this 1991 Logan snowcat reduce the ground pressure and improve grip but render it vulnerable to bumps
A PistenBully 600 working in 2006
An old Ratrac snowcat on the Grimmialp in Switzerland in 2006
A Tucker Sno-Cat at the Rothera Research Station, Antarctica