Category: Spare Parts

Track links assembly: the Resistant Heart of Your Tracked Vehicle’s Undercarriage

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In the world of earthmoving machinery, efficiency and reliability are fundamental pillars. Every undercarriage component plays a crucial role, and among them, track links assembly represent the beating heart, ensuring movement, traction, and stability. Relying on robust and high-performing undercarriage spare parts is essential for those operating in the undercarriage spare parts sector.

Why are Track Links Assembly Indispensable?

They are designed to withstand high loads and operate in often hostile environments, such as construction sites, quarries, or agricultural terrains. Their complex structure, composed of links, pins, bushings, and rollers, works in perfect synchrony to:

  • Ensure traction: They allow the vehicle to move on different surfaces, even the most challenging ones, distributing weight and ensuring optimal grip.
  • Support the machine’s weight: They support the entire structure of the vehicle, absorbing stresses during work.
  • Ensure stability: They help maintain the balance of the excavator or bulldozer, which is fundamental for precise and safe operations.

Key Components and Their Importance

Track Group are a complex system, but understanding how their main components work together will help you recognize the value of a quality spare part. Each element has a specific and fundamental role in the efficiency and durability of your vehicle’s undercarriage.

  • Links (Pads): These are the elements that come into direct contact with the ground and provide traction. Their geometry and material are designed to maximize grip and wear resistance.
  • Pins and Bushings: These elements form the “backbone” of the chain, connecting the links to each other. They must resist constant shear and friction forces. Their coupling precision is fundamental for the durability of the entire track chain.
  • Rollers: They support the machine’s weight and guide the chain, allowing smooth sliding along the undercarriage frame.

The Importance of Quality and Maintenance

A superior quality track group translates into:

  • Longer operational life: Fewer machine downtimes and more useful life of the undercarriage.
  • Lower management costs: Reduction of expenses for frequent replacements and extraordinary maintenance interventions.
  • Maximum efficiency and productivity: The vehicle operates at its best capacity, without slowdowns due to undercarriage problems.

Understanding the interaction between these components is fundamental to appreciating why the choice of quality undercarriage spare parts, such as our excavator chains, is an investment that pays off in terms of performance and operational durability.

Sampierana UC Spare Parts: Your Support for Undercarriage Spare Parts

Sampierana UC Spare Parts offers track group under the Sampierana and Berco brands. In both cases, we work to provide the highest quality materials. Our experience in the sector, gained over years of collaboration with earthmoving professionals, allows us to select products that guarantee lasting and valuable performance.

Whether it’s an excavator, a bulldozer, or another tracked machine, choosing the right undercarriage spare part means investing in the continuity and efficiency of your work. We are here to support you, with the professionalism and attention that distinguish us, helping you find the most suitable solution for your needs

Rubber track shoes and pads: products from the Sampierana U/C Spare Parts line

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Sampierana’s rubber products are suitable for tracked machines up to 20 tons and are divided into three types:

  • Bolt-on rubber pads, with bolt-on fastening to the track shoe;
  • Clip-on rubber pads, with lateral fastening to the track shoe;
  • Rubber track shoes like the Road-Liner/Geogrip models;
Rubber Pads Sampierana

The main features are:

  • Components that are easy to assemble and disassemble, even on the job site, especially the Clip-on type
  • Long-lasting and high-performance rubber compound;
  • Benefit from both the strength of the steel chain and the properties of the rubber;
  • Individual vulcanization and metal core

What advantages do rubber pads and track shoes offer?

  • Traction and machine stability;
  • Prevention of damage to “delicate” surfaces such as concrete or similar floors, asphalt roads, and yards
  • Protection for the steel tracks applied to the machine;
  • Reduction of vibrations;
  • Noise reduction and consequently quieter operation, benefiting the operator;

Bolt-on rubber pads

They are installed on steel shoes bolted to the machine’s iron track. They are fixed by tightening a nut on threaded pins located on the back of the pads.

Their width is identical to that of the steel shoe, which allows the machine to remain within its dimensions and maintain its maximum width, avoiding problems during transport and use in tight spaces limited by walls and curbs

This is the most common type and is recommended for long-term work, despite being more complex and slower to assemble and replace compared to the CLIP-ON type.

Clip-on rubber pads Clip-on rubber pads

They are installed on steel shoes without external holes for BOLT-ON pad application. Application is via lateral clips, one fixed and one “mobile” with two fixing screws.This significantly reduces application and assembly time.

It is advantageous for short-term use due to the speed of assembly and disassembly.

ROAD-LINER/GEOGRIP rubber track shoes

GEOGRIP or ROAD Liner track shoes are formed by a metal steel part coated with a layer of rubber integrated through a fusion process.

They completely replace the steel shoe, as they are directly positioned on the chain via the four fixing screws, thus replacing the steel shoe.

They are ideal when the priority is protecting the surface of use and when a machine must operate on roads and company yards. However, they are not recommended if the machine must operate on abrasive surfaces with rubble and debris.

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Sampierana U/C Spare Parts rubber tracks: strength and quality

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In our warehouse located in Modena, we have a large supply of spare parts, including rubber tracks, critical components for construction equipment.

Three keywords: steel cables, metal core, compound.

Thanks to 30 years of experience in the field and strong cooperation with our suppliers, we have developed a top-quality product with high-level performance on all types of applications.

Three are the strengths of our rubber tracks:

  • Steel cables;.
  • Metal inserts;.
  • Rubber compound.

Steel cables

The diameter of the inner cables has been increased: this ensures high strength and strong traction. The formula adopted in production ensures good bonding of the steel cable with the rubber.

Metal inserts

The quality of the metal inserts, made by forging, has been improved. In this way, we achieved greater product strength and, in addition, the risk of lateral deformation of the rubber track is prevented.

Rubber compound

We worked on a compound optimization process, ensuring an increased percentage of natural rubber compared to the synthetic component and ultra-thick carcass.

What are the differences between rubber and iron tracks?

Sampierana U/C Spare Parts offers within the spare parts catalog two types of tracks: rubber and iron.

The choice of a vehicle equipped with a rubber track depends on the type of work and the type of terrain on which the vehicle will have to work.

In most cases, on mini-excavators class 1-5 ton, in 70% of cases, the choice falls to the rubber product. As the weight class of the machine increases, this percentage tends to reverse and the steel carriage version is preferred.

The choice to prefer rubber track on mini-excavators also depends on other factors:

  • the rubber product offers greater traction and superior maneuverability than iron tracks;
  • Rubber-made tracks are quieter and more comfortable to use.

In any case, the reason that most affects the choice of a rubber or iron track is related to the surface and type of use.

Application of rubber tracks

What are the types of construction equipment on which they are applied?

  • Mini excavators;
  • Excavators;
  • Skid Loaders;
  • Loaders;
  • Cranes and working platforms;
  • Mobile platforms;
  • Farm tractors;
  • Combine harvesters.

To get more information about Sampierana U/C Spare Parts contact our team.