Hi Guys

My Girlfriend and I just moved into are house at the begining of the week and now have a big backyard so thats great for me to run my tanks on.But I have been having a problem today with throwing tracks, and had a bulldog wheel pop off. Are running tanks in the grass is too harsh for them. I have ran them in dirt before but the grass seems to really grab at the tracks.Is there anything I can do to make them run better in grass ?

Thanks

Jeremy

PS - If it were up to me I would rip out the huge garden ( which I think looks ugly ) and throw down soil and run them in there, dont think that would go over too well[&:]

Thanks again

Forgot to mention that all my tanks are HL

Replace all of your grass with golf course bermuda and cut it really short.

It's just the nature of the mechanics that grass will give these tanks a fit. Too many things for the tracks to grab onto and most of the time grass is of a thickness which creates great resistance against something that small trying to maneuver in it.

Most RC vehicles I own have a rougher time in grass than anything else. This goes for my Brushless LST2, Brushless Revo, and Axial SCX10.

Wet clay and mud are the best to run ur tanks on, make sure the tracks are caked with mud afterward, that looks brilliant!

the only thing i seen yet that doesn't slow to a crawl on grass is my baja, nitro buggys, mt's leccy trucks all fail when it comes to the long stuff, i'm sure it would apply to tanks too

That highly depends on the "scale" of the tank of course

fair point, i keep forgetting you guys with your 1/6'ths :lol:

But then again, my 1/16 Tamiya KT doesn't really have much trouble running on "newly mowed" grass and it's certainly fine on wet clay/mud!

hey guys

was out looking around the yard today and see a small area ( 17ft X 21ft ) that maybe could be turned into a small battlefield. Also have been reading the thread on the Texas armor association battlefield and how they went about constructing it.

Jeremy

MY 1:16 heng longs run on anything but do have some difficulty turning on long grass i personally like hard dirt areas with no vegetation ,they run very well and they kick up dust

Snow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVuQZKH4ViY

snow is a bit rarer here than canada

My Bulldog with metal tracks, steel gearboxes, Graupner speed 400's and 1500 BB's in the front for weight absolutely owns the grass. My Panzer 3 with the Asiatam hull sits low enough to run in grass, but those skinny little treads tend to lose traction. Maybe I'll get some of those winter tracks, sharpen the blades and use the Panzer 3 to mow the lawn. Suburbia sucks for tanks.

I need to give those 400's a try. Are you running them with the RX14 or RX18 board? Also are you using a fan on the board as well?

I have got the snow tracks for the PZIII from impakt and they are awesome. They have drastically changed the III's driving characteristics for the better. I feel now I have a much more aggressive tank.

The Graupner 400's made a huge difference. I'll be buying a pair for my PIII soon. The Bulldog has a RX-14 with a fan and I have not had a single hiccup in the past year running it thru the grass and the snow.

LOL...this from the man with a 1/6 King Tiger that weighs a few hundred pounds.

My PzIII and Bulldog both have plastic everything (tracks, gears, sprockets, etc). They do okay on freshly cut grass. But, after a week or so, the PzIII loses traction because the grass lifts its up. The Bulldog does better, but it does get a lot of grass in the tracks. Neither are superb at turning on the grass even when it's freshly mowed.

I must say I'm allways amazed at what some guys try to run these little plastic tanks through and what they expect out of them with their two little dinky battery motors.I guess it speaks volums as to how well they realy can take abuse.Do you understand the princa-epals of a tracked vehicle and what actualy takes place with the tracks when you make a turn.Have you ever seen any type of a real tracked vehicle in the field being used under working conditions making turns and see what is taking place with the tracks,-in rock,sand,dirt,and trees and brush.Tracks have to slide in a turn,and when they do stuff is pushed into them.Tracked vehicles tear the hell out of soft surfaces and even the big heavy equipment don't like getting big rocks,pieces of logs jamed into the rollers and sprockets.Think of these little plastic tanks in the scale they actually are and what you are trying to run them in.


P.S. My answer would be,nice smooth cement garrage floor,sidewalks that are in good condition works well,hard dirt with no sticks,rocks,or pea gravel works great.Just depends on how you value your tank and how long you want it to last.

if you have the right track tension and the right gearing the tanks should be able to run on anything

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Ground < I found out running it on water is no good ! Bloop!

Mine runs pretty good on bark chips, better then on the grass.

Here at our battlefield we use banksand...it is red topsoil with sand in it... also a mix of clay and red dirt...

It packs nice (kinda like a hard surface) but still has a nice loose top for allowing the tracks to slip/slide so you can turn.

We run HL, WSN, MATO, TAMIYA all brands of tanks out here... and tanks have metal or plastic stock tracks... all run well...

We don't really have any pebbles in the dirt... very clean soil... looks great when the dirt/sand mix is falling off the tracks or falling out from between the track links!

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Ive found the best surface to run over is enemy infantry

A modified tank is frustrating to run through grass. They run through it because of the added weight, not over it like a lightweight stocker.

The Pershing and Walker because of their rear sprocket act like lawnmowers, sprockets quickly loaded with blades and roots. This can be alleviated by adding weight to the front increasing traction across the treads. Still it's better to run in dirt of some kind, more realistic and fun too.

If you have enough space, mark off an area that won't get you divorced and lay plastic down. Then go to a nursery or soil company and check out what kind of dirt they're selling. A couple truck loads of whatever you pick should do the trick, don't be afraid to haggle on the price.

if you upgrade to the RX-18 board you shouldhave no problem on any surface

All of mine run over anything.

Except water.

thanks for the tips guys. And I did find a small area in the yard that I have started to make a battlefield ( will start a thread in coming days to show pics ) I have sprayed roundup on the grass and will be looking at dirt in the next few days. I will post pics when I have more to show other then dead grass[&:]