Sherp Pro- took delivery this week. Had it at the Houston Pipeliners ClayShoot yesterday. Good times and a lot of fun. Everyone seemed to want a ride, especially through the pond.
Seems like those big tires would float over the mud rather than sink into it. The heaviest part of the rig looks like the wheels.aggieforester05 said:
What are you going to use it for? No doubt they're awesome vehicles, but seems like they'd rut up your land really bad.
Ever driven a skid steer? It's not so much the tires sinking but the drive method. They twist when turning and that tends to destroy vegetation. You can mitigate it some by taking the widest turns possible. The lack of weight of this will definitely help versus a skid steer.EMY92 said:Seems like those big tires would float over the mud rather than sink into it. The heaviest part of the rig looks like the wheels.aggieforester05 said:
What are you going to use it for? No doubt they're awesome vehicles, but seems like they'd rut up your land really bad.
Had a project in the South Louisiana swamp a few years ago that we could have used one of these on91poohah said:
Just depends on how you drive it and what conditions you drive it in. You can adjust the tire pressure for different surfaces, so being mindful of that helps a lot. It's a surprisingly light weight vehicle, and the large footprint of the tires spreads that weight out. Normal driving doesn't dig or rut or mess up the land at all. I'm sure in wet conditions it will leave some tracks, but that's part of the fun. But yes, if you crank a sharp turn and spin it around on soft ground you can tear up a yard real quick.
As far as uses, the recreational side seems awesome- Hunting, fishing, rock crawling, off-roading, climbing, mudding and just cruising around in the pasture or on the ranch are all ways I will use it. From a work standpoint, I rent and sell land survey equipment, and will rent it out for commercial projects to some of our customers. They need it for pipeline work, utility line maintenance, construction jobs and other needs where having a vehicle that can go anywhere is useful.
Turo?Aggietaco said:
It's for rent, win-win!
91poohah said:
It's measured in mmHg, or millimeters of mercury
We used a combination of swamp buggies and air boats. Had several crews threaten to quit over that job. When I say it was in the swamp, it was in the swamp.91poohah said:
Survey work in the swamp can suck. Air boats, canoes, swamp buggy, Jeeps, MarshMasters, Argos... None are perfect and none really get the job done easily. We have been pleased with the reception to the Seafloor product line for water surveys, but again, not a perfect solution for swamp work. It's a big financial step up to a Sherp, but we are hoping this will be a decent solution for some projects, and we can rent or sell a few of them.
You survey in the Tyler area, right? Do you know James over at Halo Surveying? He recently used one of our boats for a job down in Houston on one of the bayous.