Rubber Pads

Leach Lewis Rubber Tracks sell various different types of rubber pads, to cater for every application.

Rubber pads allow you to keep a steel tracked machine and benefit from the advantages that this brings, especially on tough terrains, but also convert the machine over to the flexibility of rubber without the need to physically change the tracks, in order to protect road surfaces for example.

Clip-on pads: Extremely versatile, these pads are quickly attached and detached to the steel track, via clips at either end of the pad. They are useful if your steel tracks do not have pre-drilled bolt holes, and provide excellent noise and impact reduction on surfaces.

Bolt-on pads: Whilst the clip-on pads have obvious advantages, bolt-on pads have additional benefits, especially in environments where an excavator is working close up against obstacles which would damage overhanging ends that are part of a clip-on pad – for example working close to railway lines. Bolt-on pads are attached to the grouser plate with bolts on the bottom of the pad and fixed to pre-drilled holes.

City pads: These pads differ from the other two as they are bolted directly onto the track chain in the same way that a steel track pad would go on. They can also be recoated when the rubber has been worn.