This track has a number of new Larry Lugs installed, visible along the top and also the bottom between the bogie wheels. A previously installed Larry Lug is also visible. Without Larry Lugs this track would have been discarded.

Drive lug with extensive degradation, this lug is now useless. The lug beside it is showing signs of damage due to the additional load placed on it. The damaged lug needs to be replaced immediately and the other needs to be monitored for signs of further deterioration.

Complete Drive lug delamination. The lug has been completely torn away exposing the Kevlar belt below. The lugs either side are showing extensive damage due to the increased load. Larry Lugs can still be successfully fitted even with this amount of damage. In this case both lugs either side should be replaced as well

Drive lug showing signs of delamination and damage. This lug should be replaced with a Larry Lug soon to avoid costly on job failure and to avoid damage to the lugs either side

This track laid in a yard (pic 5) for 12 months until 16 Larry Lugs were fitted for a cost of $880. It is back on a machine again

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of tracks lay idle because of damaged drive lugs. the repaired track in Pic 4 came from this pile of tracks.

Track with a single Larry Lug fitted

Track with multiple Larry Lugs fitted

Save thousands of dollars and add thousands of hours to your tracks with Larry Lugs

Typically it starts with one damaged lug, the lug breaks off and extra strain is placed on the lugs either side, eventually these fail.

With the high price of a entire new track, you are determined to get as many hours out of the damaged track as you can, so you keep running it, destroying more lugs and potentially damaging your machine. The machine runs less efficiently, and then, mid way through the job the track fails.

Now you are stuck with an unfinished job, an irritated customer, an out of service machine and thousands of dollars for a new track.

Larry Lug Service Plan

With Larry Lugs you could have avoided all this. Larry Lugs allow you to quickly replace damaged lugs before they fail completely. By regularly inspecting your tracks you can identify potential lug failures before they occur.

Every few hundred hours, or with any regular maintenance undertaken, you should inspect all the lugs on your tracks.

There are two types of lug damage, Lug Degradation (pic 1), where the lug is basically chewed away from the top down, and Lug Delamination (Pic 2) where the lug is torn away from the track completely.

Lug Degradation is easily spotted and can start with a small chunk torn out as shown on the second lug in Pic 1 and gradually increases until the lug is useless, or it can occur suddenly when a substantial amount of the lug is torn off.

Lug Delamination can be more difficult to spot in the early stages. As shown in Pic 3 cracks around base of the lug indicate the start of lug delamination.

Its helpful to have a small torch to highlight the base of the lug. If cracks are spotted around the base of the lug, consideration needs to be given to replacing it, at the very least monitor the lug for further deterioration.

Now, with Larry Lugs and regular track inspection you can get potentially thousands of more hours out of your tracks, reduce the likelihood of on job track failure, reduce machine downtime and save thousands of dollars.

Larry Lug Installation

As shown here, installation of Larry Lugs is straight forward.

The lugs are simply bolted onto the track. Once any remnants of the old lug is removed, holes are drilled using the machine specific template and logs bolted on.

A single lug can be replaced in as little as 10 minutes, even with the track still on the machine.

For multiple lug replacement it is recommended that the track is removed

Do the Sums - Save Money and Time with Larry Lugs

Generally drive lug loss starts to happens at between 400 ‐ 900 hrs, depending on conditions and use. With a rapid succession from a single lug to multiple lug failures. Larry Lugs can last up to thousands of hours, depending on the conditions. Obviously as with all components and wear parts, the more abrasive the environment the harder the wear. Sand, grit, gravel and the like can all accelerate wear on Larry Lugs, proper regular undercarriage maintenance and cleaning will assist in realising the full life potential of Larry Lugs...

Once more then 5 or so lugs are missing track performance is seriously compromised and full track replacement needs to be considered. At this stage if you compare the cost of buying a new track to replacing the damaged lugs with Larry Lugs, the Larry Lugs option is considerably cheaper.

Based on the average price of a Larry Lug price as per a standard 20 Lug pack, you can have the track fixed for around $275, saving many times this amount compared to a new track. Also, with Larry Lugs on hand this repair can be done quickly and have you back on the job sooner.

Replace an entire track full of lugs and still save money

If at 1200 hours you replaced all the lugs on a track with Larry Lugs, you would be much more likely to realise the full 3000 hour tread life of your tracks, and it would be cheaper then a brand new track.

Whichever way you look it at, Larry Lugs will save you money, save you time and give you peace of mind. When you hear that lug pop half way through a job, no longer do you need to weigh up the cost of a brand new track against the risk of running a damaged track for as long as you can to get some value out of it. Larry Lugs are quick and simple to fit and really will improve the running cost of your machine.