During the spring when everything is water logged, tracks are the only thing that will go off the road. Later during the summer when things dry up wheels can go most places. But the best hunting areas are where people have a hard time getting to. The place I like to hunt is 36 miles from the highway. To get there you have to cross some of the most gosh offal swamps you ever seen. Muskeg, grass floating on water. Sometimes the water is a foot deep, other times it's 15 feet deep. Those wide tracks can walk across the grass and not break through. Wheels can not, wheels sink. I was lucky I never had any of my rigs break through the vegitation, but I've seen rigs that did.
During the winter is when freight is hauled. Those big rigs are used most of the time, depending on how much freight has to be moved. That is when the Villages, Mines, and towns off the road system are supplied. The oil industry also use these big rigs to get to drilling sites. That way there is no impact on the land. When the snow melts all the tracks are gone.
The Nodwell I once had, the tracks were 48" wide, and 27 feet long. the floor of the cab was six feet off the ground. It had a 3208 Cat Diesel Engine.
