I recently purchased an 825 bobcat with about 6k hours and a fresh rebuilt perkins motor. It shows some use, but works very good. I live on a hobby farm and use it for cleaning barns, moving hay, and plan on using it on a fairly large dike building project around my property. The one thing it needs is tires. The tires on it are very worn. I really like the worn tires for driving around my yard because it is easy on the lawn, but It won't work well this winter (in MN) or in the mud working on the dike. My plan was to find a used set of rims and then put new tires on it, that way I could switch back to the bald tires for the times when I need to work on my yard and don't want to tear it up. I figured with a little shopping I could pull that off for about $800. I recently discovered someone fairly close to me selling a set of Loegering steel pad tracks that have little use on them that are for the size tires I have. I think I could get the tracks for about the same cost as a second set of rims and tires. Does this seem like a good idea? Are tracks a lot of headache that isn't worth it? Do I need to worry about extra strain on the 825? Or, will they be able to tread lightly AND give me the traction I want? I would really appreciate the opinions of those who have more experience. This is the first bobcat I have owned, and I do not work in an industry that uses such equipment, so I am a newbie in this area. I am not looking to contract out, just want the best bang for the buck on my hobby farm. thanks, Matt in MN