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A demolition and compaction track shoe and assembly for a crawler vehicle track includes a central opening and diagonally oriented demolition blades protruding sufficiently outwardly to be primarily useful in demolishing large rocks, home appliances, and similar materials of a type generally encount

A demolition and compaction track shoe and assembly for a crawler vehicle track includes a central opening and diagonally oriented demolition blades protruding sufficiently outwardly to be primarily useful in demolishing large rocks, home appliances, and similar materials of a type generally encountered in a land fill site. The diagonally oriented demolition blades cooperate with transversely disposed grouser blades to obtain a smoother riding, stable, self-cleaning track. The grouser blades extend only part way across the track shoe in a manner leaving a lateral spacing or gap between the adjacent ends of the grousers so as to provide a scissoring action on debris captured between adjacent grousers of adjacent track shoes in the track.

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In a crawler vehicle for use in compacting a fill of earth and debris, the vehicle being of a type supported by spaced parallel endless tracks in which the tracks include a plurality of articulated links coupled in tandem and track shoes readily releasably coupled to and supported by said links, sai

In a crawler vehicle for use in compacting a fill of earth and debris, the vehicle being of a type supported by spaced parallel endless tracks in which the tracks include a plurality of articulated links coupled in tandem and track shoes readily releasably coupled to and supported by said links, said shoes each comprising a broad, rigid plate having top and bottom surfaces, a substantial region of the bottom surface acting as a tread surface for engaging the ground, a relief opening formed to extend centrally through said tread surface, said opening being sufficiently large to readily pass fill materials outwardly therethrough to inhibit buildup of impacted materials on the back side of said track shoes, a pair of grouser blades and a pair of demolition blades carried to protrude generally normal to said tread surface of said track shoes, said grouser blades and said demolition blades protruding sufficiently from said tread surface to be largely useful in destroying large rocks, home appliances and similar trash material of a type typically found at landfill sites, said demolition and grouser blades being disposed to define escape channels therebetween for readily permitting material discharged from said opening to freely leave the track shoe when moving in either of two opposite directions, said pair of grouser blades respectively extending along a substantial portion of the leading and trailing edge margins of said tread surface, said grouser blades being mutually offset laterally to opposite sides of the centerline of the path of movement of the track shoes, and said pair of demolition blades extending diagonally substantially in parallel relation respectively from the leading and trailing edge margins of said tread surface toward said trailing and leading edge margins for demolishing debris, said demolition blades being spaced from said grouser blades to define said channels for freely passing from said track the material discharged from said opening.