[Cooper]

Model man, I hope not, well I really don't know as this is my first build and experience with construction equipment. There is some space I between pads. I wrestled with that for a while and realized the full size dozers have a similar overlap in the direction of forward projection, (when the cleats fowl with dirt the links and overlap help seal the gap by the direction of overlap). As the majority of time the cleats will be gripping while pushing a load forward, or pulling something. Not going in reverse, that's why tracks are directional. Guess it's just the better of the two. So I just went with the same idea but did try and keep the spaceing to a minimum, as my thought was to try and keep the larger stuff from not getting in. But like I said, I don't know, but boy will I be unhappy to make tracks again!!! Lol!!! They are a lot of time, more of a pain being the repetitive work.