Ignore the prior post. I felt, I was unintentionally vague. I clarified everything for the benefit of all readers. Forum managers, please delete the prior post.
If you are having a trenching problem with a 280, you are not making enough power/track acceleration from a stop or at low speeds to flex the lugs. That is not a track design issue, it is a characteristic of your sled's power curve. Those tracks are designed with a durometer to hold up to turbo sleds that make significant power over stock without the paddles folding over. The 280 is a great track if you have the power to use it.
And, yes the polaris track has similar lug design technology to it. Albeit, the 2.7 lugs may be softer so as to flex a little more. In speaking with people I know who work at polaris, the 2.7 lugs are designed to cup when flexing so as to hold more snow per lug while reducing rotating mass. That is the same exact design objective as the camso track, which inspired the design team changes to the new track. The differences are in the lug pattern and durometer across the paddles and paddles support columns.
The quirk with a track like a 280 that has new generation lugs, which are designed to form cups under load, is they require sufficient load via track speed to work efficiently. By efficient, I mean each lug starts to form a cup that holds a larger volume (mass) of snow than a traditional flat lug of comparable cross-sectional dimension. That is why camso engineers say the 280 track moves snow mass equivalent to a standard 3" track. While this is true at high track speeds, it is not true at low track speeds. At low speeds and ignoring sufficient track acceleration, the lug functions similar to a flat paddle design with a shorter profile that mechanically has less bite.
Comparatively, the doo track does has more bite on the bottom, so it performs better from a dig because it mechanically has more to surface area to do work with. And if you look at a doo track paddle, they are not 3" paddles by traditional track measurements. By those measures, they are bigger with a 3 and 1/8" profile, which is a true 3" paddle measured from the lug base. While these tracks have a little more mass to spin than a 280, i can say there is effectively no performance loss between the two. In fact, the Doo track is atleast as good as the camso 280 in most all cases and better in others.
Lastly, delamination is a manufacturing problem. You must have got a bad track. The only reason to deviate from a doo track is to save money when buying a new one, but that decision gets rid of a key component that makes the g4 850 perform the way it does.
