Loosened the tracks successfully

Hi, Captain Beans.
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Just my 0.02.

That's great news Captain Beans. Improvising is normal here. Back in my early days on the farm, we didn't have those fancy cordless tools; I am very spoiled today with all of my new to me 18 volt Milwaukee toys. The old school mechanics did a lot using only a handful of tools, a BIG hammer being their most used one! Brute muscle and some common sense got a lot accomplished.
Hope to see more pictures of you farming. JM

Thanks for the up date.

I did not have an impact wrench but used a torch and got things good and hot and it finally came loose. Glad to see you are making progress. I know it feels good to actually get things like that completed successfully.

I recall one of the issues was a track chain with non correct master pin that had hogged out the link pin holes. As this is a hunting tooth sprocket arrangement that needs to be taken car of or the stretched pitch at the master pin will see every tooth on the sprocket and rapidly wear the sprocket out.

its surprising how well water can work as a solvent and more the fact of removing dirt frees things to move.

my guess is Water is the number ONE solvent, take care of it !