Best 60.. Seized Tracks

Soak the pins and bushes with water Dan

Hey r4dan,

On two occasions during Cat rescues of tractors with frozen tracks, while loading onto my hydraulic beaver tail trailer I successfully popped the tracks free. While dragging and skidding the tractors onto the trailer with a winch, the tracks would hit the bottom of the ramp and stopped forward motion. As I increased the tug on the winch to drag the tracks up and over the 1/2" lip of the ramp, the tracks popped free. On another rescue, I used two chains to secure the bottom of the rails about 1/2 way along the length and tied the to a tree to prevent the tractor from skidding away as I pulled on the front of the Cat with a bigger tractor. By holding the tracks in place and pulling the tractor forward it also worked to pop the tracks free.

As Neil states water is great to free pins up. I took a cat for a drive into a shallow creek bed with a frozen link to free it up. I've read here on this BB guys trying diesel and other stuff with no success, then trying water and it worked. So water and pull power. I wouldn't try using the power of the tractor that is frozen., damage could occur. Use power from another tractor until you get it to pop free first.

Good luck
Glen

On super bad ones folks have fought them off and soaked them in the farm pond for 6 months and had success.

Water works...also, chain to the top of the track & pull from there. It doubles the mechanical advantage. It took 2-1/2 hours to get my D2 loaded on the trailer when I got it, & almost that long to get it off. Water, big hammers, & pulling from the track will get you there...👍

Thank you ALL VERY MUCH !!

Great ideas... I sure appreciate your time and the info !!!!

Parking it in a pond works
Plain water won't do it

Greg

Plain water? :confused2: whatever came out of a hose worked for me...

normal water out of a tap works fine get a soaker hose you might use on your lawn and thread it thru the track chains and leave running for a few hours every day for a week or so
Then as described hook a chain to the grousers on the top and pull from there


Paul

let me know how you make out as i too have a 60 with frozen tracks. i drag it up on to my trailer and then just pulled it off with my 922B that was all she could do. been thing about how to tackle it from then on. so keep us informed on how things go. video of me unloading it.
https://youtu.be/YLsqwDE2rSU