Wacahootaman
05-09-2005, 10:00 PM
Just spent Mothers Day getting a bulldozer un stuck that was also tangled up in barbed wire.
Lordy! What a mess!
The good news is the wire did not, at first glance, damage the seal to the final drives although I wont know fer sure until dozer gets run for a day or two
The dozer got stuck big time cause someone had throwed some rolls of barbed wire in a pond years ago, and before we knowed it, the dozer was on top of it and tried to get out of it by going the wrong way and got stuck with barbed wire all tangled up in the undercarriage!
After spendin several hours wading around in gumbo muck and pushing logs under the tracks, we called out another machine to pull us out then hauled it home on Mothers Day ,and spent all day gettin the wire off the final drives.
Lordy what a mess!
Had to take off 4 pads off the tracks over each sprocket just to see and get to the wire around the final drives!
Ended up using a come along, bolt cutters, drimmel tool cutters, wire cutters, pry bars, to get that wire out! Finally we had half a dozen strands wrapped tight deep into the valley between the final drives and the sprocket that we could not cut with anything we had till we figured out to get a big drill bit and put it down in there carefully to cut this last wire.
The missus was not too happy as this was a radical change of plans fer Mothers day but she an my brother and his wife and kids all joined in and we had a barbed-wire, dozer Mothers Day!
I did get a grin tho when I was down at the store bright and early to buy a big cold chisel and tole the cashier that "this here cold chisel wuz for momma on Mothers Day"
The machine was a John Deere 550G LGP so if any of yall have any tips on other things to do to trouble shoot after being down in the mud with barbed wire in the undercarriage please advise.
Lordy! What a mess!
The good news is the wire did not, at first glance, damage the seal to the final drives although I wont know fer sure until dozer gets run for a day or two
The dozer got stuck big time cause someone had throwed some rolls of barbed wire in a pond years ago, and before we knowed it, the dozer was on top of it and tried to get out of it by going the wrong way and got stuck with barbed wire all tangled up in the undercarriage!
After spendin several hours wading around in gumbo muck and pushing logs under the tracks, we called out another machine to pull us out then hauled it home on Mothers Day ,and spent all day gettin the wire off the final drives.
Lordy what a mess!
Had to take off 4 pads off the tracks over each sprocket just to see and get to the wire around the final drives!
Ended up using a come along, bolt cutters, drimmel tool cutters, wire cutters, pry bars, to get that wire out! Finally we had half a dozen strands wrapped tight deep into the valley between the final drives and the sprocket that we could not cut with anything we had till we figured out to get a big drill bit and put it down in there carefully to cut this last wire.
The missus was not too happy as this was a radical change of plans fer Mothers day but she an my brother and his wife and kids all joined in and we had a barbed-wire, dozer Mothers Day!
I did get a grin tho when I was down at the store bright and early to buy a big cold chisel and tole the cashier that "this here cold chisel wuz for momma on Mothers Day"
The machine was a John Deere 550G LGP so if any of yall have any tips on other things to do to trouble shoot after being down in the mud with barbed wire in the undercarriage please advise.