How to get track back on rear sprocket??

Hi All,
Last night the left track came off the rear drive sprocket on my CAT 314.
I've looked at a bunch of utube videos, and would like to know the best way to proceed--- in the utube videos its real variable how people get the track back on-- bucket teeth, chains, etc. All of them seem to suggest releasing track tension and blocking up the machine on the side where the track is off. I'm doing this alone.
Some guys in those tubes are pretty rough with bucket teeth on the pads-- can't you bend them this way?

--Can someone please tell me a good way to do this? FYI, I have a tractor, chains, come-a-long, etc.
I searched this forum and couldn't find anything-- maybe I'm not searching right.
Thanks in advance for any help1
Bob

If you got some blocks block up the side that's off relieve pressure off of track tensioner by unscrewing the grease zerk a little bit take the smooth side of your bucket if it will reach and push on the tensioner to suck it back in if not use a block against your bucket then take the track off the idler and put it on the sprocket using a chain to set it on there once that is done use a chain to pull the track snug and set it on the idler if you got the tensioner sucked in far enough it should just fall right on then just tighten up grease zerk and pump it up to desired tension you could probably just wrap the chain around the track to do it all

Jake break's method is good, but lots of people have different ways. I used to run a 992 that the under carriage was so worn out it used to walk out of the tracks all the time. At first I called for help, but after a while, I could do it with the bucket by myself. I used to lift the chain off the top idlers with teeth, use the teeth to loup it over the sprocket. It was easier with tiger teeth, then pull it back onto the top idlers again. Tighten her back up. Tried this method with a newer 320 and it was a lot harder. Possibly because the longer track had more give, or just because it was so worn out.

Thanks and cuttin edge, but I could not block up the excavator carriage-- I burried four feet high stack of blocks. Then had to use the stick t hold up the track and used chains on a tractor bucket to pull the track back on the sprocket-- hard muddy work. Next time, will try one of your two methods.
Bob

I was never able to block it up either. Everytime it happened it was in the mud. Blocking is only good under ideal conditions, but glad you got it back on.

Glad to hear you got it back on it's never fun putting tracks back on of course the tracks can never come off in an easy spots it's always in mud or on the side of a hill. You get pretty creative when you got a excavator down in a gully or ravine and it throws a track off we had a track steer that if you got it sideways on a hill a certain way the right side track would always come off I got to where I could put it back on by myself in 20 minutes we finally got tired of it and sent it back to the rental yard after they couldn't figure out why it would always do that

I've thrown them off in bad spots, sometimes just get completely off and use the bucket to pull that side and reach back and drag the track with you till you get to dry ground. It's really a bummer when they come off.

Pay attention to the track tension and watch how and what you turn on will help reduce throwing track.