Caterpillar Sproket Removal (also Komatsu)

some further pics of me at work

and here is the last one

tctractors,from our world to yours,a very Merry Christmas and Happy N ew Year. You should of had a pint by now?

What's the blue thing in tracks TC?



Our track press in action. Often takes all of its power to move the pins..


Merry Christmas to you and yours TC

Merry Christmas TC Come on we need some verbs for all those pics. What's with the linkage pics? Blue machines for peat work??

Well firstly A Happy Christmas to all, now a few of my odd verbs on stuff, the first few involve the RAT tractor you can see the fluff covered rodent tucked in the linkage, the task was to replace the drive couplings from the engine to the Tran's, as usual the engine mounts are faked up both bolts on the right side rear mount had been welded in an out of sight area around the back, then the engine mount was welded to the chassis, so its time to get out the speaking clock, the clock does not talk but it tells you stuff, this tractor was full of RATS that seemed tough critters as they hardly took any notice of me banging and clanging, the red thing is parked near the RAT tractor its a BTD6 sporting a BTD8 fuel tank?? I think, the 3304 engine has just copped the new pistons and liners, all the liners are standing on 7 thou shims as the block has been cut, the blue things are a Spider Plough made by Walter Fockersperger from Bulgaria, this plough (plow) has worked in India, Australia, America and Canada, so you could say its pulled a groove around the World, anyhow Walter F' popped over from Bulgaria to give myself and the owner a bit of a pep talk on its innards as I have to bring it up to a spec' to tackle some shifts its booked in for, its winch unit is Cummins powered 14 Ltr with a single line pull of 70'000 kgs but its all sat on a Marooka 3300 or was it a 3400 ? that sort of worries me some as I had 1 of these chariots years ago with a knackered track drive that proved some pig to over come and cost a load of Wedge, the little D4D was up past Macclesfield my job was to fit new liners and pistons only, these liners are sitting on 9 thou shims the cylinder bore size is 4" 1/2 as its the early 330B engine in an 88a Glasgow built tractor, the 2 bucket thing is a Farm Yard mod' to trim out Willow trees, the blue tractors are Ford based County's this man has a stack of them sadly the rain failed to show in the photo but its falling right to left not down, it was some odd spot past Hay on Wye, the little D4H is not a common thing in the U.K. is getting its Toe Nails trimmed, well getting a link chop port and starboard with the crock clip re-fitted for good looks, Slidey this is only a small press cylinder (74 ton) as its only a small task, I have 2 105 ton cylinders and a Berco cylinder that I cannot lift and don't really want, is that pin you are pushing a 50mm D8/350 size?

TC I got the speaking clock it took abit but I got it. LOL

Merry Christmas TC

Morooka 3300VD, yes. If you get into the track drives and Cautrac or Plant Parts Ltd. can't help you out, shoot me a PM and we'll talk about alternatives.

Cheers

Its a Berco track, not sure of the exact dimensions of the pin. I'm told it's a 150t press. I have to bore a hole with the hot spanner in the ends of the pin sometimes to get them to come out. Even at that the pump will be hovering around 10,000psi doing it.
We trialed tracks off a 390 Cat. They called them PPR2. They were a total disaster and constantly had walking pins. They were a similar size to the Berco but were nowhere near as tight to press and had to have a swage done on them when in place

great pics there Tony, as usual. All the best for Christmas and New Year!

Slidey, the Rock Hawg thing that I used to have trouble with migrating track pins was on 50 mm pin CAT 350 track groups, these pins would sometimes run up about the 8'000 psi spot with a 105 ton cylinder, I bought the other Berco cylinder to do PPR pins (Positive Pin Ret') on a big old banger, all that messing about with those collar things was a right dog, the Trencher is in Europe working at the moment coming back to the U.K. in March, to have a strip down and new digging chains fitted etc'.

oarwhat, I am very happy you managed to understand that bit of script, although you speak English its not like the stuff I utter??

Lanway, I will pm you in the AM and explain the drama I need to avoid or at least have a "Today" type answer for.

living the dream tctractors

I measured the pins on the berco track. Just shy of 65mm

It's a 200t machine running on a 90t diggers tracks, twas never gonna be too flash

TC I live in the US . I'm amazed at the difference between your English and ours. I never knew there was much difference until I started following your posts. I know you twist your words some but you guys have a different way of expressing yourselves. I needed a part for my boat and had to call the UK to get the correct part. The conversation was I can't find the right word. Awkward or challenging maybe. We were both speaking English but not the same language.

I love his dialect?
Im starting to use terms like knackered and take it to bits myself.
Either way he reminds me alot of my father repairing machines wherever they failed with basic "spanners"
and a unique way of thinking outside of the box.

The training he provided has served me well

Happy Holidays everyone !

Well I am glad you Lads are "Copping On" with the verbs that I print, some of that Mercan stuff I find a fare challenge, the biggest mavels to me has to be Ice Road Truckers and those learners digging for Gold, please don't think that I am being rude but "Blood and Sand" what a total load of crap, the U.K. gets these Man Cartoons about 2 years later than the U.S. in the Gold Rush thing of resent we had Parker (The Son of) reverse an a 25C up a little ramp with all sorts of wheels spinning, a Volvo A25C is unstoppable with all the locks in, the button on the floor needs pressing, then the basic driving skill on the excavators needs sorting as they are Howlers, the Mechanic turns up with a bit of Skirt on tow, rapidly running into the Jungle with the Mare bringing the job to a halt, this is why we don't have Guns in the U.K. as we would have Shot both of them, on the trucker front its a bit of road in the shape of a Y, so it's turn left or right on the start out from Yellow Knife at a point ahead, and these people manage to get this bit wrong, these Comedy Shows are nearly painful to view and not a good advert for machinery, perhapse I have said the wrong thing here its just I struggle some in this context, as a few years back I had the pleasure to see an old Navvy being driven by a visitor from the U.S. at a Vintage Excavator Trust, he was Top Draw.

tctractors

You summed up gold rush fairly accurate. If only the millions that watch knew the truth.

tctractors,well I for one refuse to watch this Ice Truckers. All you ever hear is "what if". Should a truck go thru the ice and there was a lose of life,that would never be shown. The load always seems to get delivered. One show had a whole pallet of grader blades dumped on road and no one saw whole pallet lifted by driver. Of course not as there is a cameraman and a driver. 3 people will get them onto the trailer. Not just one. Drama increases ratings. One driver who is loud and has no appreciation of other people's equipment would not ever set his butt in my truck. All these reality shows must have drama and crap to exist.IMO.

Blk prince, do you still drive trucks on the Timber? on these Forums we are lucky to have "King of the Obsolete" that seems to cope like a Polar Bear in the cold, and makes those Ice Road drivers look Total Pants without any effort, the Mechanic that was making "The Filter" in Gold Rush was a joke and would be hard pressed to earn any coins on this Rock, sadly he would stand out as N.F.U. on any Muck shift or Pile Drive site I have worked on, these sort of jobs usually attract good hands that are very focused on the task.

Thank you all for your comments and for looking at my snaps, lets hope the new year ahead is good for all of us and our Family's, I look at my Bride and know I have been Lucky, I look at my Son and know he has been Lucky, the way the Bride looks after him is untrue? he has been left home 5 years comes in my House to look in the Fridge?

Slidey, I really enjoyed your Track press photo as it looks like the U.K. with our puddles and mud, some people have had a real tough time the last few weeks here in the U.K. with near constant rain fall, it seems to be happening in the U.S. as well.
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tctractors said:

Slidey, I really enjoyed your Track press photo as it looks like the U.K. with our puddles and mud, some people have had a real tough time the last few weeks here in the U.K. with near constant rain fall, it seems to be happening in the U.S. as well.
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We are coming into the wet season here in the northern part of Western Australia. The lady in question left her track behind at the bottom of the ramp to the pit. It then started to rain in a bit of a show off fashion and collected right where we were working.
Being of Irish makings I'm used to working in ground that's soft underfoot and have learnt to thread lightly haha

Love your thread, my old man is of the same vintage as yourself and served his time with Langs in London so a lot of your stories sound familiar. He's in semi retirement fettling with road transport in Ireland these days but misses the plant all the time

oarwhat said:

TC I live in the US . I'm amazed at the difference between your English and ours. I never knew there was much difference until I started following your posts. I know you twist your words some but you guys have a different way of expressing yourselves. I needed a part for my boat and had to call the UK to get the correct part. The conversation was I can't find the right word. Awkward or challenging maybe. We were both speaking English but not the same language.

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You don't have to make an international call to hear English that isn't, just dial up Louisiana, LMAO! Them Coonass boys sure can murder a sentence. :tong