Tracks

[dbf577]

I have been working in a little mud lately and my tracks are building up mud how of do i need to clean them out? Thanks

 

[ben46a]

well before it dries completely will be the easiest, as long as your chains arent always riding in it and your rollers are all turning you should be fine.

 

[liebherr1160]

Im quite certain that either Cat or John Deere dealerships have for sale a "track shovel " .... the ones i have seen look like ..one half of a post hole digger but a little longer with a handle ...

 

[swampdog]

Im quite certain that either Cat or John Deere dealerships have for sale a "track shovel " .... the ones i have seen look like ..one half of a post hole digger but a little longer with a handle ...

It sounds as if you are describing a trenching shovel, which is available at most hardware stores. That's what I carry on my excavator.

 

[liebherr1160]

It sounds as if you are describing a trenching shovel, which is available at most hardware stores. That's what I carry on my excavator.

YEAH ..thats it ...either or ...our's came from the dealer ..one stop shopping

 

[td25c]

I usualy just clean out around the top roller's during the work day.If the temp is below freezing I clean the whole undercarrige at the end of the day.I hate working in mud with a dozer but sometimes you have to.

 

[liebherr1160]

I usualy just clean out around the top roller's during the work day.If the temp is below freezing I clean the whole undercarrige at the end of the day.I hate working in mud with a dozer but sometimes you have to.

sure as hell beats blowing the seals out of the final drives in the morning ..

 

[Clayton M]

If you have a water truck anywhere around get him to spray them out with his hose.

 

[Dirtman2007]

That's what mine look like all the time, I just wait till i'm done with the job and just shovel it out. It's easier when its wet, but you get all nasty so I let it dry if I have time.

 

[DPete]

Pic worth 1000 words, the longer you wait the harder it is to shovel because the mud compacts as it is jiggled. I get the carrier rollers at lunch and the whole frame either at quitting or the next AM while the machine warms up.

 

[catd8t]

oh man i used to you falt shovels to do it and one day one of the guys gave me one of those man on man nothing better

 

[Northart]

Track Shovel

Here's what I carried on the grader to clean mud,rock,dirt off the moldboard and elsewhere.

 

[DPete]

Sure is nice to get done with a muddy job and back in some real dirt where you don't have to shovel every day. The only thing worse than mud is getting tangled up in barbed wire

 

[dbf577]

Thanks for the help I try to shovel mine everyday. Just wondering what everyone did.