Gentlemen, I discovered a great way to install tracks and I thought I’d share it with you all. I’m sure many of you old pros know this trick but if not here it is. I used a trucker’s ratcheting binder to install tracks instead of come-alongs. See the attached picture.
For me it worked much better than wrestling with come-alongs. Inevitably the cable on the come-along binds around the tracks making it nearly impossible to line up the links or the come-along doesn’t allow the tracks to close together because the cable is in between them.
Plus those darn come-alongs are dangerous and are prone to breaking—particularly the foreign made ones. I’ve had several break apart on me—my American made Wyeth-Scott Puller being the exception.
The ratcheting binder works great because it allows the tracks to be pulled together evenly plus is serves as a leveling platform for the tracks to lie on as they’re being pulled together.
The trucker binders are also very strong and allow for a lever for easy cinching. I just fished some chain through the links underneath the tracks and hooked the binder to those chains. It was so much easier and faster to line up the master link holes using this method plus it was a heck of a lot stronger and safer.
Hope this trick helps you guys—thanks to all of you for your never-ending assistance with my two tractors, JD 450 and my little Komatsu D-20. It’s a pleasure to belong to this blog. Clarence
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Track Installation Trick
The problem with doing it that way, is you have to hold both halves of the track to hook up the binder. If you do the connection on the sprocket like shown in the manuals, the sprocket does pretty much all of the work for you.
Lavoy
Lavoy
Parts and restoration for antique and late model John Deere crawlers.
Owner and moderator www.jdcrawlers.com
Owner and moderator www.jdcrawlers.com
Even when using the method of attachment using the sprocket to hold, I always seem to have a problem getting the track link over the last tooth so the trucker binder trick may be helpful for that.
(1) JD Straight 450 crawler dozer with manual outside blade; (2) JD 2010 diesel crawler loaders; (1) JD 2010 diesel dozer with hydraulic 6-way blade; (2) Model 50 backhoe attachments, misc. other construction equipment
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