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Thawing and Cleaning the Tracks

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Track Froze up and Locked out on a Job. 4 k video

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What happens here

To address the 'track lock', a crew member uses a Dynaglo Pro torpedo heater to thaw the frozen mud packed around the machine's rollers and tracks. Once partially thawed, a hammer, chisel, and crowbar are employed to carefully chip away and remove the hardened debris. The operator stresses the importance of this preventative maintenance, recounting a previous experience where track cleaning took seven hours due to severe freezing.

Goal: Free the compact track loader from 'track lock' by removing frozen mud.

Tools and materials

  • Chisel — Prying and chipping frozen mud
  • Crowbar — Leveraging out larger chunks of frozen mud
  • Dynaglo Pro Torpedo Heater Dynaglo Pro — Thawing frozen mud in the tracks
  • Hammer — Chipping away frozen mud
  • Frozen Mud N/A — Debris being removed from tracks

What they say

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butt they're actually pretty lucky they clean those tracks as well as they did I remember back when it was about 13 years old and my dad and I were just getting started in excavating and we had no clue about track lock or frozen dirt and tracks and we went out and did a job with our John Deere 450 crawler loader and the next day we went out to move it nothing seemed to want to work right so almost thirteen year old kid with an air hammer a sledge hammer a chisel pounding seven hours it took me seven hours to clean those tracks out to get that machine so it would run the right way again so these guys don't have it so bad luckily they cleaned them out the night before

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