Hey guys! Been a while since I got here.I had to send out my puter to get fixed ,and I can't access the site from work.Anyways I got a set of tracks,and I love them.My ? is what is the best way to oil them?what does everyone else do?I was thinking of taking them off and washing them and trying to apply some oil to each bolted joint with a hand pump and let it run down all over the bolt. Let me know what you guys are doing. Thanks Aaron Smith
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What machine do you have, where did you get the tracks and how much did you pay? I seem to have a habit of getting my machine stuck in the mud. I know, you guys are saying how the hell can you get one of these stuck? Well, when you don;t have the bucket on to push/pull yourself out and you have a bale spear with a round bale of hay on it, you can get stuck and I have.
I bought mine from Equipment marketing in Huntington,IN.$1170 I think is what I paid.There is another thread I had on here and I talked about them i think.My machine is an LS170.I too had to move hay out in a pasture and my NH has the all terrain style tread so you might not even try going in the mud. here's a link to my photos to see the tracks. http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562920412rvMAXv?vhost=good-times They have a website.David Spoonamore is the guy who sells them.Tell him AAron Smith sent ya if you like them.I also bought a 72" grapple bucket and have used the crap out of it cleaning trees out of a fence row. I guess i did have his website saved here it is. http://equipmentmarketinginc.com/index.html well got to goto work have a great day! Aaron SMith
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Aaron
You can try to oil them if you like, it can't hurt, but it may be kinda futile.
The best I have found for extending pin life is to make sure the pins are all floating in the shoes. Some of the pins will tend to seize in the shoe and all the wear will be on one side of the pin and on the link itself, instead of evenly spread all around the pin and over the link and pad pivot as well.
Take a 1/2 air wrench and give all the pins a spin to be sure they are free.
92LX555 if you can't find anyone local to you we can drop shop these fob the factory in Wisconsin
About shipped $1200 to $1250 (10" wide) most places in the US, and depending on your wheelbase and tire size
Ken
You can try to oil them if you like, it can't hurt, but it may be kinda futile.
The best I have found for extending pin life is to make sure the pins are all floating in the shoes. Some of the pins will tend to seize in the shoe and all the wear will be on one side of the pin and on the link itself, instead of evenly spread all around the pin and over the link and pad pivot as well.
Take a 1/2 air wrench and give all the pins a spin to be sure they are free.
92LX555 if you can't find anyone local to you we can drop shop these fob the factory in Wisconsin
About shipped $1200 to $1250 (10" wide) most places in the US, and depending on your wheelbase and tire size
Ken
yeah Ken I wondered how futile it would be to oil them.I will try to turn the bolts every so often I guess.When I was out in the field yesterday it sounded like a sherman tank was running around.LOL! But man do they work good!
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These type of tracks don't really need lubing as there is very little contact surface of the links and shoes to the bolts. In fact I have found the best lube is wet soil. Regardless, they will wear any way or anywhere you use them. And you gotta keep them tight on the tires or you can either wipe them off the tires in a hard turn, or worse--puncture the tire sidewall while they come off OR spinning around and catching a buried object like a root or chunk of concrete. And if they run loose you can break a shoe or bend a ramp component like me---not to mention loss of critical traction going up or down hill---which reminds me: time to change my UnderRoos.