Remove and replace a steel track the easy way Start to finish 3 hours! 

Still looks easier than changing track on a tank.

Best to connect the track at the front of the idler.

You can tell working around Mr Frank he dont say much but you can learn alot from him! Great video Josh!

I think Frank is gonna need a few cold beverages to make him smile after doing that job! Great video Josh!! Wooooooo

Thanks for also not being afraid to throw out costs so we can understand the seriousness of the situation.

This vid is Better than the news of these days

I don't know about anyone else watching...... but just can't but WOOOOOOOOO along with you Josh.....

I would say Frank has done this before. I helped replace one on a D-7 Cat in 1963 at the age of 16. I learned to drive that old cable lift Cat and and cleared a lot of ground in the summer of 63.

Frank seems like a man of few words and ain't nothing wrong with that.👍🏻

JOSh, that is an adventure. IT is the same as ARMY TANKS and ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS. THANK YOU this is a good LESSON that most people never see.

I had no idea how to put a new track on. what a neat way to go . thank you.

Wether the track assembly is ( Berko, ITP or CAT) the bolts have a required torque. Bolts are installed lubricated with antiseeze compound not locktite and are tightened using a cross pattern sequence. The paint on the underside of pad must be removed as well as the mating surface on top of rail so it will not work loose . It takes a lot of fight out of it to reconnection of master link to put it over front idler so idler will hold it straight for you.

If it was easy...well frank makes it look easy.

I honestly didn't think you were gonna get Frank to whoooo !! But it happened..lol awesome job guys thanks for sharing!!!

Always helps to have a giant on a job like this.

Thanks, buddy, for the awesome video handsome man.....;-) Marty,

I always connected the track near the bottom of the front idler using a pin that gets driven into the bushing. Pulling the two halves together with straps seems like extra work. Let gravity do the work and save your back.

Hey Josh thank you for the video I enjoy it and putting that track on probably took you guys oh I would say three hours and so much great information that you taught everyone on RU-vid now thanks again

Thanks Frank for showing your track install. Amazing !!!!

Good one because I need to replace my tracks too

Great blog Josh I've never seen that done I did not know thank you for sharing that 🇺🇲💯 WOOOOOO,!🇺🇲

Took my cousin and I 3 hours with nothing but 2 come alongs and a 30 ton Bottle jack we had to replace that bearing along side of the front wheel on a d6 wish we had a crane on our work truck

On track with this vid

Awesome Awesome video Josh man you never disappoint with your videos and content.

That looked like quite the project! Thank you for sharing!

Very awesome Josh thanks for sharing can't wait for the next video Sir

This is a first for me I have never seen that done before very interesting video thanks for sharing great job.

Well that changed my mind so now I do not want one of those. I will settle for a picture. Man gotta have lots of good equipment just to get the tracks on and off. Great job and thanks for sharing

Back in 1977 I worked as a welder at American Hoist & Derrick, the short time they had a plant in Duluth, Mn. I could never pass the vertical or overhead welding tests so I picked parts & did other things. One of the things I helped with was strapping down a backhoe to a flatbed rail car using 1/2 or 5/8ths steel cable(can't remember which). About two or three weeks after that rail car left, heading for the West coast, our foreman stopped by to tell us we did a real good job strapping that backhoe down. He said the train was going a little too fast on a curve in the mountains and a few cars broke out of the train & rolled down the mountain. He said the backhoe stayed on the whole way down.

Great video Josh thanks so much for sharing God Bless yall stay safe🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Always wondered how they done that. Now I know! Thanks a lot!

That was great Josh!! Thanks for another lesson!👍🚜

I've done that so many times I could have done it in my sleep...34 years as a heavy equipment mechanic. Easier with a track dozer/loader than an excavator.

great video Josh. I really appreciate your content.

Hope you where ready for this rain, lucky so and so. We need a update on the pond, and pastures.

Great video. Skid steer or tractor is a must. Sand is a killer on track machines. Working in dirt or rock , they’ll last a lot longer. I love heavy metal and it’s all heavy on that rascal.

a good buddy would have went and gotten that dewalt battery operated grease gun...lol

Wooo Frank. Team work baby - nice 👍🏻

Frank is an amazingly patient man most mechs don't want to be filmed, get Frank a Lock n Lube and a battery powered grease gun

Great vid bud very informative thx for showing and the land is looking good bud ...godbless

Frank, a man of few words.

You guys make things complicated, very easy task

Great video! Good job covering all the detail

Thats a huge difference between old vs new cleats!

Frank probably said about 20 words or less. Including "WOOOO!" Hes there to get shiii..stuff done... not to talk. Great video in the end 👍👍

Haha he seems like fun! I like him already

I know that's heavy dangerous work and you guys did a fine job of getting it replaced. I learned a good deal from this video and I'm glad everyone got through it without damage or injury.

Thanks guys

Thanks for the share Josh. I just changed out the tracks on my Cat 943 loader. Wish that you woulds of had this video up, back before done it. It would of been a lot of help.

Great video stoney man educational love these videos pal

I've helped Change track on M60 Tanks and it's done about the same way, I was a Tank Mechanic in the Marines.

You guys are tired,but thanks for posting it was fun to learn something new I'll never do because ha ha I'm a girl.

If there is ever a call for a battery-powered grease gun this was it! 😊

Great video !!

Hi.... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍

Thanks Man, great job.

You guys made an easy job look hard but you got it done, did it wrong but got it done

It is a good memory for me because as a retired US Army veteran I have changed track on tanks and armored personnel carriers M113A2 & A3. You are correct you don't get to do that very often.

Nice job guys.

Great video, man. Keep going!

Was gonna say you have good tracks and chinese tracks that are cheaper and wear out faster. Big price difference.

That was interesting.

Outstanding job tks

Front roller = Idler Rear sprocket = Final drive Top pulleys= Carrier rollers When working on uneven ground keep the final drive downhill, easiest way to throw a track off if you don't. 🤘

Thank you for teaching!

Great video thanks again

Broke that 👍

That was very interesting Thanks !!!

I love it , great job

Hahah me and my father put these tracks back on using Ancient Greek leverage 😂😂😂 let me tell you. We might loose our eyeball .. heck our face but we gotta pull it on somehow using the arm . Don’t have bobcat laying around

Looks like fun.

Neat vid, like you said, don’t often get to see this. Too Bad he Kept Talkin over you tho !! 😹

Lift the front idler with the bucket then pump grease.

There is no need to remove the grease fitting. There is a relief valve that should be loosened about one turn and will let the grease out of the adjuster.

Thanks frank !!!

Awesome!

Good job

Cool stuff!!!

That is why they have battery operated grease guns!

When I saw the machine with the track removed and all that dirt caked up I got to thinking of a guy with an excavator I saw some years back. Every day after work he would hose it down and clean out all the dirt and then wipe it dry to avoid water marks in the paint. Before he left for the day the machine looked like it had just been delivered from a showroom. Now it was a new machine, or at least it looked like one to me, but hey, it's an excavator. It is used to dig through the dirt every day. It WILL get banged up, it WILL get scratched and it WILL get worn. That's just the way it works with heavy machines like this. But he treated it like it was a showpiece. That was a few years ago, and seeing this I just wondered for how long he kept pampering that machine like that. I'm not laughing at him wanting to keep it clean, just at the image of him wiping it dry after washing it every day. I kind of understand what he was probably feeling. That machine was pretty expensive, and buying it new it had to hurt just a little bit knowing that every scratch or dent meant that it was loosing value. Just putting the bucket into the dirt the first time cost money. Personally I would probably be a bit obsessive until it got it's first good dent or deep scratch. After that I would be able to relax and accept that it is a tool and it will get worn with time and work, and that's just how it's supposed to work.

You need to always cut the track bolts off. No need trying to take them off with a wrench of any kind.

Thanks SRF. Give Frank a hug! Ha

Finally getting notifications again.

Frank said put the camera down we got work to do ole son! LOL

Thumbs up y’all

Once you open the tensioner grease port, you can slide 2" cold rolled steel rods between the track and the sprocket and compress the tensioner with the machine. No other machine needed. I use 3 rods that are 2 feet long.

Frank’s red hot lol he’s a no nonsense kind a guy. He’s the let’s get it done and I don’t care about no camera lol

So that’s frank. I pictured him much older with white hair and a beard. Kinda like Kenny Rogers. Lol

We did that on a big cat excavator and it was more easier since you can lift the side up with boom and bucket. And yes 4k is a steal that track from the cat dealer is like over 13k listed before any discounts. Also, it's best to power wash down the track before work on it IMHO. Oh invest in a battery or compressor grease gun . Thatwould make it much easier pumping it back up.

Roll the bucket into idler with a pc of firewood! No skidsteer needed

come-a-longs are your friend

Operator for 40 years. Why didn’t you clean all that mud off before putting new track on???

A lot easier with the bolt to gather track the first ones I ever did you had to drive the master pin out an back in with a rod and sledgehammer

Does Snapon make a special pipe for its wrenches, or will any old bit of pipe lying around do? Because otherwise I think they are missing a niche market here....

You can recondition your old track several times. This involves rotating each pin and bush until the unworn section is aligned to engage the sprocket. To do that obviously requires a complete track dismantling in a workshop. The gripper bars can also be cut free and new bar welded in place. Major track repairs are carried out in a dedicated track press (workshop). It does save a lot of money doing it this way.

outstanding

That is either an alligator or BERCO master link. I couldn't see it well enough in your video. Those bolts... heat them with a torch first, cherry red, then torque them out with an air wrench. Regarding things to check... also check the tensioner and make sure the seals don't need replaced. And check the final drive fluid levels, etc.

I was a USA Tanker, easy money

Tell ol' franky, lefty loosey haha

Me: Dang boys! When is Andrew Camarata going to put up a new video? RU-vid: Hey! You want to watch a new Stoney Ridge video? He's replacing a track on a dozer! Me: HECK YEAH! I LOVE STONEY RIDGE FARMER CHANNEL!