Re-Trac The Skid Steer

[@bill45a1]

Wes, Teresa is a jewel! I've been watching her lots as of late, She seems to love the work she does, and takes pride in it. Simply amazing!!!

[@mischef18]

Great video you two, Theresa you sure are a great help.

[@eddeetz493]

I spent a fortune on tire repairs before I polyfilled them on a 863 bobcat. Lots of grapple bucket fire prevention brush cleanup. Can't imagine the frustration of having it down. That's what rain and dryoff days are good for, besides hauling hay.

[@jbmbanter]

Look at that girl operating that machine! I think you ought to hire her! :)

[@chadharmon5716]

Interesting video Wes I learn something new everyday by watching your channel thank u

[@crumb43]

Holy cow, I’ve been watching for 6+ years....

[@jankotze1959]

South Africa's Lock 'n Lube and you did a great job, well done

[@upon1gsxr600]

Block of wood against the front idler and curl back against it carefully. Shoots the grease right out and you don’t need 2 people. Doesn’t have to be jacked up either to push out the grease.

[@onelonleyfarmer]

i tried it would not budge

[@tmdavid1332]

Think that's more of a trick to use with excavators. Don't think skid steers have the curling power to cope with that trick ;)

[@upon1gsxr600]

Wow that’s strange. Did that with our cat 299c literally countless times. Thank god that pos is long gone. Went to asv/terex and haven’t thrown a track yet on three machines working in worse conditions. Granted you do have to be careful about them and they are expensive to replace. But the up time and much lower ground pressure and way more ground clearance more than makes up for it.

[@blacksheep9734]

I did it in a brand new foley cat skid steer. Sone of them have the curl power

[@MrThisIsMeToo]

No jack required. I thought you were almost going figure it out at one point. Lift the front end as high as it will go, stick a 6x6 or equivalent under the body towards the back end as far as it will go, lower the front end and the back end is jacked up.

[@michaelbrown8545]

Those old tracks would make great bog mats cut in half and layed out or tempory creek crossings. Cheers mate.🍻

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

Meet video!!!! What a pain in the but thou, to put on new tracks... Been there done that!! So I know your struggles, especially when the stupid machine falls off the block!!! LOL! You learn a whole new language when that happens..... Good job on getting the new tracks back on, thou!!!!

[@bradvaughan4524]

Cool. I wondered how the tension was adjusted on the JD tracks.

[@doogs6196]

Mate had a small stand on Skid Steer "Agresser ? " Im sure he never got 12 months out of the tracks .... but did do a lot of hours on it

[@jonyknoxvil]

Can you believe how well the unloading procedure went Wes! Haha

[@francesnieznay6623]

I remember when you changed them the last time,much smoother this time,you haven't lived until you changed track on an M--88. thanks again for the content

[@goldfire1676]

Wes that was easy compared to the new tyre I had to put on my push bike now that was a pain in the ass

[@danepittman1383]

Have I really been watching since 2011. Time flies

[@VideosByAl]

Oak Blocks.... Never would have thought of that.

[@RealCadde]

That has to feel soo good getting new tracks on that skidsteer.

[@ozlakota1]

old tracks do have a use you fill them with mulch hay an grow spuds/potato's in them

[@thatfarmallguy2269]

You should do a complete restoration project this winter on the 4010 or something

[@ginggur17]

Love the lil skidsteer

[@dieseldummy4250]

Couple tips, lay them new tracks in the sun for a while to warm em up. Much more flexible when warmer. Also do it somewhere you can get the loader to the side of the skid steer, a decent length of chain wrapped around the track and lift it on the skid steer with the loader, takes fighting with the weight of the track out of the game. Just trying to save your back a lol, ya got it done , congrats.

[@mrpearce4]

You could make a yard scraper with one of the old tracks, that's what we do with old tacks or old tractor tyres but the cut the tyres in half, just an idea

[@kevinwillis9126]

ready for many more years of service.....

[@donald1056]

I bet those replacement tracts weren't cheap

[@donald1056]

Not much right now

[@WalkerOutdoors]

As always great work Wes

[@t.c.bowling1934]

Intro was awesome!

[@jetegtmeier71]

once again you tube didn't put your video in my subscription list I had to go to your channel to see if you uploaded

[@jetegtmeier71]

have you ever seen rubber push blades made from old tracks ?

[@arjanwilbie2511]

Are steel tracks available? Then get rubber block on those.. I am wanting some for my winter wheelchair idea.

[@builtrodewreckedit]

These little tracks are a pain but you just haven't lived tell you try to walk steel tracks back onto a large excavator.

[@blacksheep9734]

builtrodewreckedit excators arnt that bad because you can use the bucket to get them on, i knocked a track off on a d8 once. That wasnt fun

[@georgenamie948]

....and it seems they never slip off in a good place to work,or where you can get a backhoe/crane close enough to help

[@blacksheep9734]

George Namie your telling me, I knocked a track off in a river 😂 thank god it was a winch car

[@mjmcomputers]

Nice job, should last at least 6 years.

[@MrFakit]

I have over the tire tracks for my skid steer and the first time I put them on it took 1 hour, 20 min now.

[@norman7179]

Teresa turned out to be a real "farm girl". That's great, because women generally aren't interested in hard work and long hours. She's a keeper Wes, don't let her get away.

[@fearlesspatrriotMcKanna]

I have used those tracks and you will be happy with them.

[@stanleyjones4180]

great video thanks wes

[@davebarnes9099]

Good job

[@notsofresh8563]

If you find a fitting with a hose barb for the grease ZERK hole you can attach a hose and run it into a container to catch the grease. Eliminates mess and lets you reuse perfectly good grease(in less important situations, like on your fifth wheel)

[@notsofresh8563]

If you remember in ten years when you do the tracks again......

[@JohnSmith-fx4se]

All considering how unfamiliar Teresa is with running equipment, she seemed to do a good job turning the loader around at the end.

[@theprojectcollector7260]

What a great opportunity to clean and get some POR 15 on it. A clean area will work so much nicer. But hey, tomorrow another day.

[@SMILY95]

well may be time to look at buying an old utility or train service truck with a boom on it with the number of large equipment you have and the cost of down time it would be a lot easier to have the truck stocked with all the basic wear parts ,tools and air that you could use at the farm or the field

[@bennyrussell5551]

SMILY95 why not just use the front loader attachment on the tractors?

[@SMILY95]

well a service truck can carry spare parts and tools so he would basically be a shop on wheels

[@Jorat1346]

You could use strap to compress the tensionner.. ?

[@lukestrawwalker]

No, WAY too much force required for a strap to be any real help... OL J R :)

[@aaronjarvenpa1743]

Have you used your sawmill lately

[@norman7179]

I think he uses it in winter while things are slow. Gotta make hay while the sun shines.

[@jrbpa5775]

If it wasn’t for the good help you had you’d really be in trouble, good video....

[@Graveltrucking]

I hate changing skid steer tracks the one we have at work gets rented out so the tracks see some abuse the last set of tracks we only got a little over a year on them the machine is a Kubota 75, machine only has 600 hours on it gone through 3 sets of tracks at 1200 dollars a pop.

[@joshoakley2091]

Fluid Film is a good product Wes, I use it all the time , if a little does a little good a lot should do a lot of good .......

[@rdekort9273]

Verry interesting video,can i ask why you do repares like this yourself?here in holland when repares like in your video have to be made 99% of the farmers would bring it to a shop

[@truracer20]

99% of farmers and contractors in the US have a dealer mechanic service their equipment also. Wes shows us that you don't have to do that, you can repair and maintain your own equipment. I grew up on and around small farms that had to do their own repairs and maintenance just to stay profitable. It's a good thing for the service industry but at the same time, the cost is a little over the top and hard to bear for a small operation. For a small operator if a piece of equipment breaks it can either be fixed by the operator or he can call for an expensive service truck that won't come for hours and meanwhile the operator is sitting idle doing nothing. In a few videos Wes talks about the cost of a dealer service department doing a repair and the cost of him doing the repair on his own. The savings is in the labor cost, even if he paid himself prevailing wage he still saves money.

[@lukestrawwalker]

Most dealers around here only hire kids fresh out of high school that basically know NOTHING. They have maybe 1-2 "old timers" in the shop that have worked on stuff forever and know what they're doing, and they basically tell the kids what to do. Service trucks aren't much better... Course they still want to charge you $100 per hour or more shop rates, even when they send a kid out that would be working at McDonald's otherwise... I've seen a LOT of stupid stuff done by these kids too... BIL had a straw walker replaced in his 9600 combine 2 years ago and the 2 young guys they sent out spent about 2 hours or more taking the doghouse loose on the back of the combine to take the walker out before they figured out from the computerized shop manuals that they didn't have to do that... they climbed up on top of the straw chopper with half the bolts removed from the doghouse and nearly ripped the entire thing off the back of the combine... It was like watching a pair of monkeys humping a football for awhile there... They FINALLY got it together and replaced the damn thing. Only reason we didn't do it ourselves is that both he and I are old and fat and you need a skinny kid to squeeze in on top of the sieve and chaffer up under the straw walkers to get the front bearing and bolts installed on the front crankshaft... I used to take my hipper bearings to the shop to have them pressed in, since I didn't have a shop press at home. I was having bearing failures WAY too often and went back in the shop one day and figured out why immediately-- darn goofy kids were pressing the bearing into the housing bore by pushing against the INNER race, not the OUTER race (you ALWAYS push on the OUTER race when pressing a bearing into a BORE, and always push on the INNER race when pressing a bearing onto a SHAFT). By pressing them into the hole by the INNER race, they were denting the balls in the bearing and possibly cracking the raceways, and so NO WONDER the bearing would fail fairly quickly after installation. I went and made a press tool out of a steel oilfield gas line coupler I bought and welded a heavy steel plate on one end for the press to bear against, which would perfectly fit the outer races to push them into the bore, and the stupid kids at the dealership had to be FORCED to use the thing (too lazy to use it). The last time I had them do it (paid for them to do it) this loud mouthed know-it-all moron kid went back there and put the thing in the press, started pressing, the bearing went cockeyed, and he kept pressing until he was literally HANGING off the press lever WITH A CHEATER PIPE ON IT... needless to say the bearing EXPLODED like a hand grenade, showering balls and bits of raceway like shrapnel all over the shop, and ruining a $40 housing. After that, I just bought my own press... Heck, most of the car dealers now do the same thing. Hire kids to do the grunt work, and keep a couple old timers around to tell them what to do. That way they can hire "mechanics" dirt cheap and only have to pay a couple of old guys a REAL wage to keep them around to actually tell the kids how to fix stuff. Course the kids only work for them for a year or two at most-- as soon as they can get some experience, and can get a better job, they're off like a shot to work for the oil companies or pipeline companies or utilities or whatever, and they hire another dumb kid to take their place, and the cycle continues. That's why I don't use dealer shops anymore... I either do it myself or take it to a good local INDEPENDENT mechanic... Later! OL J R :)

[@4gauge10]

I appreciate seeing the Amsoil "Severe-Gear"75-140 on camera Wes,if you read on the back of that bottle,you'll see the military spec rating and that machine will easily last another 50 years or more using 75-140 Amsoil in it. I personally use the 75-90 Amsoil in my trucks differentials,I've noted significant reductions in diff temps.

[@oliverknapp3104]

4 gauge do you sell amsoil products?

[@4gauge10]

Oliver Knapp Yes I do,I used Amsoil products for about 2 years before selling them to see if there is any performance advantages and there is a big difference between the Castrol oil that I was using and Amsoil,I became a dealer in 1999.

[@oliverknapp3104]

4 gauge I know amsoil is fantastic stuff I use it in my Duramax

[@dejanira2]

Looks like a tough job for one person.

[@stoddern]

How long do the tracks last? I could have swore i saw you replace them 2-3 years ago

[@Ghis1964s]

I was thinking the same, but it's actually 5yrs ago (I went binge-watching all his video 3yrs ago which why it felt to me like he'd just recently switch those tracks) kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3zKpGN5mLl-pcU

[@arnoldromppai5395]

you just put new tracks on it like a year ago, man they not holding up, ones I used been on for years an used all the time

[@rogerjennings5846]

I thought that propane bottle would take off like a rocket when u knocked it over

[@bjre.wa.8681]

I'm NOT a armchair safety officer, but please take a moment and explain the circumstances of how Teresa came to dump the tracks on top of the propane bottle? I've worked on farms and construction sites, so I know "Shit Happens", but this was kinda one of those things that prompted a "You gotta be kidding me" responses.

[@thebad300]

it is a grease-powered Hydraulic cylinder

[@joedoak3478]

You'll like them I had them great traction and flex

[@y2kxj]

I am thinking that's about a $4000 worth of tracks there.

[@forestlawrencegrading9154]

Good video I think you should actually go ahead and knock the valve off one of those hundred pound propane tanks I would love to see if they really take off like a missile the way some people say

[@brandoncalin8183]

Again!!!!! Didn't you change them last year

[@brandoncalin8183]

I guess it was an old video I watched

[@Panhead49EL]

How do farmers get rid of their trash?

[@ashboy225]

Keep it or burn it :)

[@kevinwillis9126]

i have known some farmers to dig a hole and bury it....

[@JohnSmith-fx4se]

Like everyone else, you take it to the dump or the trash collector comes and gets it.

[@ronwrob2819]

they don't look at his shop/yard

[@txlonghaul21]

lol Wes your such a tease.......

[@bradcoley6964]

we replaced our deere skid steer tracks ourselves too It is not the funniest job and as you say it is a pain in the ass for sure

[@BornRandy62]

The old track should make good walkway on soft ground. Cheap sidewalk

[@craigschofield64]

Now that is a job I have never even seen done....looks like a big pain in the D**]( to do

[@435now]

It is, when I worked for a home builder we had to do that a few times (tracks get worn, cut from clearing house lots, ect.) and it's always a pain in the ass. Its better when you have a few people and another machine with the forks on it, but its still a pain

[@thomasleonard1846]

Tractor forks!

[@tdgreenbay]

Thanks for showing us this wes... Now when I get a track skidsteer I will know how to do and not do this procedure

[@williamboyle7089]

Is OEM Factory???

[@Kenneth65]

Yes

[@TheGhostOfLuciasClay]

William Boyle yes OEM is original equipment manufacturer

[@FishFind3000]

There’s also oe so its original equipment so it’s the same thing like oem but without the price.

[@Ham68229]

No offense Wes but, you used the front loader to drag the old track out of the way, could've still used it to bring the new track somewhat in place to put back on. Still a good video none the less. Cheers :)

[@markd8405t5000]

No one saw the propane cylinders before dumping the truck bed ???????

[@waylondunkin3175]

👍

[@cableandchain]

put raised white letters out lol

[@someguy936]

I'm sure you have found out by now that those tracks don't do well on hillsides

[@advandervelden1588]

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[@lowercherty]

I cringed when I saw that propane tank get knocked over. You could have had another fire real easy.

[@benjammin4456]

B Laquisha it's an air tank they use for field work

[@domwasha100]

Wes, you need to wax those tracks.

[@banshee8989]

Like waxing the dolphin?

[@domwasha100]

banshee8989 yeah😁

[@839Unipicker]

Remove that Plasterterd decal.

[@waults]

Your doing it wrong. I've installed 100s of these things. Cat, Deere, Bobcat, Case. They all have gone on easiest the same way. Next time, use the curl of the new track to your advantage..... Then put the thing around the rear idler first. To get it over the front idler, a couple small chunks of pipe let the guide lugs slide right over the idler.

[@westerntruckandtractorrepa1353]

Exactly!

[@orangepowerallischalmers2586]

I bet if John Deere told you up is down and down is up, you would get on Your green and yellow soap box and preach all day long.

[@ReolSPro]

it´s 99,999999% junk