Moving a frozen OC 12

[MS35]

I bought a couple OC 12' s at a sale this fall. I would like to get the parts machine moved home but the tracks appear to be frozen. It will move slightly back and forth when towing it but then the tracks lock up. It appears that where the track sat in the dirt, the pins are just plain rusted tight. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this thing onto a trailer to move it? Or to even get the tracks freed up? My other option is to completely disassemble it and move in pieces but that will have to wait for warm weather. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Blake Malkamaki]

Since it does move some, I assume you mean that it is not frozen to the ground.

That said, if the tracks are simply frozen due to rust, and it does move some, I would just keep pulling it back and forth and it should free up eventually. I've never seen one frozen so bad that it won't free up after a while.

Blake

[Carl Besola]

At one time a guy could pour fuel oil on them.

[Crawler Boy]

Just a thougt? Could you have water in the gearbox/final drive that has frozen and lock upp the gears and thats why it dont moves?.On my OC-3 there had come in some water in the final drive so it would not move when  i was going to drive it in the wintertime.

[walter hudson]

if you can back a trailer up to it ,and have a snatch block and cable ,and a heavy tractor. take some long boards and oil or grease them well and use them to let the tracks slide on, you can load it . i have seen people load stuck crawlers like this ,just go slow and be careful .
                                                walter
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[cletracboy]

I would do like blake said, pour some diesel on them and rock it back and fourth, it is also worth hitting them with a sledge hammer as this works well to free them.  I moved one that had sat for 30 yrs in damp old England and it freed up suprisingly quickly

[G Huffman]

There are many good penetrating oils on the market now days.  It might be possible to jack up the rear and place something under the track between the the rollers.  the weight of the tractor might be enough to free a link or two when the jack is let down.