How to move a broke down tracked chipper?

[Breezeblock]

pop the planetary covers off and remove the sun gears from both sides and winch it sheets of ply and turn it on them fairy liquid on the ply as grease kills grass

[CJM]

9/10 it's fixable on site, it's only a engine and a hydraulic pump, pipe fitters are on call 24/7. If the engine blew then I'd be hunting down a farmer with a telehandler

[paulb2785]

We had this happen about two three weeks back on woman's small drive way in Maidenhead would not start put it down to starter packed up

Had to use my hiab on transit picked up the chipper and had to slide the trailer under it and as the jockey wheel is broken / removed had to put the chipper on the end to keep the hitch in the air so could hook it back up onto the transit and then pull it onto the trailer pain in the ads but got it home to find the battery live cable had perished

[Justme]

If its the engine/pump, hold the tracking levers fully open & winch / tow it out.

[mendiplogs]

Always thought how screwed i would be if the tracked chipper broke down in the middle of nowhere! how would you move it, as in could you winch it onto a trailer? would it even move or would it knacker the hydraulics?

 

Hi mate how about a good hand winch that will pull it thanks John

[Timbermcpherson]

Fab up some dollys and rent a excavator. Jack up chipper, slide in dollys and tow it out using the exavator.

[PeteB]

Tracks have an internal brake which is released only when oil flows. If it is engine based and cannot be fixed on site, use a donkey engine and another pump plumbed into circuit and inch it off.

 

I have seen major works carried out on site before - inconvenient maybe, but sometimes it is the only way.

[openspaceman]

Tracks have an internal brake which is released only when oil flows. If it is engine based and cannot be fixed on site, use a donkey engine and another pump plumbed into circuit and inch it off.

 

I have seen major works carried out on site before - inconvenient maybe, but sometimes it is the only way.

 

Don't you still offer the option of a 12V electric pump in tandem with the engine driven one for this very reason?

 

Nowadays we have to have a crane available for lifting a dead chipper off site on rail work.

 

I have also had a 10 year old track snap where the wires had corroded through cracks in the casing but we were carrying a spare, it was an eye opener as it looked unworn otherwise.

 

Again with another we lost a track in mud on a hillside construction site and had to drag it out with a 360 to work on it, no significant damage to the under gear.

[Mesterh]

Looks like you have two options, winch it somewhere by inches if the ground conditions suit..

 

Fix it....

 

 

OK, just thought of a third way, two pieces of plywood in front of it, greased up.

winch onto plywood platform, then winch that on a trailer...

or just stick loads of grease on trailer an loading struts..

 

If the Egyptians did it like that, then so can you...LOL..

 

I'm fairly sure that when the ancient Egyptians had a tracked machine go down they phoned a hydraulic specialist to bring a portable hydraulic pack to site. Seen it on a documentary.

 

Got to be worth speaking to a local hydraulic firm if you run those machines just in case.

[IVECOKID]

Trying to upload a pic but not having any luck with me phone but has I said earlier you have to virtually take track motor off to gain access to the valve and remove valve to allow track motors to free wheel .....big job com .

 

Ste