WTB:Tucker track adjusting tool.

[GYPSY]

Looking for a track adjusting tool for a steel track Tucker Kitten. This tool bends the track links to shorten the track length to keep it in pitch with the drive sprocket. This probably is a tool common to all steel track Tuckers with out adjustable tracks using a take up nose piece assembly. A hammer is a little to crude for hard to come by links .
Thanks,
Gypsy@rangeweb.net or pm.

 

[thepooguy]

bill at cooks equipment has them for sale. if hes out of them ill dig up one i have and sell it to you cheap as i converted my pontoons to adjustable nose rails. dave

 

[GYPSY]

Still looking for a track adjusting tool for a small steel tracked Tucker Kitten.

 

[Track Addict]

Not sure what one looks like but seems like it would be easy to make one. Will check on what I have for adjusters today.

Do you have pics of the kitten up on the sight.

 

[GYPSY]

It is blue and there were some pictures a few years back of it in the snow and on a trailer. A quick look tonight didn't find them but they must be out there somewhere.

 

[GYPSY]

Found one picture in a thread called "aluminum roll bar". Don't know how to post it here. Didn't find the ones on the trailer.

 

[muleman]

Here is your pic.

 

[Beartooth]

Gypsy, If you find one let me know. If you can get pics then I can most likely make one. I will need one any how for my Kitten as well. I am in Montana if you are close.
Beartooth

 

[MNoutdoors RIP]

Gypsy, If you find one let me know. If you can get pics then I can most likely make one. I will need one any how for my Kitten as well. I am in Montana if you are close.
Beartooth

I have one in the warehouse, I will try to get pictures of it because it is not for sale

 

[Beartooth]

Thanks Boggie. When you take some pics, could you put it to scale. A ruler or something.

 

[GYPSY]

There was considerable discussion in a thread titled TUCKER-TRACK TIGHTENING TOOL. There are a few pictures there but not of one in use. My long term goal is to modify the pontoons with track adjusters but in the mean time I need to adjust them by bending.

 

[MNoutdoors RIP]

The one I have is the factory adjuster, now I just need to find it! I do think I know what rack it is on

 

[muleman]

The one I have is the factory adjuster, now I just need to find it! I do think I know what rack it is on

Patience! Took me a year and a half to find my bench grinder when I had help moving to this place. While hunting for it I gathered up the stuff that belonged to my boys and delivered it to them. Dad's warehouse is officially closed.

 

[MNoutdoors RIP]

spent an hourly Today........ have not found yet......... look some more

 

[MNoutdoors RIP]

OK Looked Somemore

 

[DAVENET]

Even after seeing a terrible b&w picture in an old manual, that is not what I expected it to be like.

What is keeping the two bottom 'hooks' from sliding out when the bolt is leveraging down in the center of the link? It seems like the gripper section would be slipping toward the center of the track and thus forcing the link sideways instead of straight down. Obviously it works, just not how I thought it would.

 

[GYPSY]

I do not understand the use of both fine and course threaded bolts unless that was all that was on hand when the tool was fabricated. I do think that there are 2 so that the inner and outer links can be bent while standing along side the track with the ability to reach under the body. The tool pictured needs to be rotated 90 degrees to engage the "pins". This is not my tool-just a picture I picked up a few years ago. I can not get it thru my head how it bends the link the "hard way" or in a vertical plane and not just roll the track over.

 

[Track Addict]

I have the pleasure of meeting another member last night and he brought his tool which is similar to this one. You bend the links down and they bend real easy. Just like the picture with the yellow one above.