Typical Monday Morning

[Dirt Dogg]

6:45 am arrive on jobsite
7:00 machines are done warming up
7:05 first load of the day
7:07 get the chain
Only went over once today so it was a good day

[Dozerboy]

Ummmm what did it roll on I don't see much there or is he one of those gifted operators?:beatsme


The only thing I see is that it looks like it was loading hard to the right and with the side hill was enough to roll it?

[RollOver Pete]

I was wondering the same thing :confused:
:cool:

[Dirt Dogg]

The pictures are deceiving we are building a pond dam and the front slope is about a 4:1 in this picture. This pan is 18 yard and it is 9 1/2 feet to the outside of the tires, so right away it is top heavy. Most of the time we have no problem but occasionally when you eject slabby clay the uphill tire will run over a slab and over it goes. With the apron up and the ejector door forward it makes the center of gravity high. I will post some more picts when we get done.

[Construct'O]

The pictures are deceiving we are building a pond dam and the front slope is about a 4:1 in this picture. This pan is 18 yard and it is 9 1/2 feet to the outside of the tires, so right away it is top heavy. Most of the time we have no problem but occasionally when you eject slabby clay the uphill tire will run over a slab and over it goes. With the apron up and the ejector door forward it makes the center of gravity high. I will post some more picts when we get done.

Been there done that.Is that a converted over cat cable scraper to hydraulic?I have a 16 yard Ashland scraper which is not as tippy.

I did see down at the bottom of the first pic where the right side of the scraper had big chunks of clay and the bottom side was sliding on th slope.The chunky stuff is hard to unload on any type of slope with the old pull scrapers.

Looks like be do the same kind of work and just one state over.Good luck today.

[JimBruce42]

What kind of tractor is that? Doesn't look quite like our Deeres from the rear.

I must admit, that is one nice thing about the pull pans we have, they have a low center of gravity and are very hard to tip over. I'm running one of our 9420's with an 18 yard JD pan right now (pullpan, you might know the tractor:rolleyes: ) . The only thing that kinda stinks about them, is they aren't set up to be pushed, which sometimes I think would be a great help.:Banghead

[Dozerboy]

Thats no JD. I didn't realize some pans where that tipsy, but a almost empty pan with the apron all the way up make sense.

[bigblueox]

looks like a steiger. i'm thinking. I have a pt-350. am i right? looks similar to mine.

[Dirt Dogg]

bigblueox you win the prize its a stieger pt 350 and a bron 35 f pan. I work in some very adverse places sometimes and would like to have a hitch style pan but this thing gets pushed a lot and not many companies even offer a hitch style pan that can be pushed. Its not the perfect setup but it works great for me.

[DPete]

Hmmm, I've had my converted 463 at every possible angle within reason trimming slopes, loaded on one side, etc and it never acted like it wanted to turn over. Maybe the speed had something to do with it plus he probably had the scraper all the way up tring to dump that gumbo. DP