Yair . . . Dunno, it's got me beat. This is a pretty simple concept. Folks have come on here and explained slot dozing and then bloody hell and fark, we get this . . .
You can't slot doze in anything that requires a far bit of ripping cause the blade is a lot wider than the rippers. You can do a bit with the blade raised.
willd8r. Mate, you do not try and rip the bloody slots except maybe to take out a guley that's giving you a hard time. You take out the entire floor of the area you are excavating . . . to slot doze material other than sand or top-soil/peat it
has to be ripped and mostly cross ripped.
The material needs to be conditioned so you can bury the blade the depth of the rip in a tractor length, that's the whole point of the slots, you take the material out in floors which in the case of an 8r I imagine will be a good meter a time, maybe more in good digging. you want to get the tractor down and pushing on the un-ripped material of the next floor down. You get better traction and the material can tend to flow easier.
Cam85.It is obvious you know what you are on about. I have never mentioned "soft pedalling" as I thought it may be complicating things for some blokes on here who a having problems with grasping the basic principles of pushing slots.
Good to see more Queenslanders on here and hope to read more of your posts . . . which brings me to formatting and punctuation.
This forum is a great resource for folks to learn and it would be much easier to comprehend and understand the good information you posted if at least you broke your post up into shorter paragraphs and used some dots and commas.
Not having a go at you or being a smart ass, that's just the way it is. (big grin)
Cheers.