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This is for folks that hate dozers

dieseldave

dieseldave

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Photo caption from the photographer's website- "Bulldozer in remains of logging camp on South Coldwater Ridge. Mount St. Helens Volcanic Monument. Washington" Ok, so what kind of dozer? Fiat Allis, I'd say.
 
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Ford LT-9000

Banned
It looks like a dozer with a arch on the back they are common here on the West Coast. Not really for skidding logs but yarding logs out of the way for road building.
 
digger242j

digger242j

Administrator
Photo caption from the photographer's website-
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You have to keep in mind that, to some people anything that is (or was) yellow and burns diesel fuel is a "dozer".

That having been said, it looks like a dozer to me too. If it were a loader, you'd expect to see the top end of the loader arm there near the cab, but instead you can see under hood components. I'd think that even with the hood missing, the loader arm would block the view of those.
 
PSDF350

PSDF350

Senior Member
Heres the back end of a timberjack skidder. Faileads look the same to me.
 

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itsgottobegreen

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Its defently a dozer. The rear logging arch is to close to the cab to be a skidder. You also can see one of the front cylinder for the blade.
 
atgreene

atgreene

Senior Member
Looks like a crawler with winch and an arch. My father had a small one when I was a kid, slow and rough, at least in Maine it was.
 
alan627b

alan627b

Senior Member
It's a Cat D8 H or K, I've seen a pic of it from the front. Do an Image Search on Google, using the criteria "Abandoned Bulldozer" or "derelect bulldozer" and it will eventually turn up. Along with a ton of other interesting stuff...
alan627b
 
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Dozer575

Banned
Well you can see that it has blade lift cylinders, and a Cat type ROPS.
It is a dozer with a winch and fairlead arch. It looks like a D7F or G. You can see the typical cat precleaner inlet bent over and the guarding around the fuel tank. Just look at a D7G photo of that side.
I bet John C or surfer joe will know.
 
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CM1995

CM1995

Administrator
mag6000 - That website is a very interesting find, thanks for sharing.:thumbsup Looking through the pictures you can't help but try an imagine each ones story and how they ended up abandoned in the bush. The interesting part is most of the machines, even in their state of disrepair, didn't seem to have some sort of catastrophic failure - other than all the missing parts of course.:D I guess all the discussion about dealer service and parts availabilty means more than we appreciate.:cool2 And also gov't stablility.

I spent over a month in Kenya after graduating college in '95 and those pictures of the landscape bring back some memories.:) When I was there manual labor was the way things were done. The folks I met didn't like alot of mechanized contraptions doing the job of several laborers - it was taking food off their table. Now it has been a while since I was there but that may explain one aspect of the otherwise salvagable machines at the time they were parked becoming abandoned. Just my thougths.

To get back on the topic - My vote is D7G with an arch winch.
 
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