Here are some of our D9's pulling pans from various jobs we have done over the past couple of years. Everyone seems to be interested in this set up so I thought I would share some photos.
Yeah I work for Ess on a pipe crew but we are always working around the dirt guys. They try to keep the 9's running on 1000 ft. runs or less. Any farther than that we will use rubber tire scrapers or trucks and hoe.
I use to boss for a outfit that ran these setup (Cat&Pans) only we had D8 and I believe 463 pans these look to be homemade. They will move some serious dirt especially if you can set your job up to double haul say after placing fill, strip topsoil heading back to the cut. Just like stated we would keep areas to under a 1000'. Everybody thinks the undercarriage expense is high but it's not, what kills a undercarriage is "REVERSE" these machines never see reverse.
I use to boss for a outfit that ran these setup (Cat&Pans) only we had D8 and I believe 463 pans these look to be homemade. They will move some serious dirt especially if you can set your job up to double haul say after placing fill, strip topsoil heading back to the cut. Just like stated we would keep areas to under a 1000'. Everybody thinks the undercarriage expense is high but it's not, what kills a undercarriage is "REVERSE" these machines never see reverse.