Cabel laying dozers

pretty impresive you would think with that much power if they did hit something underground something would break like the implement wonder how many miles they would drive before they knew it was missing haha

95zIV said:

I wonder if the reason they where using that much power to pull was because the pipe is actually feeding into the trench at the end and they're dragging the pipe down the trench as they go.

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i suppose you could, buy why would you want to? It is pretty simple to lay the pipe or hose or whatever on the ground and just feed it in as you go.

Unless the line is steel pipe?

They could be just pre-ripping the path the intend to travel, plowing the pipe in on another pass?

I'm stumped :beatsme

95zIV said:

I wonder if the reason they where using that much power to pull was because the pipe is actually feeding into the trench at the end and they're dragging the pipe down the trench as they go.

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A possibility but having tried pulling a length of cable through a duct a few weeks back I would not recommend it, way too much drag

watglen said:

They could be just pre-ripping the path the intend to travel, plowing the pipe in on another pass?

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I took it that was what was happening. I was being a bit of a smart*** with my original comment about forgetting the pipe.

Be honest, if you were going to the trouble and effort to pull a stunt ( in the best possible meaning of the expression ) like that. Would you really want to risk damaging whatever it was you were installing.
I would go for a proof pass then drop back and plow in the pipe / cable.
Apart from the fact that they may not have another set of equipment available to handle the pipe / cable.

This isn't dozers,but they are using a drainage tile plow.Installing drainage tile.Frost in the ground when they was doing this.

Also couple plow at a field day i went too this summer.:usa

Nice pictures! I like the plow on that Case IH.

Looking at the 8N in the first picture,I was wondering about wear factors on tractor & undercarriage.The ripper/plow is sitting a long way back,so the leverage factors must be big ,when ripping in tough ground.
Would cable-layer dozers be set up differently,to suit the work, in a similar way a Steel-Mill or Landfill dozer might be set up?
Any thoughts ?...

Jim