Bandit44
Well-Known Member
Thanks Countryboy, I am new to running a dozer, but have been around long enough to know it never hurts to ask someone else the best way to do something that they know a lot more about than me.
It was a D6D .and yes it had a good Rops. nothing happened to the cab..my head just got banged up pretty good from hitting the side screens. small fracture in my scull..
You are lucky to be alive!! who did find you, some other guy working on the same site? it could have gone really bad if you had hit a truck or something before stop...
i usually go up really steep slopes, my guess would be 1-1 or steeper! thats on the motocross track, some jums are soo steep you can't walk up, you have to put on the human 4-wheel drive
when fixing the jump faces in summer time its no problem, but in the winter when the track is frozen and covered in snow, it can be really scary.
a couple of times the machine has begun to slide sideways down, once i saved it by smashing full throttle reverse, the other time (first) i just wenth down sideways with the machine, hoping not to roll over at the bottom.
I can just imagine how small you feel when side sliding down a hill, even those jumps feels scary, and they are not so high...
lately i was trying to make some jump faces with the Bobcat 763, i had to leave it, halfway up the jump the mashine begun to rise in the front end even with the loader and showel down... i wouldn't like to roll over backwards in a bobcat
my friend did it once with a 443 bobcat, he did reverse full speed with empty bucket. suddently the front weight came loose when he let of the steering sticks, the machine whent over one full turn backwards, and ended up on its side in a ditch... this guy could thank his fat for saving him, he could barely make it inside the phone boot sized bobcat, so he only hit hes head when rolling around, it looked incredibly stupid indeed
i just got done work a 1 1/2:1 slope on a 8Twith 28 inch pads, its not fun, had to keep a very big winrow when i ws runiing the slope!
Never seen a slope meter on a cat before only on graders. I wonder why we dont have those seems like a time saver.
Slope measurement ?
I think some of you are confusing measurement of slopes like percent and degrees , slope meters normally measure in percent up to 50 percent or 26.56 degrees .
a 2 to 1 slope is the same as a 50 percent slope ( 26.56 degrees ) 45 degrees is 100 percent and it not possible for any dozer to work on a 1 to 1 slope or even to climb a slope that steep without help from another machine or a winch , a quick way to measure a slope is with a Smart Level and as long a straight board you can find and read the degrees directly.