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A large 4x4 skip loader would be up to the grading. You can angle/tilt the box blade for contours.
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Choosing a farm dozer
- Thread starter slabguy
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pdbigsky
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Why a 6 way blade--can angle and grade. If blade is always at same angle as tracks, the you can't change much about keeping surface graded to get water off quickly or clear the ditches. Tracks vs tires??? depends on use, I have both--JD 4020D, Kubota L3400, Dresser TD7G, CAT 311C, Kubota SVL75. Have had wheel NH & BC skid-steer, BC track-steers, the Ford trac. mentioned ,etc. All depends on terrain & use. If you have thorns, which I had on farm in IL which caused me to get the Case 450 dozer, they eat tires!!!! Track units are much more stable than wheels. Most of my TN place is inaccessible or at least unsafe with wheel tractor though my Kubota 1140 CPX is great on timber trails. I'm almost 80, so I'm looking for the easier way to do things.
I should have added regarding weight of unit. I had long time operator with 65K# dozer here with straight blade doing what mine cannot do, & I mentioned the difficulty of holding steady with my Dresser. He said that it is much easier to hold position with the big unit. And a small unit without angling would be pretty useless.
I should have added regarding weight of unit. I had long time operator with 65K# dozer here with straight blade doing what mine cannot do, & I mentioned the difficulty of holding steady with my Dresser. He said that it is much easier to hold position with the big unit. And a small unit without angling would be pretty useless.
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Tinkerer
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Total BS for the most part. I do agree that anything below a D6 size machine is much more capable of high production with a 6 way blade.
I ran every size dozer and push cats from D10s down to D3s. Each one has its place depending on the job being done.
I spent many years cutting grade with D8s. H , K and 8Ns. They all had tilt blades.
A D5 or JD 450 class machine with a 6 way blade will do everything the OP described in his opening post.
I had to cut grade for some of the most demanding site engineers that ever came on a job.
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doublewide
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New property in the country ? Road to grade , knock down some trees & hog out a spot for some buildings .
I would recommend a Ford 545 Dozer . Allot of people did not realize Ford built a dozer . LOL
4 wheel drive with heavy loader up front and 3 point hitch & PTO in the rear for attachments . Bush hog, box blade , post hole auger …….
Can't think of any task it wont do …
Will flat make a monkey out of a small dozer or CTL on cost maintaining rural ground
https://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/farm-equipment/for-sale/81389321/2001-ford-545d
I would agree.
If I was only gonna have one machine it would have rubber tires. Dozer would be second machine.