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  1. RangerJake72

    How do fire dozers do it?

    I just ended 13 years service with the Florida Forest Service, all of our tractor-plows (dozers) were specially modified with belly pan fire sprinklers, a water hose for putting out hot spots on or in the tractor, fire retardant air and AC filters. Part of our training was on the maintenance of...
  2. RangerJake72

    oil pressure issue JD 650J

    update for all of you interested (and thanks for the help and suggestions!) had the oil pressure sending unit replaced ~ month ago, no oil pressure warning lights, buzzer noticed during normal (fire) operations
  3. RangerJake72

    Favorite phrases you use

    "it's not rocket surgery" (from our old radio tech, a bit of a space case) we're not making corn flakes here"
  4. RangerJake72

    Air Filter Cleaning

    like LT-x7, SOP for us is to blow the outer filters out after working a fire, rx burn or any machine work, changed out at operators discretion, and definitely changed during PM services
  5. RangerJake72

    oil pressure issue JD 650J

    yes, the full fire package, uprated engine hp, fire program for computer. Thanks for the suggestions, I shall forward them yto the maintenance shop fo followup
  6. RangerJake72

    oil pressure issue JD 650J

    question for any of you out there with more mechanical know how than I. I operate a 2007 JD 650J LGP (see avatar) configured as a Fire Dozer (Tractor-Plow). Engine currently has 1939 hours on it. On the last couple of large fires I was working, starting having an oil pressure issue. OP...
  7. RangerJake72

    Dozer Transporter

    sadly, we the operators get little to no say in any of the equipment we get
  8. RangerJake72

    Dozer Transporter

    Actually would Be Florida Forest Service, state wildland firefighting and forest management agency. the transport bed is our own design, refined over several years, several other states and other agencies have borrowed or licensed our design for hauling, tractor plows or other equipment
  9. RangerJake72

    Dozer Transporter

    good luck on it, most likely low(er) mileage, usually well maintained, just the engine was derated, so it'll be slow to accelerate, we mostly carried 550Gs, 650g, h, or js or some d5s
  10. RangerJake72

    best way to clean out a plugged radiator?

    my agency Operators standard is blow out the radiators and engine compartments thoroughly with compressed air (along with engine air cleaner and AC filters) after every fire or Rx burn. IN an emergency we can use water to spray out the radiator coils, but it tends to collect more dust and trash...
  11. RangerJake72

    Wildland Fire Dozers

    @Dirtroad, the lift type plow is likely better in the fuel types you have in SC, or further north and west, blowy leaf or grassy fuels,. I need the extra weight and heft of my trail plow to cut through palmetto or malelucca stands or pines, along with the heavier tractors to pull them. It all...
  12. RangerJake72

    650J Over Heating

    JD, my agency runs almost exclusively JD 650J for fire attack, and we have been dealing with overheating issues since we first placed them in service 6 years ago we are experiencing the overheating sometimes within an hour of operation (bearing in mind the heat and humidity, the fact that we are...
  13. RangerJake72

    fire equipment pics

    those heavily reinforced military 5 ton 6x6 brush trucks do just that, they create their own paths through the woods to the fire. Used mainly in SouthEastern Massachusetts, Long Island and the New Jersey Pine Barrens
  14. RangerJake72

    Wildland Fire Dozers

    Here are a couple of photos of my assigned tractor plow, a 2007 JD 650J with a Fesco twin disc medium fire plow
  15. RangerJake72

    Engine Oil as Hydraulic Fluid??

    I don't know the reasoning why, but I know on our JD 650J dozers (tractor/plows) we run 15w -40 oil for the engine, and the hydraulic system, the hydrostatic drive system uses some other type of oil (we are told never to open it, just check the sight glass) on our older dozers (550 & 650G) use...
  16. RangerJake72

    Hour Meters - How do they work?

    I know the hour meter in my Deere 650J runs hour for hour, whether I'm running it at idle for morning check, cranked up on a fire or idling on a fire scene, the hours clock out the same as real time
  17. RangerJake72

    Scrub crusher .

    used a roller chopper towed behind an old JD 550g to clear many acres of scrub and palmettos to prevent wildfires, and in some cases for replanting on the state forest. it's a fairly common technique here in Florida, as it can cover a large area (bush hogging works well, but it doesn't cover...
  18. RangerJake72

    Wildland Fire Dozers

    Hi all, just joined up, I work as a tractor plow (as we call them in the South) operator here in Florida
  19. RangerJake72

    Welcome!!!

    Hello all, I'm JP, living in SouthWest Florida, I work as a Forest Ranger/Wildland Firefighter for the Florida Division of Forestry, much of the time I'm a dozer operator (tractor plow) Almost our entire fleet is currently JD 650J LGP with twin disc medium trail plows carried on IHC or Sterling...
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