More Dozer work

[RDG]

Heres a few more pics of another job that we done back in the 70s with me on the TD15 & scraper going down the hill. all the pics were taken with a kodak camera think it was called brownie 127 used to allways have it in the tool box on the machine.

 

[RDG]

dozer work

Some more

 

[RDG]

some more

 

[RDG]

dozer pics

and more

 

[RDG]

dozer pics

some more

 

[RDG]

one more

The main cut thru the hill when finished.

 

[RonG]

Great memories of the old stuff.I never tire of seeing these great pics!Thanks,Ron G

 

[gasfield315c]

did you have to drill and shoot those walls like that or can you just straight wall that kind of material you were talking about like that and it will stay

 

[DPete]

Thanks for the pics, I was suprised at the verticle cuts also, can you elaborate on that? Looks like pretty good material to work with, not the stuck part though LOL

 

[plantman.uk]

never seen a 'blade' go in that deep...seen a few stuck but never like that.....very nice pictures though thanks for sharing them

 

[michael james]

What an achievement, that is a great collection of photos to own and to be able to look back on.

 

[RDG]

The material is all volcanic in origin with pumice and volcanic ash very easy digging dont have to drill/blast, batters were all trimmed with the grader thats why its getting winched up the hill to trim the start of the cut, once it was trimmed we would take another 2metres of then trim the batter as we came down. The job was to put stop banks around and across an area of swampy land bordering a river down stream from a large paper mill in NZ so that all their effluent went into these ponds, the ponds were all linked together with cuts through the hills and had aerating machines in them to aerate the water that after traveling thru the ponds for several kms went back into the river a whole lot cleaner than it used to be.

 

[DPete]

Interesting project, thanks for sharing

 

[Construct'O]

Actual we have soil like yours it is loam(sand clay) and is located in the Loess Hills in western Iowa and Mo. It along the Missouri river in the buffs east of Omaha,Neb/Council Buffs,Iowa.

I work at Mound City ,Mo on I29 and we cut the interstate backslope like you did but came down 20' benched out 10' and continued down to bottom of cut.Slopes were 1/4 to 1 and we used a blade to finish the slope with the blade run out to the side straight up and down.

That was year 1970 used 637's push and pulls.Moved two million yards of dirt from April until late Oct. with 6-scrapers running double shifts the last 6 months of the job.You could work almost everyday run or shine.

Used a Cat 824 rubber tired dozer pulling a weggie board(21' box scraper).On the haul road.Great pictures and your lucky the dozer on the back slope didn't roll.Thanks

 

[RDG]

A few more dozer pics

A few more pics of access road to a hydro station and coupe of the dozers I spent many an hour on.

 

[RDG]

TD 15C new in 1974 on its first job ,the one with rops going to its first job April 1st 1978. the other is a TD25c.

 

[gasfield315c]

man i wish we had some soil like that around here, all we have is some clay and rock...solid rock, haha

 

[Wolf]

TD 15C new in 1974 on its first job ,the one with rops going to its first job April 1st 1978. the other is a TD25c.

big beautiful and powerful machines. Is that you in front of the International?

 

[RDG]

Sure is, man I wish I was that age again , was 28 and bullet proof back then.

 

[FWD]

I was 28 in 1978 too. I have a 1978 TD15-C now, but it took me a while to get it. Had a 1973 15-C that I put quite a bit of time on. Used some good parts off of it to make a good 1978 which I rarely use. Use more small machines of late.
Very good pictures. Thanks for sharing!
FWD