Your dozer photos

[Radrock]

me, what is that set-up for?

It looks like several have already answered that question already. We use to use 2 D-8's clearing cedar trees. It works very good, and like scub said. burn it off after it had dried up. I also seen an old guy use a long pretty large cable grading out over an old sludge pit. Of course this was several year ago. I don't imagine they would use that now days. But it was very wet and you could not get a dozer over the top of it. He just drove in circles around that pit dragging that cable and it smoothed it up slicker than a babies butt...

Them are some really neat ole picture RC, Thanks for posting those..

 

[old-iron-habit]

When I was a kid my Uncle Hurley demolished a row of old smaller houses in town for a street project. He took a long cable and tied it between his 2U-D8 and his 3T-D7 and drove one down each side of the row. Pretty exciting for a kid to watch when the cable cut through them old half rotted houses. Wish I had a video of it. He used to take old barns down the same way.

 

[Ole Gal]

Not all old barns give way so easily. The story as I remember it: "The Cat 'en the Barn" A farm in PA was sold, development began, and an older gentleman came out daily to observe. The superintendent one day asked him why he came out every day. He said with a smile, I want to see what happens when you try to take down that old barn. Oh, we will just push it down with the Cat, was the reply. Not going to happen was the old man's confident response. The day came if for demo. Cat vs barn. Larger Cat vs barn! Finally after some chain saw cutting, that old post and beam barn finally came down. The old man just smiled , turned and walked home.

 

[Radrock]

When I was a kid my Uncle Hurley demolished a row of old smaller houses in town for a street project. He took a long cable and tied it between his 2U-D8 and his 3T-D7 and drove one down each side of the row. Pretty exciting for a kid to watch when the cable cut through them old half rotted houses. Wish I had a video of it. He used to take old barns down the same way.

Oh yeah, I bet that was exciting. I got to tear down an old house with a trackhoe and Thumb once. That was a blast. That was back far enough that they didn't have video cameras on phones. I wish I could have recorded that as well. Gosh just think of all of the stuff we could have seen if everyone videoed the stuff they have done over the years.

 

[Andrew_D]

On those scrubbing chains, is there a swivel of some kind at the hitch to keep things from getting too twisted up?

Andrew

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair , , , Andrew_D. Lots of folks ask that, but no, swivels are unnecessary.

If you think about it the chain can't really twist.

That is not to say that some outfits didn't use them, particularly in the early days of pulling, but in reality they were just another high wear item that could be done without.

Cheers

 

[R.D.G013]

A few dozers I have spent time on over the years. Graders not supposed to be there,LOL.

 

[Benlivestock]

Couple of dozers on a vineyard prep job. D6c D8k D9h and one of my recent mods tint all the way around.

 

[Radrock]

Couple of dozers on a vineyard prep job. D6c D8k D9h and one of my recent mods tint all the way around.

Wow that dozer has the longest shank I have seen. I suppose it is used to create a deep soil bed for the grapes. I knew someone that worked ripping in the rocks for a vineyard once. They said that the vines really liked rocky soil?? I know nothing about that though.

 

[Benlivestock]

Wow that dozer has the longest shank I have seen. I suppose it is used to create a deep soil bed for the grapes. I knew someone that worked ripping in the rocks for a vineyard once. They said that the vines really liked rocky soil?? I know nothing about that though.

The shanks are used for ripping 5 feet. Most of our ground is so hard it stops that 9 with one shank. We have been doing some very steep and rocky ground. I spent 5 days on 3 acres raking rocks out. The grapes seem to do better in the harsh terrain.

 

[td15c]

View attachment 131494 my 15c with a little cottonwood tree

 

[Dickjr.]

The Komatsu is mine , the Case belongs to my neighbor. The Case is obviously a wide track model. Both machines seem on par as far as performance. The Case does seem to use a little more fuel but it has the bigger 6BT.

 

[td15c]

I will try again. My 15c with a little cottonwood tree

 

[Dickjr.]

I'd like to run a 15C sometime to get the feel of it. I'd like to add a bigger machine sometime and this would fit the bill.

 

[pafarmer]

View attachment 131498View attachment 131499

The Komatsu is mine , the Case belongs to my neighbor. The Case is obviously a wide track model. Both machines seem on par as far as performance. The Case does seem to use a little more fuel but it has the bigger 6BT.

Love the polished blade on the Komatsu....looks limeshe was doing alittle dirt that day....

 

[245dlc]

Some pictures of dozers I came across last summer. The little Case dozer was rented for a job I was working on but the foreman being kinda of a stress case said it was too much of a piece of crap to trim the center median slopes of the highway and demanded a JD850 to be brought in. I ended up doing the slopes with the excavator on most of it, the 850 made more of a mess than it was worth. I would of trimmed it up with that little Case but we were on hire to this company so I had to use excavator. The other pictures are from a local wrecker that also fixes up older machines for re-sale or for parts. A pretty neat place to walk through and amazingly nobody was around when I visited there so I didn't get any information on the machines there.

 

[245dlc]

A few more pictures for you guys lots of old time dozers there including that Cat RD-6 which must be a rare bird to see these days.

 

[245dlc]

A few more to keep you interested.

 

[245dlc]

Just gotta make sure I've got them all, gotta love visiting the junk yard when the opportunity arises.

 

[245dlc]

The little Case dozer at the end of this series is a municipal machine that was parked on a demolition job I was doing as the municipal foreman thought there was going to be a huge hole to fill in after so he also trucked in like 20 tandem loads of fill. In the end the hole that was left was small but the property kinda low so they'd probably work it in. I used the little machine to help tidy up and trim things nicely. First time I encountered a dozer with an accelerator instead of a decelerator but over all not a bad machine I had fun playing with it. lol The last couple are a D8H we encountered while out on a Sunday drive, looked like a nice machine with a parallelogram 3 shank ripper.