edgarrian
Platinum Member
Ok so he should see the grade change or at least know what's coming. Im basically giving him the advice of how to move dirt from point A to B without jacking up his back. I have seen noobies on a dozer and while its funny it sure isn't how you should tell a guy how to run one without mentioning manipulating the blade as im suggesting. Clearly you just don't jerk the blade around thats certainly not what I said but clearly how you took it. Its why I said watch a video of a guy running a dozer. His right hand is moving all the time as does mine. Lets not make this harder than it really is
Sorry, but the smoothest contours that you make will be done by not manipulating the blade. The the rapid use of the blade controls by an operator is the result of the operator feeling a grade change and compensating, not just blindly jerking them up and down.
Slow speed is excellent advice. Even if you have to throttle down a bit just to learn how to adjust the blade to maintain a flat surface.
This may be intuitive or may not be. Before getting on the machine, have a plan of where you want to harvest the soil and where to deposit it, how you want to transition that to existing surfaces and how you want the new surfaces to look.