Anyone here have bulldozer experience?

[ultrarunner]

One of the most fascinating grading I have seen is two dozers with the large on at the top and a slightly smaller one on a cable clearing the side of a mountain... too steep to walk or climb yet the two dozers had it wrapped up in about 10 days...

The craziest/skillful operator was a guy running an excavator putting in sewer lines... simply clawed his way up impassable terrain... creeks, banks, ledges... simply amazing what that machine/operator could do... would not have believed it had I not seen it... all I could think of is I hope he doesn't lose power.

My brother owns the 350C but gets frustrated using it so I come out each spring and do clean up runs...

Between the levers and 6 way blade you are in constant motion... but the 350 is like a little mountain goat... point it and go.

 

[Rebeldad1]

You might be much happier on a skid steer in sand

 

[ovrszd]

You might be much happier on a skid steer in sand

A CTL maybe, but not a skid steer.

 

[4570Man]

A CTL maybe, but not a skid steer.

Agreed. Wheeled skid steers suck. Tracked ones are amazing machines.

 

[ultrarunner]

Hit a patch of sand down at the bottom of a ravine... just could not get traction to extricate.

Waited months for the first good rain and then a few more days... started up the dozer and drove right out...

Moisture Content of the soil can make all the difference.

 

[Egon]

Hit a patch of sand down at the bottom of a ravine... just could not get traction to extricate.

Waited months for the first good rain and then a few more days... started up the dozer and drove right out...

Moisture Content of the soil can make all the difference.

No logs or evergreen branches?

 

[ovrszd]

Dozers have tremendous pushing power and traction. Until the belly pan touches the ground.......

 

[NC419N]

Dozers have tremendous pushing power and traction. Until the belly pan touches the ground.......

:laughing:My son found that out the hard way

 

[ultrarunner]

No... just coastal oak of very large size and sparse... dusty dry and the tracks were moving sand under a thin covering of dry seasonal grass just like a conveyor belt...

I was no worried but others thought I had to act immediately... I said it will be fine as soon as the rain comes... just happened to be a drought year so it took awhile...

The soil varies greatly probably due to a active earthquake fault... at least the dozer did not get swallowed up... but it was at the epicenter of one small quake... didn't seem small when you are on top of it but 3.8 is what USGS showed.

 

[4570Man]

Dozers have tremendous pushing power and traction. Until the belly pan touches the ground.......

I don’t see much danger of getting the dozer stuck. They’ve already worked it with a wheel loader.