need to build a dozer style blade for my skid steer

[Rio_Grande]

I have a CTL 70 GHEL that I want to put a dozer type blade on. I have seen several of these for sale online for 3000 plus with the 6 way option. I am however thinking I would just build it as a straight bucket and wait till i can find a used Bob Tach rotator.

I think from the blades I have seen it needs to be really heavy. I just need some ideas on how heavy i need to make it?

The skid steer is 80 hp and weighs about 10500 lbs. I would think it should be one heck of a dozer for small trails in the woods. I just hate to spend 3000.00 for a attachment I will use for a few weeks and then neer or rarely touch again.

 

[Ken45101]

I would love a ss dozer blade but most people say they are not very effective. Notice that all the online video demos are pushing loose ground. Never seen one pushing virgin, packed dirt.

I think the angle is probably the most important to push the dirt to the side. That won't happen with a Bob Tach rotor. BTW, those aren't cheap either!

Myself, I need something to push loose dirt over the edge of a trail after I dig it out. I don't like getting out on the edge of the soft dirt :laughing:

Here is what I am doing:

I have an old 3pt scraper blade that has been sitting in the weeds (too light duty for my tractor). It is adjustable for angle and tilt and the blade will also slide side to side. I'm going to mount it on a blank skid steer QA plate. Maybe brace it some rather than relying on the pinned center rotator mount to set the angle.

Ken

 

[Rio_Grande]

I am concerned about the 3000.00 blade too. I also noticed the same thing you did ken that they never show it really working. That is why I was contemplating building a very heavy dozer style blade that the skid steer can push along in front of it to push dirt. The ability to tilt and swing would be great but I want to find out first if the combination of the dozer type blade and the tracked skid steer will cut the roads i need to cut.

 

[swick1]

All the guys who own them say they are for loose dirt only. Packed Sand is ok. Packed clay is not. Skid steers don't have the wheelbase of a dozer and won't cut flat very well. Even big dozers side cast to build a road. I say you should wait til you have the parts to do it right rather than twice.

 

[jmc]

Even big dozers side cast to build a road.

Could you explain that?

Thanks. John

 

[swick1]

Here's a picture...


If he's cutting trails I would hope that some of them are on side hills. The angle feature makes it easy.

 

[bcp]

Some interesting reading here:

CHAPTER 6 ROAD CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES

Bruce

 

[jmc]

Ah! Cut and fill is what our locals call it. bcp, that IS a good reference. Thanks, all.

John

 

[Ken45101]

Here's a picture...


If he's cutting trails I would hope that some of them are on side hills. The angle feature makes it easy.

"Easy" depends on how steep. This is one of the trails I've done. Personally I wouldn't want to try this with a skid steer/CTL with or without a tilt attachment.

Ken

 

[Rio_Grande]

The illistration is exactly what I am doing! Ken there are portions of my place that look alot like that!!
Today I was walking on the back part of my place and came across a rock wall I had seen before and never looked at closely. As I got to looking I realized that the wall was really a retaing wal built to hold the side of a really old road. I followed it all the way into the bottom until finally I realized the road in the back is going to be much easier than I orignally thought. There is still the problems in the front of the property but I cut alot better going down hill than I do going up!

Thanks for the link to the information!