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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
[Re: centralala]
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05/31/17 06:21 AM
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If I just hired someone to do what needs doing it would be a heck of a bill. Add that to what I want to do and we're talking real $. I know the history of my machine for the past 15 years. I bought it from my cousin. I did a lot of work on it myself, oil, trans fluid , all filters , some new gauges, tapped and replaced missing bolts. Built the limb risers and clearing screens. I then took it to a good friend who is the best diesel / heavy equipment man in the area and told him to fix what needed to be fixed. That was brake adjustments, rebuild some leaking cylinders, 3 new hoses, little welding on the blade and a few other odds and ends. It's in pretty good shape. Now if I could just master the pedal steering. I can work the blade and make it do what I need but 5 pedals is new to me. I've operated a stick steer TD15 a little but never one where you use both hands and both feet!
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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05/31/17 10:39 AM
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I can't give any driving tips. My 650H is a 2004 and all joystick lol but I have never operated a pedal steer dozer You won't want to either, that H model has already spoiled you, haha The H's spoiled me, then the J's, the cat K2 im running is even worse, the joysticks are mounted to the seat and the seat is like a lazy boy. I can rake in my 650j 6 or 8 hours and feel like I been in a car wreck. I've put 16 hours on the meter in the cat k2 raking one day and felt fine when I quit that evening.
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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05/31/17 03:09 PM
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On the older machines I like the foot steer, used to run a 99 case 850G that was foot steer and had an accelerator instead of a decelerator, had forward and reverse with independent tract speed selection. Took a little bit to get used to it but once I did I really liked it. Worked awesome doing road work, put one track in high and the other in low and it would walk so smooth around the curves. I have a friend has one of those, interesting machine .
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/03/17 11:53 AM
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2Dogs, How long is it gonna be before you put a Toyota pickup cab on that? LOl, actually I'm thinking bout getting out of the Toyota business . I'd like to have all my roads worked well enough to get my old Chevy 4X4 farm/huntin' truck anywhere I wanta go.
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 06:41 AM
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I would have got a crawler loader with a 4 in 1 bucket.
You can do road maintenance with a tractor blade.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 07:24 AM
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I would have got a crawler loader with a 4 in 1 bucket.
You can do road maintenance with a tractor blade.
You won't on my roads or at least not for long lol
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 08:16 AM
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Huh.... well if you don't know how to build one I guess you'd need a dozer all the time?
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 08:24 AM
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I would have got a crawler loader with a 4 in 1 bucket.
You can do road maintenance with a tractor blade.
Wonder why loggers and dozer operators that work in the mountains don't use a loader with a 4 in 1? No tilt , can't cut a hill down, put in good water bars and turn outs, cut grade and such with a loader. Dozer suits my needs, BTW, I have a 55 HP 4X4 tractor with a loader and heavy box blade. These aren't flat land, all sandy loam roads up here, you can beat a tractor all to hell using it like a dozer round here .
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 08:47 AM
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Yea, I'm familiar.
I don't know now many years I can get out of a road with maintenance but it is a lot. I've had some for as long as I can remember.
Dozer is the correct tool for building roads.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 11:50 AM
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Huh.... well if you don't know how to build one I guess you'd need a dozer all the time? I was referring to what 2dogs said. You will tear a tractor to hell and back
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 12:32 PM
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Yea, I usually push all the big rocks and stumps out of the road and if I can't I go around them.
But that's just how I do it.
That way I don't need a dozer to maintain the roads but every now and again. Like I said, some have gone as long as I can remember with some dirt, rock and a tractor.
Couldn't have got it graded correctly without a dozer though so there is that....
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 02:28 PM
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I think you can cut a correct water bar and turn out with a dozer much better and faster than a loader. Much easier to angle the bar and cut the turn out. I've scooped them with a loader, those days are behind me now.
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Re: New management tool / big boy toy
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06/06/17 02:56 PM
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I think you can cut a correct water bar and turn out with a dozer much better and faster than a loader. Much easier to angle the bar and cut the turn out. I've scooped them with a loader, those days are behind me now. 1). Its just what I prefer. Doesn't make it right or wrong. 2). Talking about just a hump of dirt without a turnout. 3). Type of soil and debris will always be a factor on what's best. I'll still take a dozer overall comparing same size equipment. You're in very good shape with what you have.
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