Quote Originally Posted by Brownwater Riverrat 13 View Post
I ran the dozer Friday afternoon....i "tore up" the road heading down to the creek. With a bit of back and forth, forward and reverse, scrape a little this way and that I soon got the hang of it. Hey, I'm no "Eagle" here ya know. I got pretty much what I needed done up on the top and then headed for the creek..........There's a big rock bar formed in the creek causing erosion towards our property so into the water I went. He, he, he....no more rock bar, creek is nice and level and we can now cross the creek with the 4-wheelers and harass the hunters! Just in time to set up the steel plates across the holler, stinga-dinga-ding! So I should have the long range/gun range set up soon to test out the AR-10 and see how it performs after all that braggin I was doing before

Overall the dozer performed great, I'm happy, I went down there this morning on the 4-wheeler and it looks like I need to do a bit more work on the road. Different perspective from that height. Oh, well, more practice........
After 44 years of not fondling the controls of one you might have done better than me . You can sit stationary with her running and practice light touches on blade control to see how far and fast the hydraulics lift blade when only small adjustments are needed to the cut. Remember always ; as long as you'r sitting up straight you're cutting level.
If you're leaning forward push blade down to bring back your level. If you're leaning backwards pull blade up till level because your cut is too deep. I bet all of us ants would love to see a video of your dozer technique as you redesign the property. You got this brother.

Hell you could even pull up to a tree with a hunter in a tree stand with blade raised up against the trunk and ask why he's on your property as you gently bump the tree trunk. Just saying.