Glad it's up and running. Had a wonderful time meeting up with you and lady. DH heard there was going to be some kind of protest up near you Hope you didn't have any trouble.
Glad it's up and running. Had a wonderful time meeting up with you and lady. DH heard there was going to be some kind of protest up near you Hope you didn't have any trouble.
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.
And this is what "Mentorship" (I guess I made a new word cause my "speak and spell" wouldn't correct it) is all about......I'm going to print this, laminate it and hang it form my dozer somewhere handy. Thank ya Brother!
Be safe.............the night is your friend.
It occurs, Chief, that you could end up getting a fair amount of folks after your dozer not for its blade but its brute force... stump pulling, for instance, and building leveling, and post snowstorm ditch extractions. There are probably other applications past my imagination.
I wonder how much space and $ would be needed to get those other tools you mentioned, to where you could be self-contained fixing your dozer?
4-wheeler, tractor, rifle, all these can be had around here for various prices. It's Tennessee, after this morning's events in your town it could cause more political BS but I don't think it would affect us much over here. Oh steel plates can be had, I'll oan ya the one in my head, he, he, he......slightly used. I think the steel plate with "holes" in it at the end of your driveway with a little note "I can hit you from here" is always a good deterrent for would be ass holes.
Be safe.............the night is your friend.
I misspoke. I was referring to the tools needed for you to be able to fix the dozer without having to go to outside sources. Are there anything particularly massive? (I mind a crescent wrench used in the Army to remove main gun barrels... eight feet long and 400 lb.)
As to the post-massacre fallout...to blistering hell with the politicos on both sides trying to make hay of such carnage. They are less than vultures, inasmuch as vultures act true to their nature, and the pols are trying to front as though they are not using the dead to their own aims, when anyone with eyes to see or nose to smell can tell that they most certainly are.
148 days.... and damn to hell anything in my way this time.
mrrph.. babbling at ungodly early hour and no coffee... I humbly ask the pardon of the assembled.
Kesephist
As if I don't go off in giberish, I get the picture. The thing I could not do was release the 4 bolts the hold the entire weight (in the middle) of the engine and transmission....but first you have to remove the pans underneath that cover the engine and tranny, those are at least 1/4" steel and long and akward. Oh, somehow raise the dozer..... you know so you can get underneath, take out the bolts and have these massive pans of steel fall onto you tummy/head/extremity of a sort. Then jack up the (bell housing area) to support the weight while you remove/loosen the big ass bolts and replace with new one's. For you see, this all started with one......broken.....bolt. The new one didn't line up to go back in.........well fuck me Mr. Murphy.....again.
As far as replacing the tracks and drive gears and maaaybe some other things I think I could get by on my own. But not having a shop...coming soon. It does have a tendency to make some things difficult. So I had to bite the bullet on this one. There's one thing about me though, if I had to figure this thing out on my own. I would have done it. I'd have fixed it one way or another.
Be safe.............the night is your friend.
A thought... instead of raising the dozer, lower the floor... in a manner of speaking...
http://www.doityourself.com/forum/ga...age-floor.html
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