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13th July 2018, 10:03 AM #16
This build is moving so fast i almost missed it Bruce. Great job on the blade and the whole build for that matter.
Thanks for sharing.
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13th July 2018, 11:08 AM #17GOLD MEMBER
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Wow Bruce,
That is clever. Thanks for sharing your techniques. The blade has come up fantastic
Top Work
Regards
Keith
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13th July 2018, 07:09 PM #18
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15th July 2018, 11:01 AM #19Try not to be late, but never be early.
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That's a great machine build, looks like a Caterpillar D10? In the early 70's I drove a transporter shifting machinery among which were dozers up to Cat' D8. This was before the arrival of dozers with the high gear tracks like your's. We had two D6 which had different width blades, one possibly 12 foot wide was called an Angle blade and the other about 8 foot called a Bull blade. The Bull blade D6 spent more time pushing up gravel in the borrow pits, the D8 on the rock piles, whereas the Angle blade dozer was used more on site, road works, river protection and the like. The D8 had a single tyne ripper, the D6's triple tynes. With the triple tynes if necessary one or two could be removed, or more usually turned up side down, dependant on the job you were doing.
I haven't driven a dozer for over 40 years but still enjoy watching them work and the screech of their tracks is music to my ears.
I've taken the liberty of attaching a video of a D10 in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wonZCnx4BkE
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15th July 2018, 12:45 PM #20
Thanks Geoff for the video, it had dual exhaust, now I'm wondering if it's to late to fix that, but I fear it is.
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21st July 2018, 08:49 AM #22
Got er done
Well I got it as far as I'm able at this time, I had wanted to build the back scraper but just not in the cards at this time.
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Top notch job as usual Bruce
You have done an excellent job on this project
Regards
Keith
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23rd July 2018, 12:24 PM #24
Absolutely beautiful model Bruce, thank you for the beaut photo tutorial. Cheers, Peter
PS - Should I ask for a "riper tine" on the back??
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23rd July 2018, 01:43 PM #25
Crowie I didn't know what it was called but will be waiting a while for that as I need to stay out of the shop if I can for a while.
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23rd July 2018, 06:54 PM #26
That doesn't sound too good Bruce, I hope all's okay!! Peter
D8 high drive with ripper tine.jpg There's a ripper tine on the back of a D8 high drive
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23rd July 2018, 09:43 PM #27GOLD MEMBER
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As per Peter's post - I hope all is well Bruce
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Keith
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23rd July 2018, 09:57 PM #28
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25th July 2018, 06:10 AM #29
I can now say it's truly do
Thanks guys for the well wishes as my old buddy Arthur [arthritis] has kicken in big time and stay in extreme pain but once I get in the shop and sit down to work the mind gets busy and the pain is ignored for a while.
I said I wouldn't get to the ripper tine as crowie called it but after 3 day out of the shop I couldn't stand it and got to work.
This was one complicated but interesting part of this build.
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So now its finished for sure.
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25th July 2018, 06:21 AM #30
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