Sweco 480 (Sutter Equipment) with Slopeboard cutting backslope on steep ground. More of a soil profile on this ground so I was laying it back a little more.
We built roads like these using a Yanmar mini excavator. Miles of them. Then touched up with 289CAT CTL. We had more rock. Shale not much sand like that. Nice job 👍
🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣 it’s a cool little set up though, looks like the perfect tool for really tight spots and grading/cutting steep hillsides. I’m not an operator by trade, but have a bunch of seat time in small equipment like bobcats/cat excavator (I own a 304) it’d be a really cool job though, but like anything else it’ll suck after a while when you’re getting checks.lmmfao
Do you have any more videos? I bought my Sutter 480 a year ago this December. Been getting some good use out of it on the ranch starting this last spring. I had an old D-4 years ago. Sure like this small Sutter Dozer. I can haul it with my 4x4 3/4 ton Dodge diesel, makes it handy. What state are you located in?
Like the comment above says, you cut the slope as you go, not after you are done. The slope board is a finish tool, not for hogging dirt out of a bank. This is pretty bad machine abuse.
Don't know how long that road will stick with just top soil if looks counted for anything he would get a A hope it sticks to the grade,oh that poor slope board sure took a beating
Not an operator but that’s what I was thinking. That blade doesn’t look like it’s meant for that, not enough support I’d think and the machine don’t look like it was designed to do both at once.
That batter blade is about as strong as the main blade. It's mounted at 3 points in a triangle. The load on the hydraulics is all straight down the cylinder so not an issue. I would have thought a 3 or 5 ton excavator with a tilt bucket would have been more productive and cheaper to operate. But you use the machine you have not the one you would like.
Those are cool machines, but way overpriced and parts/service a challenge. Would be smarter to just get a CTL if you need something with a smaller footprint than a standard dozer
It's a recreational trail not a road for vehicles, other than topsoil that's all the dirt you're gonna get in the Mtns, they'll take these machines miles back in the woods and build trails and fire breaks, maintenance of trails, hence the small machine.
My guess is that this "First year operator" knows a hell of a lot more about the machine and the conditions prevailing than an youtube expert like you.
