One of my favorite videos because it demonstrates the basic characteristics of this particular dozer. I suspect this dozer has a low time and has been pampered for re-sale. She looks great and sounds great. 🔧
Erika Krausmann this machine is being operated by one of the premier construction companies in Southern California. It’s definitely not being pampered. It’s being loaded down every day. Pushing scrapers and material. Ripping through soil and rock. This machine will not have an easy life.
Widower1 why would you say that for ? He was just saying how great it sounds and works . This is evidently a new dozer . No doubt your “premier “ company will run the shit out of it without proper maintenance and sell it when it starts giving you trouble.
You weren t kidding that this is as brand new D11T complete with mufflers facing away from the cab at the top.This was just introduced in the past 3-4 months.Over a million dollars is working here.The mufflers on this D11T have been moved away from the front of the cab where the older D11Ts were.I wonder if any changes were made to the C32 for Tier 4
I'm also 23, and I'm still obsessed with dozers and heavy machinery.... and everything else is fine with me. I think my world shines a little brighter because of dozers. Haha!
There must be enormous wear on these machines with all that grit in those rollers. I operated a Cat D8 on a wood chip pile the thing looked like new the tracks were polished to a shine from the wood chips!
Absolutely. They weigh around 100 tons, just the motor alone weighs 14 ton. They don’t move fast but they’ll run all day without fail, unlike many of their competitors.
I love the OLD Cats, Getting to deff to here and the feeling in my feet to feel the decellerater and my back gone ,but they say , a CAT SKINNER is allways a CAT Skninner? HA, LOVE THE SOUNDS, and SMELLES OF IT ALL!! LOVE THE OLD 17A CABLE Dozers TOO! Got to build your plain for your cut or fill!!! Blaine.
Love the D11T. Have about a dozen at work in the mine i operate in, wanna get into one of them one day :) I run 637 scrapers and run over topsoil and clay, so don't need the tynes to rip it up for us. even with harder top soil the 637s have no trouble at all scraping up the hard ground, but can see why the tynes are needed for the 631's. I can't blame you guys at all for not buying a new 637... they are expensive as fuck!
very nice. very good operator there to. he knows what them 2 top ripper rams are for. its amazing how many so called top gun operators dunno what there for or what they do.
:-) Thought you had it on steroids ... then I saw the two shanks after the first pull ... awesome stuff. Thanks for the upload.. the clack clack clack is a great sound to get a guy to go to sleep at night ... :-)
I see dozers in the UK backblading the whole time as long as your not digging in and it's alight glide over pass to fill in a low spot say. I don't see a problem
Thanks for this enjoyable video,somehow I have always been in love with dozers for what they do. Have a question for anyone, what causes that clanking sound on the undercarriage of this dozers. When I was a kid ny dad had an old D4 and I do not recall having this sound. I do remember it had an auxiliary gas engine to start the diesel engine of the dozer and at times it was a pain to start this gas engine. Thanks
The clanking sound is the grousers as they turn over the drive sprocket. There is a small amount of play in the track pins so as the grouser turns over I’d moved enough to creat the clank sound. That’s a normal sound. If the track is too tight or if the pins are rusted, you won’t hear it.
That's Jimmy sukut running that it was brand new after that job it went on rental and I ran it for about 8 months it sure was a nice machine I think it cost just over 2 million but we traded 2 old peace's of crap in and got a fortune for them thanks to the repower program the tax payers paid for most of that D11T..
This guy just start operating yesterday? The Frame of the Ripper is not a Wear Part. Lift up the ripper, please, and rip with the ripper shank, the way it's supposed to be done, and not with the frame! Then shift down 1 gear for ripping. That's way easier on the machine.
When I took delivery of a new 977k track loader Cat gave , me the operator a full set of 1/2" drive sockets, a cat watch fob, hat and Belt buckle, what does the operator get today?
The only real difference is the toy model that I have has a single shank ripperand you know I'm hoping that one day and operator will be nice enough to let me go up to the actual bulldozer and touch it if it is on site somewhere
Why not become an operator if it's such a passion of your's? If you can afford 1/16 scale models you can afford operator training. Finding a job is relatively easy.
Well I totally would love to be an operator but there's just one thing standing in my way I do not know very many construction companies that would hire a totally blind bulldozer operatorso it looks like 1/16 scale models is my way of operating 1/16 scale models aren't really all that expensive this bulldozer in the 1/16 scale model is just over $100and I say just over because of sales taxbut I don't have any of those really really really expensive remote control models that you see on most RU-vid videosi'm happy with hand-operated high grade plasticwhich is what bees 1/16 scale models are
That's cool dudeI probably would've thought the same thing if I was looking at this comment and I did not know the toy company on my channel I do a lot of videos about my toy construction fleet how I have it set up is the figures operate the vehicles and I'm just sort of the guy that pushes them along and checks to make sure everything is going good I have so many vehicles that a lot of my figures have to know how to operate multiple vehicleslike say for example the figure who operates my D11 also operates my CB34 road roller
I operated a komatso 135 with ripper , also tri-axle they have a lot more power than your standered track cat and I used it for a winter and I didn't want go back to the old girl at shop.
I cant help it, I have to say something. Dont ever back drag, I considered you point about rocks, tires are expensive but starting at 4:55 I noticed the machine tracking all the way to the way forward and dragging the blade all the way back and then going forward again. You could skim the surface forward to clear all the rocks in half the time and half the undercarriage wear.
I so remember chatting with a ""Miss Samuel @ TRACK MAC ENGINEERING A few years back and the damn woman told me it is not that big.We have one down here @ MAYO quary (TCL) Limited. What she talking about??? Damn machine is a monster!!!
Yeah baby!! I have a a brand new one in the shop getting prepped for one of my customers right now, good to see some proper action vids from you to mate and i agree frontrow with what you say although it is pretty creamy going at that point.but he would not be giving the GET salesman any unwanted sales of boots
Regardless of whether it's an appropriate time to backblade or not, you all would be very surprised to see how fast the frog wears out doing this. Sure it makes a nice road surface for buggies, but it would be even better skimming it pushing a path forward like it was intended to do. Backblading is a good way to turn up sharper rocks to flatten tires, even if the road surface is soft
