Cub Cadet Dozer Build EP # 10, Extreme Frame Mods! 

When Roper/AYP came south I was fortunate to meet and become friends with several can do guys of that company,their innovative sprit and design solutions were great. Thanks for carrying on this educational entertain.

Wow that Lazar cutter is amazing. Love seeing the dog after you finished with the machine. Thank you for educating us.

My Schnauzer "GUS" does not like thunder either. That Plasma table is great have fun.

What a way to have fun love what your doing..

Straight edge guide for your straight/miter free hand cuts goes long way friendly tip from fan 👍 keep up the good work sir

Plasma makes it easy! If only I had one 20 years ago! Great progress! 👍🏼

I think you said on one of the vids that you were going to weld the track plates to the drive chain for your cat tracks. May I suggest that you weld brackets to the chain then bolt the track plates on to the brackets. Although it may be more work at first. it will be much easier to change out the plates when you need to. Also the full size machines all have bolt on track plates, it would be more authentic like the big machines. Just a thought from a fellow machinist. I love how you have kept both machines as authentic as you can with certain limitations you are working with!

Subscribed. Enjoy watching you build equipment most of us can only dream of building.

Fun to watch! Amazing what a man with an idea and a torch can do!

I am new...Came as a recommend. It's looking good I need to catch up to here.

There is always time to love on dogs.❤️

Man I found your channel 2 days ago and have binge-watched all of the dozer videos and I have enjoyed it greatly.

Love the new plasma cutter does such a nice accurate job

It's looking good! I'm jealous of your shop! I have to work in a tiny little shop and I sure don't have all the goodies to work with, but that's ok. I have fun anyway.

Looks really interesting. Almost like my Forest-Bear. A steel track mini log skidder. I will follow this! /Richard, Sweden.

Hey man you are going to in joy that thing.

I love my Cross fire pro. Almost makes a milling machine obsolete. You now can make 50 identical motor plates if needed in time it would take to make one.

Excellent video !!!

Great progress. Wish I had more shop space to add some cnc equipment. I'm all old school manual operation. Keep the videos coming.

Another great video. I don't have a shop anymore. That cutter table looks neat.

What shills you are demonstrating! I found your build a few episodes back and love watching your though process and the progression. I am considering retirement and start learning how to make things. I have a couple of Gibson tractors from the late 40's that I work on but no fabrication knowledge or experience.

I have to admit, that's very cool - What a great help that will be!

This is really cool you do awesome work

Love the workmanship and thought that goes into your projects. Just finished watching all your videos and I gotta say the grader is pretty amazing. I have been running equipment for many years and these things look like a blast to play on!

Lookin' good!

Now I want one water jets cool but so much more work when maintenance comes up these seem so much simpler and so much more reasonably priced I’m gonna start looking for one maybe 4x4 4x6 I doubt I’ll ever be using full sheets of anything if it can cut up to 3/8ths it’d do everything I ever needed and more sure beats a grinder and drill

Look at lead in and lead out options in your cam software to avoid the start holes

That plasma cuter works nice

Neat plasma cutter

Very nice!

Beautiful pups

nice job on the tractor. on the table, bring the water up .250 under the plate. that lead in chatter is from the backlash in those tables.

Love this build! I just can't figure out how you make each side turn in different direction!!! But I may as the build goes on! Love watching you channel!

Frank. Rethink what you said about your connecting rod linkages for the trunnions. The hydrostats are both facing the same direction so the actuators will both go the same direction for either forward or reverse. The only issue you might have is connecting the right hand lever to the correct actuator since they’re both on the left side of the hydrostat.

Looking good.

Can’t wait to see it push some dirt

I am not familiar with those hydrostatic drives, what is the problem if you put both in the proper direction and drive one in forward and the other in reverse?

For you linkage to the trunions you could take a peace a flat bar drill 3 holes in it the center hole would be a pivot point, then drill a hole above and below your pivot point then attach your linkages when you push the peace of flat bar shifter ahead your linkage above the pivot point will move forward while the bottom one goes backwards

Hard to fault a man who loves his dogs like that. Am I right? :)

you should be able to tap the edge cut part and the slag it comes off cleanly if stubborn use a cold chisel and grind at last choice

Just finished episode 9, and am watching episode 10. How are you going to drive one track forward, and the other track in reverse, for a pivot within itself? This question has been bothering me since the first time I saw the two drive gear boxes. That will work great in the forward, and reverse, but what about when turning? I know the gear boxes have differentials internally which will allow braking for one side while driving the other side, but how are you going to have one track forward, and one track in reverse? The little Truck dozer from the sixties did a great job with this but it was all with belt drive to each track.

Very nice.

I have a 4x4' table and that table is nice. The start should be in the inside of circle and outside of the outside. I think that is a setting on your software. We have different hard/soft but we both have plasma. Nice cut. Sounds as if you have a 40 amp plasma and doing good. Expect dross. You are not using a laser which is cleaner. The kerf size is needed on the size of holes. e.g. when you draw a line there is thickness of cut. Is it outside, inside or on the line ? on the line really - but half of the kerf is inside the hole. see software. Like you were doing - remember dogs and grandchildren need eye protection. Welder goggles work. They want to look. Eyes will get cataracts or floaters.

a piece of grating would work well for the foot-well , i think , then a sheet metal tunnel over the drive shaft , or grating all the way across if it would clear . think ahead , as i always say . any mud will just drop thru

Great video! Just a suggestion, I ran heavy equipment for many years and ran a John Deere hydrostat dozer quite often. It had two foot pedals to control forward and reverse for each track that leaves your right hand free to control the blade which you need to do constantly. It would make your life much easier to have pedals but you have probably already made it with levers...... Will the blade have tilt or angle?

I'm gonna be building my own little hydraulic bulldozer soon and I plan on using my new punch press to make the links for my tracks. They'll be closer to actual cat track links (narrow on one end, wide at the other end, all links will be the same). We could collaborate and I could make a set for your dozer. I'll be making some forging dies to hot stamp em out of 3/8" or 1/2" material

To have the front grill behind that frame is an abomination, in my very humble opinion of course. I personally would do ANYTHING to avoid this. Love you boyish enthusiasm and your honest demeanor, I share that, hopefully.

If you speed up the cut speed you should be able to get rid of almost all the dross on the bottom.

Maybe just the camera but it appears the access to the bottom points cover screw may be problematic. A small notch in the extension maybe?

Those goof-ups to keep talking about on the edge if you look on the back you'll probably see a spot or rust right there. I have been around an awful lot of plasma cutters in my life and I have never seen one that cut without "any" slag left on the part. In fact, in any shop, I've been in if they gave me parts to fit or weld with no more slag on than what your parts have I would be tickled pink.

Why were the finals not placed up in the normal high track position?

that dross will knock off better than grinding

Check lead in/out settings in your cad cam

Would really recommend a tip shield! I lit my desk on fire without 1 lol

I want one of those.

Did you will also built a wheel loader or a Front and Loder and a 6x6 dump truck please

Why are there 2 hydros? Driven front idler?

instead of adding a spacer for the hood why not cut the mounting bracket and weld a spacer to it as well as the dash, then if you need a filler between the frame and hood just use 1/4 x 3 plate on its side with some small tabs welded to bolt the plates on. Looking forward to see it finished

Ythats cool

G'day mate

By observing ,I noticed ,like mine,CCW travel pierices outside and CW travel pierices inside.

can you build something that would dig trenches in swampy areas and maybe tells us how to build your own metal shop or a garage, LoL

Hello sir I new in your channel can i ask u do you consider to use skid loader track or do you really want to apply bulldozer ask a track

Frank, I like your new intro music.

The lever problem is easy. On one side the rod to operate the hydro goes above the pivot point and the other side goes below the pivot point

I have dealt with similar hydros in the past I was able to rotate the front of the housing 180ﾟ and it Reverses the rotation but I don't know if you can do that with them

The headlights are going to be right inline with the grill guard with that extra box tube

When running my table I use a check list before I hit the go button. Has every thing from setting air pressure to making sure the ground clamp is attached.

Sweet set up. Great channel. Why is the water underneath the plasma cutter green?

Make some axle spacers to get out wider than the frame if you don't like the frame is wider than the flange for the wheel

Drill hole in frame to be able to access the points

I would love to have a big enough shop for a plasma cutter ! Just a side note , that is not dross it is slang. Dross is the impurities that you skim off molten metal before you pore it. .

The bad places in the edges could be impurities or contaminants on the metal

What is your profession?

Better cover that computer before hot slag does a number on it!

Just in case. Is that antifreeze in the cutting table? If so, it is deadly to animals. The worst part is, it taste sweet to them, and they will be drawn to it. Take care. Love the videos. Question? could the operators feet go inside the frame vs outside?

what model is your crossfire

All you have to do is change your start point for your cut

Hopefully that’s not ethylene glycol Your slats are to high the metal needs to be closer if not touching the water They make a additive for water that’s safe for plasma tables Try increasing feed rates you’ll get a thinner kerf and it affects the amount of dross

Has anybody ever said that you sound like Mr Rogers that was on tv.

It'd probably be stronger if you just done away with the cub frame

Yep all your problems are in your program slow down a little

I hate to be a person who can see that you put your transmissions in a crazy stupid way . The other it wouldn't have been that hard to make the frame wider to accomplish the room to set the transmissions side by side , yes your crawler would be wider yet your tracks could stay straight and true and just a little bit farther apart .

Now that you have the plasma cutting table maybe you can build yourself a magnetic grinding pad like Mike did. ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o-t046dVXEw.html. ) You may have already seen it if you watch Mike's channel but in case you hadn't I hope it helps.

45 min video of which 35 minutes was talking about what your going to do and 5 minutes showing what you've done off camera and 5 minutes of actual work being done. Unfortunately all these build series turn out that way. 90% talk 5% off camera work and 5% actual work. Not critsizing, just wishing for more actual footage of the work being done. For me Ideally id like a 5 min. intro, the weeks work in fast forward perhaps with a voice overly explanation of methods and reasons. I hope Im not out of line with my suggestion. I love the build and wish to "see" more of it! Thanks...joe