My father ran and worked a cat across the isthmus of Panama blazing the trail for the trans-isthmian highway , the first road to carry motorized vehicles. He was the first person to cross the isthmus on a motorized vehicle .👷🏻
I ran 46A D8's for Weyerhaeuser out of Klamath Falls for years and still love them. The D8 in the video seems like it's down on both engine power and hydraulic pressure. Super cool to see her working though!
I got to disagree. That's a good operator that knows his tractor. He's going easy on the final drives. If you'd ever had to pay to have a set rebuild then you'd understand why he ain't raw dogging that ol beast.
They are a good Dozer the D8 My dad did logging,land clearing,air strips for crop dusters,and originally started with a D4,D6 and finished with a D8 Good balance for the type of work he used to do
I've been a contractor for 30 years and I have noticed everybody who tells other people how to do their job and act like they know better don't know their ass from a hole in the ground
Thanks for your smart mouth reply. I know what you don't know. I grew up on a poor farm and did most jobs by hand. That job would have taken weeks with a shovel, an ax and a mattock. I doubt if know what one is, let alone used it. Not only that, I was a US Navy SeaBee. Later, I earned my mechanical engineering degree, worked in refineries and managed many multi million dollar projects. It is better to keep ones mouth shut and thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
The TROUBLE !! IS !! CONTRACTORS !! LIKE !! YOU !! ALWAYS !! END !! UP !! BRINGING !! THE !! WRONG !! PIECES !! OF !! EQUIPMENT !! TO !! THE !! WORKSITE !!!!
I had those same engine covers on my D8H. They made maintenance a pain, and if you needed to work on top of the motor, had to take the hood off and bend over the side covers. They weighed so much that the only way they could be handled was with the truck crane. Paid $1000 for those things, they were in the scrap pile only a couple years later. If you need brush protection, your mechanic can build a light weight, easily removable grid out of re-bar for a fraction of what those junkers cost, and lower your maintenance costs, cause it’s 1 hour to R and R those panels if you’re doing anything more than changing the air filter. To add insult to injury, the LH panel has to be trimmed so the element will come out of the housing!
Those big old Grove stumps don't give up easy. Where I build roads I run into old growth all the time I have a stump splitter makes it easier, saves time and ware and tare .
One tuff nut to crack. I have been there and it had to go, it had my attention and wasn't gonna let it beat me. Talk about power and how to multiply it, that is raw power.
Lots of armchair cat operators on here.. this guy did ok.. that wasn't a real old stump, still well rooted. the video was only 12 1/2 minutes, not inclusive of the time to drive to the landing, and seemed mostly uncut once he arrived and started working... not bad time on removal of that with a D8..
Yup, in that soft ground with limited access, that was decent work. A lot of know-it-all armchair clowns spouting off - 8H wasn't the most powerful even when new
@@oldstudbuck3583 right on man you tell him..lolo 40 years ya i bet in 40 years he never did anything wrong..he must of been a kiss ass to the boss...we all know those 40 years guys...there shit dont stink lolo.
I used a Hitachi EX400 to dig out a big Cedar stump near Ketchikan, finally moved it to the edge of (new road ROW), sent it crashing down the mountain. And having lifted steel bridges with the same excavator, I could tell that the stump weighed in excess of 30,000 lbs!
Them ol gals were heavy and a full day on one and your man now the old iron was never easy the kids today have no idea I run equipment and am glad AC, radio w Bluetooth, nice seating low noise in cab Yep a week on this ol gal and your in pain Love this shit tho
Those trees grew for years that stump is home . Hard to get something to leave home . A live oak is a beast pushed one or seven years ago .with a D8 k good dozer .
I agree Raymond. Don't know why he didn't push more away from the other side of the stump 1st. Would have made it way easier to push out. Gotta love those old cats tho don't you. Can't beat the sound and longevity of these great old machines. My dad has a d7 17a. Can't beat the noise that big old 4 cylinder non turbo makes.
On a stump that size I always got away from it around 8 feet and started breaking off roots. That way when you got a lot of the big top ones broke it'd spin and come loose BUT that's just me. Fine old 8 there.
Where was this? As far as Redwood stumps go it wasn't that big. I grew up logging in Humboldt county CA, most of my D8 seat time was in an old cable blade from the 1940s. I could tell the cat skinner was a little inexperienced in stump removal but we all were at one time or another.
I went to High School in Hayfork in Trinity Co. in 1977 and had the pleasure of working for the Godfreys my junior and senior yr, they owned the Feed Store and he had an old grader that he taught me on plus the old Freightliner 13 speed. Those were the glory days and the beginning of my many yrs of working with heavy equipment. Thanks Dave, Becky and Danell. Your giving to the community will always be remembered
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Those cats keep on ticking in any condition i grew up running all of them from the ole dry clutch cable 3 t D 7 s cable rigs to the 8 h s. You need a C frame instead of a straight bull blade frame and a Fleco stump block with a splitter on it to widdle that monster out ,, Were can I get a fair lead arch for my D 7 G winch
I use a fleco stump block with a splitter fabricated on the left side ,,but pined on a C frame type cat angle blade with blade off , not straight blade, just split it down the middle and grub away, the K G blades are sort of a one angle to saw or web not grub
@@justinbrown5085 So You ! Are Telling Me ! There's Concrete Trees ! Brick Trees ! Metal Trees !! My FAVOURITE !! ONE'S !! ARE ! THE PLASTIC !! TYPE !! OHH ! and! Rubber !! Too !!
A grizzly old timer told me one time when I told him I had 10 years experience " looks to me like you got 1 year 10 times" I learned to keep my mouth shut after that
That's ridiculous nowadays...I've popped stumps like that with a 200 class excavator in half the time and disturbed 1/3 the amount of ground...this is an example of bygone days.
One thing I have noticed Yank machines very rarely have rippers on them, in Australia its the opposite they rarely have winches, and most have rippers.
the only track machine l ever took a stump out with as a John Deer 450 crawling shovel , 18” oak , my first experience took about 1/2 hr, we were clearing for a gravel pit , years later when l bought my self a 580k Case l removed many ponderosa pine, 42”on stump,by digging 6ft trench around it put the backhoe bucket up against the tree bring it down pushing the tree over some , dump the bucket , so teeth go into tree then ex tend the boom . The tree pulls the stump out . Then log out the tree.easy peezy
On my d 7 g angle dozer I don't use the blade is have a fleco stump block with a home made splitter about 6 ft long 6x8 heavy metal attached to the left side of it I pin it on the cat c frame splits an grubs stump in no time there fairly rare to find
I seen one of these setting behind a wal-mart super center for at least 10 years , back when they were building super centers everywhere, i was a truck driver and delivered to this store every week , one time I ask the manager why were these machines just setting , he said the company said it cost more to move it than its worth , he said do you want it ? , I'll ask corporate. I thought if I had the equipment I would take it to my farm , but I didn't so I guess they just scraped it .
Tough old stump, and a tough, good pulling old dozer. A good bit of work, but it got it. This scenario is silly, and very unrealistic, I know, but I was imagining The Big Muskie, which has been melted for scrap metal for several years, but was the biggest dragline ever built, sitting to the right of this video. I also picture it dropping it's 200 yard bucket to the left of this video, getting a good bite, and reeling it in, taking all the trees and stumps, in the picture, and within the width of the bucket, out of the ground, in one drag of about 30 seconds, and dumping them 600 feet away, if that would be what was called for.
As someone who spent a lifetime on equipment they sure was alot of useless movement with a powerful machine like this D8. Got another question what's up with the title I seen no rescue? Rescue of what? Looked to me the operator needed rescued I have pushed stumps twice that size with a old TD 15 international building well locations for drilling rigs. It's not rocket science angle the blade up and dig down around those roots til you find the bottom of the root ball. Move to the weakest side put your blade about half way up and start pushing out and up. This will loosen it till it pops out of the hole. Until the root ball is excavated your wasting time and energy trying to push on a stump this size.
Liked, but seriously Ken, don't you see this man did it the exact same way you did. Take a good look at big chunks of roots coming out. Damned good size stump to begin with. Old girl did the job!
Na it is the wrong equipment for the job of pulling out those stumps. That dozer is making more of a mess that getting the job done. An excavator with a clamp bucket would have 4 done in time any dozer could do it. After the stumps are removed then use the dozer to level the path way.
@@samboslc did you not read of course I seen the big roots that wasn't the issue it was the wasted time and movement getting them out. The problem isn't the machine it's the operator.
@@taistingtheair1368 I agree an excavator is more efficient for stump removal but alot of outfits can't justify the cost of an excavator. So you use what you have like I said I have built well locations for years and taken out thousands of big stumps. You just have to know how to dig them out. I only ever ran into one I couldn't dig out but it was a monster hickory. If you know anything about hickory it grows a large water root straight down and this one must have been 10 feet deep. it was on lower side of a road and I would have destroyed the road digging the thing out. So I just dug out around it cut the thing off below ground and buried it right in the road. Worked perfect and its still buried their today after must be 30 years now.
90% of it is “Having an experienced operator in the seat!” The machine is only doing what it is being told! Tree stumps without trees around them are by far the hardest stumps to get out! They all have Bigger & Deeper roots! ‘But what do I know?’
I agree. Nothing beats an excavator and a D8 together for digging stumps! We had actually built this landing the year before. This was a last minute favor to the logger who is a good friend. Our excavators were 30 miles from here the only machine we had left around was this D8 and as you can see the yarder crew were sitting there waiting for us. And what you can’t tell in the video is that it was early spring. The ground is muddy and there were logs lying on the back side of the stumps. Not an everyday example of digging large redwood stumps!
I dug out a Cedar stump in Ketchikan that I guessed weighed over 30000lbs. Using a Hitachi EX400, took over an hour to get it to move...then when it started sliding down the gully, it took standing timber and stumps alike, with it to the bottom! I made real sure to " let go of it"!!
Inexperienced English speaker. They are tracks, not tracts. RU-vidr with more than grade 8 can easily write a complete sentence without making a spelling error.
Yes I have a fleco stump block with a splitter on the side mounts on a d 7 g I pushed millions of pine stumps in florida back twenty years ago my dad started stumping back in 1945
@@raymondquave1237 we built 8 foot wedge that pivots off the hitch and goes up and down with winch on aD8h. We build roads on east side of coast range a lot old growth stumps
Approach on the stump is all wrong, angle blade get alongside the stump take out the soil either side and skud out the side roots, then blade up square on and push over the top, lotsa diesel wasted, nowdays would just use excavator to pull away the soil and nudge out, This is making hard work, hard on machine and time consuming. Seems to run alright for an old gal though!/
You have no clue. Those 8s are slow and cumbersome and not particularly powerful considering their size. Worn tracks, old engine, soft ground, hillside all working against a well-enscounced, deep-rooted stump. Operator did just fine.
Go around the other side dig there an always push the dirt and roots way away from the stumps make a clean work area,, your just making to many short usless passes been doing this for 40 plus years
The machine is an old beauty, though it sounds under powered, and looking at the exhaust it looks to me like the turbo is taking a shit, way to much white smoke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waste of time to use a dozer to clear stumps. Far faster to blast them out or use an excavator to dig them out. Sure a dozer can move dirt horizontally, with enough time it can clear a stump out, but the crew waiting for the stump to be cleared is costing money doing nothing.
More a job for a front end loader, or a large back hoe. No need for traction. Just brute hydraulics along with a nice clenching bucket. Just so much a dozer can do. Need to be able to scoop and drive it.
