I ran a d10t d11r with coal blades for 11 years on stockpiles. Pushing 2100 to 2400tph... now I'm in a open pit mine pushing rock with a 8t and 9t. I miss my coal days
7:05 true artist at work.....astounding. Somebody else could have done it faster, maybe with a bigger machine, but I tips me hat to that guy. And I think ....no know...no blade tilt. Just skilz
@@shannoncochran6054 he is the real hero here for sure….🤣 almost as skilled as the guy destroying the engine on a grader while making a proper tit of himself!🤣
David Foster, this was not a TEREX, it's a EUCLID TC-12 that came on the market in 1955. The dozer had two 6-71 G.M. diesels, one for each track and the blade was cable operated.
...all the while the grader was up on its side goofing off, the oil sump was starving for oil because it was all to one side of the pan. He shortened the engine life with that stunt.
I thought maybe the grader was doing that because he could get more weight on that side of the blade, but there's 50-100 people watching and filming, so it's some kind of planned stunt.
I like how the guy in the grader is pulling handles left and right acting like it's hard to keep it in that position when really the blade is just holding it there and requires no real input.
Jack Ripper your dead right I just now noticed and the funny thing is I should have remembered after throwing my late grandads at rocks and concrete for years. It’s around two inches thick and puts store bought ones to shame
I have never seen a large Euclid with dual seats in it. Anyone had experience or knowledge with this, and what was it for? Training?. I ran D8 cats for years but never saw a passenger seat.
When I was a kid they used cat D8s on the spol heaps at corby steel works. On summer day one boiled its radiator and the driver got scalded. No cabs in those days bit like sitting in an armchair on the hillside
Actually in my 40 yrs of various heavy equipment operting...the dozer is one of the easiest and safest...to me rubber tired skidsteers requires more skill set even though it's small.
What is the steepest grade you have operated a dozer on? I t looks like they can climb straight up steep grade as long as they don't slip sideways they look stable.
But when push a dozer too far and it flips the damage is higher. Saw a dude turn as on steep grade. It slid side ways then flipped. He walked away but his pants smelled like shit. Well not really but he was shaking a bit.
I learned skid steer way earlier, so for me it's the opposite! Thrown into the deep end doing massive capillary breaks for commercial foundations where you grade hundreds of tons of rock with just a tiny skid steer in the middle of all kinds of columns, walls, and exposed utilities. On my current job I'm finish dozing for paving with a ton of crazy slopes and grade breaks, and I find it way harder. It's fun though
I'm sure there was. Surprised the engine didn't lock up from oil starvation or break the bead on the tires. Idk what he was trying to accomplish. He looked like an idiot doing that given the damage he was doing to the engine and the chance he was taking of doing damage to the grader. Guess he thought it looked cool when in reality he looked stupid for doing that
0theres nouthing dangerous about side cutting a road into a hillside with a bulldozer!What the hell do you think their made for?As a retired dozer operator with over 40 years experience I know when things become dangerous,that's the time to change you're method of operation! THERE ARE times when it's tricky not paying close attention to you're surroundings is what gets most men into trouble like backing up and over a steep slope or drop off ,I once had a tree come through my back window that i backed into ,nearly took off my head!like I said most accidents are from operator not paying attention to his work invironment
Yeah, had a tree tear through my cage on the dozer rear, and lucky the seat tipping forward told me something was up. Brushing with any dozer requires heavy guarding and double attention. Another sharp manzanita came through my front guards and just one more inch and my liver would have been out the seat back. Thats when you get to be like that pilot Sully that landed on the Hudson. Panic and you die.
Exactly I don't know why they call that dangerous... What the hell it ain't going nowhere I've been on a dozer going up the hill almost on a two to one slope when it was wet muddy.... I agree that ain't dangerous as long as the right nut is behind the steering wheel lol
Edit, my display on my phone showing it yellow, PC it's green That bulldozer close to the end, The Euclid TC-12, I owned one for a number of years, it's quite a different sort of crawler tractor. you can split it down the middle for shipping. It's basically two single tracked tractors... it has 2 engines, 2 gear boxes and 2 complete hydraulic systems just to mention a few. as you can imagine maintenance and upkeep are quite costly. Ive got a few cat's now, parts for even my D-2 and D-6's are readily available to this day. Not so with the Euclid stuff of even companies still in business. Euclid was a huge company during it's heyday and any of you guys my age 45+ will remember seeing the Euclid equipment for it lime green color, I thought the color of this dozer strange I've only seen a couple of Euclid dumpers in yellow before. As a matter of fact when I was about 4 The green Euclid equipment all over the hills developing the next phase of the housing tract we lived in was what probably imprinted on me that I became an operator as soon as I could. Great line of work it you can get in the Union.
