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Dozer or Trackho???

BSK said:
This will sound childish, but learning to operate heavy machinery - especially a bulldozer - is on my bucket list. What I wouldn't give to know how to use one. I have so much need for bulldozer work, yet can't find anyone who wants to do it.
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I'm by no means an expert excavator or bull dozer operator. But if you aren't on a time crunch they aren't that hard to learn. You won't be a pro by any means but you can learn to get by with it. Just like with anything it's just time.
 
I just need roads built. Not great roads. Not roads you can drive a car on. Just ATV/UTV roads that won't wash out in the first heavy rain. But ever dozer operator/owner I contact is too busy leveling new home sites. And I don't blame them. Home sites are a lot easier and easier on equipment than building roads cross country through steep ridge-and-hollow terrain.
 
Ask the operators that you are getting bids from what they suggest. For what you are wanting to do, I would go with a trackhoe. I would probably rent one though, and do everything around the farm I could think of.
 
I attemped to dig out a 3' maple stump with a full size ford backhoe, no luck after digging down about 4' and cutting all the side roots, I gave up chain sawed it below ground and covered it back up, it would have takin a big track hoe to pop that 1 out, I use to hear dozer guys say to leave a certain height so they could push them out, not sure if that's true or not, I think I would prefer a very large high lift, it operates more like a big ass bobcat lol
 
mike243 said:
I use to hear dozer guys say to leave a certain height so they could push them out, not sure if that's true or not, I think I would prefer a very large high lift, it operates more like a big ass bobcat lol
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Leverage helps. We had a lot of logging done, but particularly in the areas we were going to put food plots, we had the logger cut a little higher up for dozer leverage later on. It helped our operator
 
Dozers are more common and easier to operate and get delivered but a large excavator with a good operator can really get after those big stumps and is great for getting the dirt off the stump. Then you're gonna need a dozer to finish grade and fill in holes. My brother is a top notch excavator operator but is slow to the point of giving me a headache.
 

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