jinman
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- Joined
- Feb 23, 2001
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- Texas - Wise County - Sunset
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- NHTC45D, NH LB75B, Ford Jubilee
<font color=blue>Yikes!!! Clearly I should have said "heifer-dozing". </font color=blue>
"Don't have a cow, Man." ...Bart Simpson /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
I'm not sure your walking path qualifies as "bulldozer" work, Harv. But without an adjustable toplink and a feather touch on the position control, it's hard to do fine finish work with a box blade. One of the things I use my box blade in reverse for is pushing brush piles into erosion gullys. My typical pile is 12 ft wide by 4 ft tall and I can do much better turning around and backing into the pile with my box blade than trying to push the load with the FEL. It's a steering thing. By turning around, I'm essentially steering with my "rear" tires and not creating lateral movement like when I'm pushing with the FEL. I may be courting disaster, but I use my boxblade as much in reverse as forward. My stabilizers on my lift arms are rigid and add additional support. If you "wham! bam! ram!" /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif with anything, it's gonna show some abuse. Sometimes, even when we are careful, things get broken. You just have to use your best judgement. I have found that lift arms can take a lot of stess. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif
"Don't have a cow, Man." ...Bart Simpson /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
I'm not sure your walking path qualifies as "bulldozer" work, Harv. But without an adjustable toplink and a feather touch on the position control, it's hard to do fine finish work with a box blade. One of the things I use my box blade in reverse for is pushing brush piles into erosion gullys. My typical pile is 12 ft wide by 4 ft tall and I can do much better turning around and backing into the pile with my box blade than trying to push the load with the FEL. It's a steering thing. By turning around, I'm essentially steering with my "rear" tires and not creating lateral movement like when I'm pushing with the FEL. I may be courting disaster, but I use my boxblade as much in reverse as forward. My stabilizers on my lift arms are rigid and add additional support. If you "wham! bam! ram!" /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif with anything, it's gonna show some abuse. Sometimes, even when we are careful, things get broken. You just have to use your best judgement. I have found that lift arms can take a lot of stess. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif