Recent content by Camdigger

Here's another. These guys just made it up a 2 mile 5% grade with this outfit and are heading down the 3 mile descent of the other side of the ridge. The combine cab is occupied BTW. Where else would he ride, after all, if he rides in the combine cab, he gets to pick the radio station... On...

I've been toying with building a 4' or 6' pan scraper for my small tractors. There used to be scrapers available that used stops and unique linkages to make a scraper function with just oone or at most 2 hydraulic circiuts. Anyone got any pictures or plans?

I first saw the ads for a minidozer in the Pop Sci/ Mechanix Ill advert section when the 45 mini dozer was new and the current model. I`ve always been attracted to dozers and have been lucky enough to sit on a few full sized ones over the years since. A few years ago, I set up a decent shop...

I first saw the ads for a minidozer in the Pop Sci/ Mechanix Ill advert section when the 45 mini dozer was new and the current model. I`ve always been attracted to dozers and have been lucky enough to sit on a few full sized ones over the years since. A few years ago, I set up a decent shop...

Like this? The load box is balanced over the rear axle, but the hitch pivots off the back rail of the box frame. Forward motion tends to pull the box down. Backwards motion tends to dump the box. Steeper dump angles would be achived by mounting the load box higher.

I just stumbled across this BBS . By way of introduction, I am a former Canuck farmboy, come citified engineer, come acreage owner currently living abroad as an ex-pat on the border of Europe and Asia. At one time or another, I have operated approximately 8 different models of crawler dozers...