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I will tackle part of your question but with reservations. One issue is that if it is too steep for wheeled tractors than there are and will be concerns with safety and stablity of a dozer. A lot of people get seriously hurt with dozers going off on too step slopes and approaching the slope and cut wrong. Think safety, saftey, saftey. Alway do that with any large piece of equipment. What ever you get it should have a proper undamaged unrepaired ROPS device and a working seat belt. You will want full brush guards to protect the stack and air cleaner. Full underbelly pans, engine and transmission if so equiped. You will want as wide a track as possible to work with aka like car wheel base. Wider is more stable. You will want as wide a grouser as is possible. That will give you more floatation and increase stablity, and lessen damage to the land. While I like loaders, Loaders on a slope, if you are parallel, to a slope is like asking to fall over and get hurt anyway. You will want a machine with as good an undercarriage as possible. The rails, idler, sprocket and rollers. They must be able to adjusted and maintained to factor specs. If they are well worn you will have a track come off. They you will be faced with the problem of getting the machine out of there and the track back on. You will want rock guards that are in very good shape. They can help in keeping the track on. Make sure that the hook under the engine is there and in good shape and the same applies to the rear drawbar. You might have to use it to get pulled out or to stablize yourself to keep from sliding. As for type machine. I like TD9's but they did not come will factory roll cages. The 9B there are companies that still make the cages. Good luck wk
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