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Dozin Down Trees Techniques

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H2

01-10-2007 08:35:00




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I hired a guy to clean up a farm I bought a few years ago and he had some spikes welded on the top of the sides of the blade on his D6 high track. He used these to hit the tree up higher for more leverage to push it over. It worked surprisingly well. I don't know how much stress this put on the upper support arms, but they seemed to hold up.

Anyone ever see a similar pratice?




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2x4

01-11-2007 21:06:53




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 Re: Dozin Down Trees Techniques in reply to H2, 01-10-2007 08:35:00  
some mounted a wedge on the side of blade & split the tree, then pushed it over if it were too big.



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Windancer

01-11-2007 01:45:09




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 Re: Dozin Down Trees Techniques in reply to H2, 01-10-2007 08:35:00  
Physics is all about leverage. I have pushed over many trees with my small dozer. Push as high up on the trunk as possible. Once you get it leaning, it's the actual weight of the tree that topples it. And what is underground comes up in the action. My dozer does have the operator's cage for protection. I would NEVER do such without overhead protection, and power equipment and tools can and will kill and maim a careless operator instantly.

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seann

01-10-2007 18:21:48




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 Re: Dozin Down Trees Techniques in reply to H2, 01-10-2007 08:35:00  
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I've seen old pics of triangular/pyramidal shaped tube structure pusher bars that were used on dozers to push trees over. Or sometimes they just have an elevated steel tab with a serrated edge on it welded onto one edge of the blade for the same purpose. Obviously tracked loaders are also good for this, as their buckets can be raised way up to gain some leverage on the tree. And of course using a good ROPS is a real good idea while pushing these trees over.

Above is a pic of a modern rake/push bar for a dozer...

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Don K.

01-10-2007 09:01:42




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 Re: Dozin Down Trees Techniques in reply to H2, 01-10-2007 08:35:00  
Had a neighbor with an older D2 that welded some heavy duty pipe on top of the blade an had it facing forward. He used it for dozing cedar so that he could move the canopy of the tree and he could get to the trunk.I don't think it worked very well cause he spent more time welding than he did dozing.I have a good ROPS on mine and I just run through everything.If I can't push it down I build up a ramp to hit it higher.

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