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Hi Taylor, scrapedozers where originally designed to cope with the wet conditions often found in Europe. And clay mixed with sand sounds like a real good "scrapeable" material, but you seem to have problems with traction. Got you right? According to Frutiger, on a distance of 300 yards hou...

That construction site where I took these photos had soft, wet top soil. Dont know how to compare to your situation, but the machine seemed to handle it very good.

Hi Taylor, I'm not an operator - but I'll share what I know abou them. I hope that will give you an idea how they work. They are an scraper bowl on tracks. And for an tracked earthmover, they go fast! The pictures below show a Frutiger SR 3000, the biggest scraperdozer built. I wached it removing to...

Dug out the homepage of Helmut, he's the operator I told you about - and he is also an tallented craftman as he knows to recreate these crawlers in 1:10! First a beatiful rc-model of the T-100 - wich was THE bread-and-butter bulldozer of eastern countries. As far I understand it, it's based upon the...

Yeah, that was my first impression, too. But a closer look reveals that the turbocharger and exhaust is front of the operator on the left side and the twin air intakes are on the right side...on a D9 its the other way around. Dashboard looks to modern for a D9D, more like on a D9G....and these funny...

Found this interisting picture of a cable dozer declared as a Komatsu D250: http://baggergalerie.blogspot.de/2011/08/komatsu-bulldozer.html Looks like a Komatsu-version of the Cat D9D. Anyone ever heard of them? :wtf: Maybe Komatsu first steps into the big dozer biz. Could be a direct drive model li...

Hi, Folks. These dozers are diesel-electric drive as FCGH said. Built in several places in Russia from about 1961, they have a bit of a reputation for keeping going in the Russian winters when pretty much nothing else will. Their latest 'baby' is the T800 with specs almost exactly like the Cat D11T...

Hi Dave, found a video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=cU56OxYl4Zg&NR=1 Looks like testing the drawbar pull. The towed "scoolbus" crawler looks like a converted old DET 250 into a mobil testing laboratory. As far I Know, these diesel-electric crawlers h...

Hello Dave, . looks like a Chetrak DET 250, a Diesel Electric Tractor with 250 horses and round about 33 tons. Maybe the machine you saw was the next model, a DET 320 with increased horsepower and modernized cab. I believe they are built in the Ukraine. Torsion bar sudpension undercarriage and when ...

Hello there,

my name is Max, I'm 29 years old an a woodworker/joiner. I always had a fascination for eartmoving equipment and I found this place here looking for information of land clearing methods/scrub chaining and found Deas great topic.

I wish you a good and happy 2012,

regards,

Max