Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........

Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 06, 2006 at 03:51:14 from (216.208.58.126):

In Reply to: Re: Making a dozer blade for my 100........ posted by scotty on December 05, 2006 at 05:08:10:

scotty: Very nice job, bear in mind the SA does have the ability to bend those push beams in heavy going with chains, Your landscape appears to be reasonably flat, and probably you can plow without chains, given CT winters. Where I get into problems is 130 will push far enough snow falls in behind blade, then I can't back away without chains. My driveway is about 15" higher than fields on both sides. When I go down over that to push snow back, then I encounter real problems backing away. Of course with the volumes on snow I'm pushing I need chains, and when the chains are on, human nature tends to use them to the maximum ability.

The frist two winters I plowed snow with 130, I had Canadian ring chains. gene may not think these little tractors are a bulldozer, however with ring chains on hard ground, one would be hard pressed to see the difference. I once tackled 4' of hard frozen snow pushed up in earlier storms. With ring chains 130 would take 1/2 width of blade with little effort. I did get rid of the ring chains for 3 reasons; hard on my new concrete floor, they give a rough ride on 24" tires and I was afraid of breaking a final drive. I did break one with ring chains hauling fire wood on a set of bob sleds designed for 300, way back in the mid 60s.

Marg. has a photo of me in 1965, with 130 and these same sleds, coming from the bush. We had a rack for piling 4' wood crossways, rack is 16' long with 42" stakes on either end. The load is piled 6' deep in middle tapering off to 3.5' at each end. A scaler put it at 2.2 cords. Softwood spruce and fir run 4,400# per cord or roughly 9,680# plus sleds. 300 was in for repairs that winter and I hauled 158 cords from the bush in 113 loads, with 130 and ring chains. Average 1.4 cords per load. We didn't do so well until we got snow beat down on trails and frozen. Actually I broke the final drive breaking out trails in deep snow with less than 1/2 cord on sleds. My most serious problem was holding back load on one slight hill I had to come down loaded.

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