compactor road roller with bulldozer type front dozer blade

[barracane]

compactor road roller with bulldozer type front dozer blade:

CASE 602B PADFOOT ROLLER SMOOTH DRUM PLATE WELDED ON 2,012 HOURS CASE 4-390 4CYL DIESEL ENGINE-80HP 66" ROLLER 84" 2-WAY BLADE HYDROSTAT ARTICULATING 14,550 LB OPERATING WEIGHT 13.6/12-28 TIRES VIBRATORY

what do you think of this dozer setup? can trace a road or first it takes the mechanical shovel to do the big and tiring work, I have seen similar machinery in landfills to bury the waste, with iron wheels to compact the waste and a bucket to cover the waste layer, never a similar machine conformation, what do you think? strange that the Chinese have not built such a toy that they are so creative and ingenious, on the beach we will soon see the Chinese children with the bucket and the built-in mini excavator instead of the classic shovel, greetings to all.

 

[V8Druid]

compactors

 

[barracane]

CP44B caterpillar

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Cat CS-563D AW Vibratory Single Drum Compactor ??​

 

[Bri963]

I’ve done a bit on a Cat CP44. You operate the blade with a foot pedal, which does your head in when you’re used to bulldozers. The blade is absolutely useless as you can’t push through a decent sized load tipped in front of you.

 

[Gecko]

The tyres are on the wrong way around to get decent traction when using the blade.

 

[barracane]

I had imagined it was a useless tool, to push the filling material it takes strength, power and considerable driving force. an entrepreneur who has carried out a large filling and survey work, has spread the backfill with a large mechanical shovel and then to it after having created the plane of the yard, he has hooked a single-cylinder towing roller at the rear which he towed by compacting the soil , those rollers with the dozer blade maybe they are special conformation preparations for the army geniers I have never seen any in my part, thanks for your clarifying intervention.

 

[Bri963]

The tyres are on the wrong way around to get decent traction when using the blade.

You could fit racing slicks and it wouldn’t make any difference. Most of the traction comes from the drum.

 

[Bri963]

Interesting point about the military using them. Can’t say I’ve seen one on a site in the UK, or in landfill, but I know the army has them on stock.

 

[Gecko]

You could fit racing slicks and it wouldn’t make any difference. Most of the traction comes from the drum.

Really? on a smooth drum.

(not in a position to argue)

 

[Bri963]

Really? on a smooth drum.

(not in a position to argue)

Have another look at the pictures. The only one with tractor tyres (CP44) has a sheepsfoot drum. The one I drove lost drive to the drum and with the drum drive removed the back wheels could barely move it on the level. Not much weight on the back wheels.

on edit, just spotted the Case right at the top. Don’t Know why they’d have those tyres on a smooth drum anyway, here they almost always have block tread tyres which don’t have a lot of grip either Direction.

on re-edit, it isn’t a smooth drum, it’s a sheepsfoot that’s had a rolled plate welded over the pads. be interesting to see how long that would last in use.

 

[Gecko]

The first two Case rollers have the tyres 'backwards'.
Without a doubt the sheepsfoot would win, but the 604B has had a smooth skin added to the drum.

 

[Bri963]

The first two Case rollers have the tyres 'backwards'.
Without a doubt the sheepsfoot would win, but the 604B has had a smooth skin added to the drum.

Nice bit of third world bodging to get a job done. In the USA by the looks.

You wouldn’t use a smooth drum where you’d use a sheepsfoot. Sheepsfoot on fill, smooth on finished grade. As a rule.

 

[barracane]

thanks for the clarification these machines are not much used in my part they are rented for large jobs, in our part the classic excavator and the tracked mechanical shovel are used a lot the rollers are separate machines for specific uses the adaptation with the front blade I only saw it in the military ones. who knows for what application. mystery? thanks for the clarification

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[Bri963]

These are common on waste tips in the UK. I’ve also used one on a road job, a Cat 824. It pushed clay fill out almost as well as a D6H working alongside me, and was a lot faster backing up. Not easy to level with.

 

[barracane]

in our area for some jobs used equipment maybe reconditioned overhauled but used, no large capital is invested for certain jobs such as landfills or the like, maybe a bucket configured and developed for this purpose is created, the machinery is used as long as it is efficient and convenient repair it, then replace it with a similar used one and use the old machinery no longer efficient at work as a used spare parts warehouse, the useless frame is cut with a torch and sent to be scrapped for the foundry, nothing is thrown away, everything is recycled. nothing is destroyed everything is transformed.