Couple of dozer pics

[Bri963]

That is a great community project and service saving them loads of money
I did a similar thing for a local primary school a few years ago. Used my nephew as labourer and banksman. He went to the school and they all knew him. Then the PTA finished off the pond project
It nice to know our machines can help out with this type of project

Appreciate that mate. A year ago I organised and managed an outdoor activity area for the same school. The day I took the digger in for that job was the complete opposite weather-wise. Working with enthusiastic but clue-less volunteers is all part of life’s rich tapestry, and it was one of the most enjoyable things I’d done in recent years.

 

[Bri963]

ground here is like concrete ATM Bri and cracked to hell ... 's gonna take a lorrarain, to soften it up

I went down a foot and there was absolutely no moisture, Gra. Never seen the ground round here like it, not even in ‘76. Next project will be a 3-leg scarifier for the Kubota.

 

[V8Druid]

I went down a foot and there was absolutely no moisture, Gra. Never seen the ground round here like it, not even in ‘76. Next project will be a 3-leg scarifier for the Kubota.

aye '76 was a hell of a summer Bri - was building a party wall between my parents and the neighbours to replace a knackered fence line - would start at six and knock off about one when the sun came round full onto it ... too hot to work by then.. was a double skin-er with those riven face blocks that were popular then and you couldn't keep the 'mix' moist enough, even wetting down to lay with ...

 

[Bri963]

aye '76 was a hell of a summer Bri - was building a party wall between my parents and the neighbours to replace a knackered fence line - would start at six and knock off about one when the sun came round full onto it ... too hot to work by then.. was a double skin-er with those riven face blocks that were popular then and you couldn't keep the 'mix' moist enough, even wetting down to lay with ...

The Fen clay cracked like I’ve only seen a couple of times in my lifetime. A bloke I worked with showed a pitchfork handle down one crack and it went down nearly full length.

 

[V8Druid]

The Fen clay cracked like I’ve only seen a couple of times in my lifetime. A bloke I worked with showed a pitchfork handle down one crack and it went down nearly full length.

nice an' dry for getting about on though

 

[Lancs Lad]

The Fen clay cracked like I’ve only seen a couple of times in my lifetime. A bloke I worked with showed a pitchfork handle down one crack and it went down nearly full length.

Starting to see some decent cracks even up here. Can't ever remember our grass looking as dead! What a cracking summer we've had

 

[Bri963]

Open day at the Peterborough Cat/Perkins site. The D8 was definitely a Normandy veteran, the owners weren’t too sure about the D7. They both started and ran sweet as a nut. And before anyone asks, I didn’t drive either of them from new.

 

[Bri963]

Yesterday afternoon and this morning‘s work. 100’ of 750mm trench for a new water line, bypassing a leaky mixture of elkathene and Screwed black steel. There’s a lot to be said for a lighter machine. I nearly pulled the trigger on a U10 last year, but the extra track length would have screwed me for access on this job. It was a lot tighter than the pictures show.

I can’t think of one job I’ve done where 2cm narrower would have helped, but the extra weight of some of these machines on servos would certainly have worked against me.

I bought a 6” bucket from Evans and Reid just for this job. Don’t know what make it is but it’s as heavy as my White 12”, and surprising it did self-clean fairly well. Proof of the pudding will be digging in clay, this was heavy black soil all the way down. Anything bigger and there’d have been no space to put the soil.

 

[Bri963]

Postscript to the sandpit I dig for the primary school. I left it that the school would organise for 5 tonnes to be tipped into the pit and parents come and level it. Due to a miscommunication Dewsons dropped 5 tonnes in bags, on the wrong side of the field about 300 metres from the pit. Hence me decanting sand into a Thwaites dumper for my son to drive over the field. Ten minutes in the heavens opened. No parents were harmed during the making of this sandpit. Interesting thing the head told me a couple of months later, playground injuries dropped by 90% after they started using the pit as the children were more interested in digging than horseplay.

 

[Monkeybusiness]

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Yesterday afternoon and this morning‘s work. 100’ of 750mm trench for a new water line, bypassing a leaky mixture of elkathene and Screwed black steel. There’s a lot to be said for a lighter machine. I nearly pulled the trigger on a U10 last year, but the extra track length would have screwed me for access on this job. It was a lot tighter than the pictures show.

I can’t think of one job I’ve done where 2cm narrower would have helped, but the extra weight of some of these machines on servos would certainly have worked against me.

I bought a 6” bucket from Evans and Reid just for this job. Don’t know what make it is but it’s as heavy as my White 12”, and surprising it did self-clean fairly well. Proof of the pudding will be digging in clay, this was heavy black soil all the way down. Anything bigger and there’d have been no space to put the soil.

That’s going to take a bit of making good/tidying up!

 

[V8Druid]

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Postscript to the sandpit I dig for the primary school. I left it that the school would organise for 5 tonnes to be tipped into the pit and parents come and level it. Due to a miscommunication Dewsons dropped 5 tonnes in bags, on the wrong side of the field about 300 metres from the pit. Hence me decanting sand into a Thwaites dumper for my son to drive over the field. Ten minutes in the heavens opened. No parents were harmed during the making of this sandpit. Interesting thing the head told me a couple of months later, playground injuries dropped by 90% after they started using the pit as the children were more interested in digging than horseplay.

great pic Bri

 

[Bri963]

That’s going to take a bit of making good/tidying up!

Already done. I just forgot to take the After pictures, I was raw cold and wanted to get in the car. It was one of those jobs where there wasn’t much space to shove the soil. We’ve probably all had them at some point.

 

[Bri963]

great pic Bri

Thanks Gra.i was soaked through so the smile took a bit of forcing. I started in the 70’s on tractors and plant with no cabs, thought I was in heaven when I first got to operate a machine with a cab, then years later bought a machine with no cab. I suppose it’s character building.

 

[Bri963]

A DJB D35 on display outside the Cat Peterlee facility where all of the ADT’s are manufactured. A company I worked for had two D25’s, slightly newer than this, and the best wagons out there for bad ground conditions, imo. They would pull up slopes steep enough for part of the load to fall out of the back. I wish I had a picture of them being loaded by the Cat 225 which was the company’s prime mover until they bought a second hand 235. Didn’t realise at the time that I was working through the end of a great era, it was literally fall off one job onto the next, there was so much road building going on in this area through the 1990’s.

 

[Bri963]

740, 725 and D20

 

[JD450A]

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740, 725 and D20

That DJB looks sweet

 

[Bri963]

It runs sweet. Think it’s about a 1982/3. DJB badged as a Cat. There were three stages of branding, wholly DJB, then owned by DJB but badged and sold as Cat, then 100% Cat ownership. If I was going to be in one all day, the 725 isn’t a bad mount. There’s not a lot of clear water between the newest models and Volvo.

If I was ever planning to buy, which I’m not, imho the A25 and A30 B’s were the best trucks at their size, in terms of reliability, comfort (excellent at the time and not bad even today) and ease of being able to put the skip back on its wheels when some numpt had rolled it.

The DJB’s were tanks, but hard work over a twelve hour day.

 

[Bri963]

Tidying and waterproofing a soil heap.

 

[Quattromike]

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