Beautiful. ....I know the work that goes into a project like this......And you're constantly thinking of 'future' upgrades.....ENDLESS !!! Guys like you are the reason we have great machines.
I’ll bet your wife loves the fact that you build these fun smaller machines. Keeps you from sitting around in your underwear watching tv all day. Lol, great series, I’ve enjoyed every bit of it, and you ended up with the coolest dozer in town!
Any machine that will take a blade full of material and not complain is a good machine. Great build. It fills a box on my bucket list of things I will never get to build. Had life turned out differently for me maybe I could have. You have a beautiful shop that is capable of most anything. It seems I always had a full machine shop at my disposal now I'm retired I miss it immensely. Ok, so what next? You have raised the bar considerably with this project so the next may be more of a challenge to come up with. LOL! I know you have some ideas already. Thank you for having us along. Rub Brutus and Butchie between the ears and give them a treat for keeping an eye on you. Cheers Terry
Thank you, you are very kind. Yes, there will be another build. Announcement to be later this summer, pending purchase of another appropriate donor tractor. It should be interesting, and it will be surprising to most channel followers.
love what you've done ( I'm a cub cadet guy and have 20 years on a small dozer ) Compared to graders, dozers can sometimes be challenging to get the finish grade you want.. will get easier with time... Only advice I ever really got was Keep it clean under your feet
Absolutely amazing feat of design and fabrication. I love that you made it a high track too! My favorite and the most useful machine that you have created is by far, the motor grader. I need that in my life!
Great job!!! I am amazed at your craftsmanship!!! I have followed both of your builds and let me tell you I have yet to be disappointed in either build. Honestly kind of sad knowing this build is complete!!!! I hope there will be a new build soon if possible anyway. I will be waiting and watching for a new post. Thank you sir for sharing all of your hardwork!!! Until next time keep on keeping on stay safe!!
I’ve enjoyed all these Dozer videos, Frank, thank you. Appreciate your methodical approach, taking the time to show us what you’re doing and why! (Also, got a kick out of the 80s retro track that plays during the CNC portion on this vid!) You’ve been a blessing to me, sir.
Yep it takes years of experience to get a good grading action on smaller dozers. Main thing I was told early in my driving was the speed, and also to work the hydraulics be able to counter the up and down with the hydraulics, so when the machine starts to rise on the front you counter with the hydraulics down and so on after a few hundred hours in drit it became natural and you can pick speed up a little, a good dozer drive in drit can finish almost like a grader. I have just over 6000 hrs on a Fiat 70hp dozer and 2000 hours on a Inter TD25b 295hp and now and again it still happened!!
Would a single loader control work better? like kabota uses, it has all the functions you need plus a float lock, just push the handle all the way up til it hits a detent and its in float. May have to add a proportioning valve to make it work, just an idea.
Frank please go with your fist idea for the tilt bracket. By putting the tilt bracket on blade pivot joint you are now subjecting that one bolt to all the stresses of the entire blade weight and any thing the blade pushes. Besides that the blade rotation with those extra forces will cause undue wear and breakage. That pivot pin was not designed for those forces. It was literally there so the blade and 3 point can be easily disassembled for repair or replacement.
It came out great! As an operator of 35 years I can tell you that what you are grading on your hard packed stone driveway is never gonna be easy with that machine lol Try some softer areas grading fill or topsoil. You’ll be able to get a better feel of what you created so wonderfully with less frustration.
Is it possible to make it where both lift cylinders are controlled by just one handle? So they both rise at the same time, like a dozer does. It would seem that your blade should go up on both sides at the same time. Not to mention you only need one hand for lift and not both. And after watching the demo of the float mounts, I think it's a success.
I'm working on how to do that. My current hydraulics set up doesn't allow that. My Grader does work that way by moving both valves simultaneously. This set up, for some reason I don't yet understand, only allows one main lift cylinder to operate at a time.
WOW, Frank at 36.55 when you loaded that blade up the dozer engine never even bogged down... as if there was nothing in front of the blade.. That's a beautiful and useful piece of equipment you just built !!!
Love the project. You have got me trying to figure out how to do the same with two Gravelys.😉 The only problem I can see with the stabilizer bar is that it is too short causing the blade to move sideways when lifted. You have enough mounting points on the front end there to easily make a watts linkage to replace the stabilizer bar. That would eliminate any lateral movement in the blade when it moves vertically.
I think you deserve to switch your controls to joysticks and pedals. Maybe a little pricey and time-consuming but, worth the control-ability. Also, some kind of bolt-on guards for those tracks so close! One last thing, get yourself a comfortable high-back seat. These cumulative upgrades will help you relax while you operate the machine more effectively. You can do it; everything is great so far. Small roof: optional.
I believe John Deere farm tractor front end loaders have a controller that have a float position if you push if forward of the down position just past a detent. Possibility if you ever need more float?
I have run dozens and dozens of machines from Cat to Case and never yet have seen one without "float" Even on track hoes with blades they have float detent. Also, shouldn't be a problem at all to get a 6 way control if you want to spend the money. Check Rock and Dirt in the parts pages and maybe you can find a used one.
There is an advantage to having a manual lift blade. Though You can lock it into several positions, You can also not lock it in, and FEEL the grade as your hand floats with the control lever. Speaking of plowing with a short frame small tractor. The hydraulic does not allow You to feel the work that the blade is doing. You can get good feedback from your blade, when You keep your hand on the lift lever which eliminates the undulations.
Very neat how you figured out getting the blade to float. The blade needs supports out at the ends, I think anyway. I'm sure you felt when cutting like the blade digs in then pops loose, slowing the tractor down then lunging forward. I can see the corners of the blade that when cutting are catching and actually flexing almost the entire side back then breaking free causing that lunge forward. I'd think this will eventually screw the blade up. Ofcourse you know it's not a blade built heavy duty enough for digging in to the ground to begin with. You've looked at pictures of dozers I'm sure and seen that they have the arms that run from the frame of the machine out to the sides and bottom of the blades. If you did that you wouldn't have the angle capabilities though. Still seems to need support though. To me the hydraulic cylinders configuration you have for the blade set up all sticking so far out in front of the tractor doesn't look like a dozer does to me. This is my opinion of course and I'm sure you designed this the best way you could to get it to work and it does work so I'm not trying to criticize you only trying to help with talking about the arms that support the sides of the blade. It would seem important to strengthen the sides and lower corners because of the thinness of the blade you're using and stresses exerted on the lower corners. The flexing and lunging isn't as apparent in this video as others watching the blade itself. If you haven't seen what I'm talking about already look back at other videos and specifically when you are starting a fresh cut being it's very obvious at that time. It's still really neat and awesome that you have the amazing mechanical skills to make this happen. I still want a set. Grader, dozer, articulating 6×6 dump truck. LOL! We need something to load the truck with so if possible an excavator and/or a track loader(looks like a dozer but has a bucket rather than a blade that lifts for loading a truck) would be awesome to include too! You got a long future on youtube if you do all those then build me a set as well when you get all the bugs worked out of the prototypes. LOL! Awesome to see the dozer working. I really wasn't sure if the motor would have the power to actually dig as deep as it does. Very cool! Good video. Stay well. -Wil 👍 I had to watch twice to understand how you got the float to work. Good solution.
Never seen a dozer with a 6 way blade? The movements you are seeing in the blade are just due to the slack in the attachment points. The blade itself is not flexing in any way.
That machine will turn the light blade into a piece of scrap metal. I would do any hard pushing with it until you can’t get some support in the outer ends of the blade
It works a whole lot better now, you still need to drive it with your feet and so you can operate the the blade with your hands. Controls need to be closer to you.
My original thought was a joystick float function valve (like a loader valve) but I decided against it because you can't control three cylinders independently with it. It's intended for two cylinders/functions.
Where do you park your car? Just curious. Do you have more garages on your property or use a car port or just your driveway? Quite amazing that you build yourself a bulldozer that works well enough to ruin your driveway. 😂 Thankfully you also build a grader to fix it. 🤣 I’m insisting you build a mars rover next. 🤨 Great work!
That is one outstanding project and I'm betting you had a good time doing it, but unless you had the steel or otherwise got it for nothing to say nothing of the hydraulics, I'm betting you could have gotten and old beat up Terimite or even a Case or maybe even a Bobcat, redid it, and then dixie it up with your own ideas for the same or even less money......And good as the Cadet is it will never run with an industrial machine,,,,,,But still,,,,,That is one top of the line project. Great job.
You were experiancing the same effect as every other dozer operator experianced when first starting out. Your modification gave the efect of a cable operated dozer with a floating blade while being a hydraulic operated dozer, without the cable drum behind the seat. There is a reason for getting away from the cable actuated blade , mainly not being able to force the blade down with more than the weight of the blade. In soil that may work , but in caliche rock, the hydraulic works better when backing up, with the ripper teeth breaking up the rock, for the next pass.
People running gps and grade control on dozers think they can run a dozer, lol. Driving a dozer takes more skill than most realize. They see flat ground and think it's easy. It doesn't take long to turn a road into a dirt bike track if you're not paying attention abs know how to fix what you're doing before it gets progressively worse, hahaha!
Beautiful. ....I know the work that goes into a project like this......And you're constantly thinking of 'future' upgrades.....ENDLESS !!! Guys like you are the reason we have great machines.
I’ll bet your wife loves the fact that you build these fun smaller machines. Keeps you from sitting around in your underwear watching tv all day. Lol, great series, I’ve enjoyed every bit of it, and you ended up with the coolest dozer in town!
After watching this build I now see old cub cadets in a whole different view point ! Nice job
once again nicely done Mr. Frank
frank that dozer is a true work of art. and it runs great to.
Any machine that will take a blade full of material and not complain is a good machine.
Great build. It fills a box on my bucket list of things I will never get to build. Had life turned out differently for me maybe I could have.
You have a beautiful shop that is capable of most anything. It seems I always had a full machine shop at my disposal now I'm retired I miss it immensely.
Ok, so what next? You have raised the bar considerably with this project so the next may be more of a challenge to come up with.
LOL!
I know you have some ideas already.
Thank you for having us along.
Rub Brutus and Butchie between the ears and give them a treat for keeping an eye on you.
Cheers
Terry
Thank you, you are very kind. Yes, there will be another build. Announcement to be later this summer, pending purchase of another appropriate donor tractor. It should be interesting, and it will be surprising to most channel followers.
Very nice build. Thanks for sharing this! I have really enjoyed watching both seasons and all episodes. 👍
Awesome, thank you!
your dozer can do every thing that the big ones do. that is so good
love what you've done
( I'm a cub cadet guy and have 20 years on a small dozer )
Compared to graders, dozers can sometimes be challenging to get the finish grade you want..
will get easier with time...
Only advice I ever really got was Keep it clean under your feet
You have those tracks just right! It clanks like a full size dozer when you are running around! Love it!
Great Job Frank. That's Been My Home Tractor For 40 yrs. Still Works Perfect. Retired Heavy Contractor.
Well done .... Now you need a bucket for it to pick up and load dirt .gravel etc Awesome Job
A Loader has very different arms than a dozer - he'll need to build another one!
well done Frank, well thought out and executed...
Fantastic job! Well thought out and done
The dozer is working much better than before and your skill level is growing . Great job! Love your videos.
Thanks 👍
So glad I found your channel.
Awesome build looking forward to what you do next
Seems like it can do a respectable amount of work for a "toy". Good job on the build!
Frank, Awesome work, well done sir! Thanks for sharing this entire project!
You have yourself one sweet little dozer sir, nice job. Thanks for the ride along.
Very nicely done …I enjoyed the whole build
Thank you for posting your videos! You have inspired me to try my hand at fabrication!
Absolutely amazing feat of design and fabrication. I love that you made it a high track too! My favorite and the most useful machine that you have created is by far, the motor grader. I need that in my life!
Great job!!! I am amazed at your craftsmanship!!! I have followed both of your builds and let me tell you I have yet to be disappointed in either build. Honestly kind of sad knowing this build is complete!!!! I hope there will be a new build soon if possible anyway. I will be waiting and watching for a new post. Thank you sir for sharing all of your hardwork!!! Until next time keep on keeping on stay safe!!
Wow, thank you! Yes, there will be another build. Stay tuned to the channel!
I’ve enjoyed all these Dozer videos, Frank, thank you. Appreciate your methodical approach, taking the time to show us what you’re doing and why! (Also, got a kick out of the 80s retro track that plays during the CNC portion on this vid!)
You’ve been a blessing to me, sir.
Thanks 👍
Job well done!
Pushing a full blade of dirt it has plenty of power with the added grousers. Im glad i was wrong. This is an awesome Machine!!!
Nice job Frank. You got this project handled.
Nice job on the build Mr Frank, off to the next build!
This is a thing of beauty
Nice work Frank.Dats Y U Da Man!
Very good video 👍 👍
Great job Frank!
Awesome build Frank..!
Yep it takes years of experience to get a good grading action on smaller dozers. Main thing I was told early in my driving was the speed, and also to work the hydraulics be able to counter the up and down with the hydraulics, so when the machine starts to rise on the front you counter with the hydraulics down and so on after a few hundred hours in drit it became natural and you can pick speed up a little, a good dozer drive in drit can finish almost like a grader.
I have just over 6000 hrs on a Fiat 70hp dozer and 2000 hours on a Inter TD25b 295hp and now and again it still happened!!
That super cool I love it.
Seems to push pretty well. Sounds like it need a little more horsepower. Awesome job!
Would a single loader control work better? like kabota uses, it has all the functions you need plus a float lock, just push the handle all the way up til it hits a detent and its in float. May have to add a proportioning valve to make it work, just an idea.
Frank please go with your fist idea for the tilt bracket. By putting the tilt bracket on blade pivot joint you are now subjecting that one bolt to all the stresses of the entire blade weight and any thing the blade pushes. Besides that the blade rotation with those extra forces will cause undue wear and breakage. That pivot pin was not designed for those forces. It was literally there so the blade and 3 point can be easily disassembled for repair or replacement.
Did you miss the part where I welded it all together? No force on that bolt now.
Agree
Amazing, thanks for sharing.
It came out great!
As an operator of 35 years I can tell you that what you are grading on your hard packed stone driveway is never gonna be easy with that machine lol
Try some softer areas grading fill or topsoil. You’ll be able to get a better feel of what you created so wonderfully with less frustration.
nice looking ride frank
Pretty cool . I watched most of the build but guess I missed this one .
Now you need a loader and a dump truck and you have the start of a miniature construction company.
Great job sir you should step back and take a look at what you've done and be very proud of yourself yourself I'll say it again great job
Is it possible to make it where both lift cylinders are controlled by just one handle? So they both rise at the same time, like a dozer does. It would seem that your blade should go up on both sides at the same time. Not to mention you only need one hand for lift and not both. And after watching the demo of the float mounts, I think it's a success.
I'm working on how to do that. My current hydraulics set up doesn't allow that. My Grader does work that way by moving both valves simultaneously. This set up, for some reason I don't yet understand, only allows one main lift cylinder to operate at a time.
WOW, Frank at 36.55 when you loaded that blade up the dozer engine never even bogged down... as if there was nothing in front of the blade.. That's a beautiful and useful piece of equipment you just built !!!
Back grades on big dozers is how they make it look good.
Your driving me crazy with that darn crescent wrench! Nice dozer though.
Nothing wrong with an adjustable wrench. LOL.
Nice job
Love the project. You have got me trying to figure out how to do the same with two Gravelys.😉 The only problem I can see with the stabilizer bar is that it is too short causing the blade to move sideways when lifted. You have enough mounting points on the front end there to easily make a watts linkage to replace the stabilizer bar. That would eliminate any lateral movement in the blade when it moves vertically.
You seem to have much better control with the new modifications In place.
I think you deserve to switch your controls to joysticks and pedals. Maybe a little pricey and time-consuming but, worth the control-ability. Also, some kind of bolt-on guards for those tracks so close! One last thing, get yourself a comfortable high-back seat. These cumulative upgrades will help you relax while you operate the machine more effectively. You can do it; everything is great so far. Small roof: optional.
I believe John Deere farm tractor front end loaders have a controller that have a float position if you push if forward of the down position just past a detent. Possibility if you ever need more float?
my John Deere garden tractor has float on one of the 3 hydraulic circuits
I have run dozens and dozens of machines from Cat to Case and never yet have seen one without "float" Even on track hoes with blades they have float detent. Also, shouldn't be a problem at all to get a 6 way control if you want to spend the money. Check Rock and Dirt in the parts pages and maybe you can find a used one.
Nice dozer.
I love it
Can’t wait till it snows can ya’?
I hear the land of OZ put in an order for 35 of those. Nice catch Frank.
There is an advantage to having a manual lift blade. Though You can lock it into several positions, You can also not lock it in, and FEEL the grade as your hand floats with the control lever. Speaking of plowing with a short frame small tractor. The hydraulic does not allow You to feel the work that the blade is doing. You can get good feedback from your blade, when You keep your hand on the lift lever which eliminates the undulations.
Very neat how you figured out getting the blade to float. The blade needs supports out at the ends, I think anyway. I'm sure you felt when cutting like the blade digs in then pops loose, slowing the tractor down then lunging forward. I can see the corners of the blade that when cutting are catching and actually flexing almost the entire side back then breaking free causing that lunge forward. I'd think this will eventually screw the blade up. Ofcourse you know it's not a blade built heavy duty enough for digging in to the ground to begin with. You've looked at pictures of dozers I'm sure and seen that they have the arms that run from the frame of the machine out to the sides and bottom of the blades. If you did that you wouldn't have the angle capabilities though. Still seems to need support though. To me the hydraulic cylinders configuration you have for the blade set up all sticking so far out in front of the tractor doesn't look like a dozer does to me. This is my opinion of course and I'm sure you designed this the best way you could to get it to work and it does work so I'm not trying to criticize you only trying to help with talking about the arms that support the sides of the blade. It would seem important to strengthen the sides and lower corners because of the thinness of the blade you're using and stresses exerted on the lower corners. The flexing and lunging isn't as apparent in this video as others watching the blade itself. If you haven't seen what I'm talking about already look back at other videos and specifically when you are starting a fresh cut being it's very obvious at that time. It's still really neat and awesome that you have the amazing mechanical skills to make this happen. I still want a set. Grader, dozer, articulating 6×6 dump truck. LOL! We need something to load the truck with so if possible an excavator and/or a track loader(looks like a dozer but has a bucket rather than a blade that lifts for loading a truck) would be awesome to include too! You got a long future on youtube if you do all those then build me a set as well when you get all the bugs worked out of the prototypes. LOL! Awesome to see the dozer working. I really wasn't sure if the motor would have the power to actually dig as deep as it does. Very cool! Good video.
Stay well. -Wil 👍
I had to watch twice to understand how you got the float to work. Good solution.
Never seen a dozer with a 6 way blade? The movements you are seeing in the blade are just due to the slack in the attachment points. The blade itself is not flexing in any way.
Another fine build. Good job. How about an articulated loader or possibly a forklift? And then a bigger garage.
You'll be happy when I announce the next project, later this summer. LOL.
Wish I had time and that kinda skill I have a 154 that needs love
That machine will turn the light blade into a piece of scrap metal. I would do any hard pushing with it until you can’t get some support in the outer ends of the blade
Is it possible but those drive control levers on your left side and use them in one hand?
Looks good, now it just needs an old school winch on the back.
Thinking about either a scarifier or a winch. If I did a winch, it would have to be hydraulic...a challenging build.
very impressive that is not a toy you can do lots of work with that needs a ripper now lol
good job. How much horsepower in the motor?
14hp
Nice to see. You forgot, you must fit a ripper.
It works a whole lot better now, you still need to drive it with your feet and so you can operate the the blade with your hands. Controls need to be closer to you.
Gotta be quick with those controls.
Nice build, why didn't you just get a hydraulic valve with a float position built in?
My original thought was a joystick float function valve (like a loader valve) but I decided against it because you can't control three cylinders independently with it. It's intended for two cylinders/functions.
Don't make sloted brakes. Change the hydraulic valve to one with a float circuit.
Blade needs floats on the bottom . They help keep it from digging in
Yes! skids or shoes. Great idea.
Time for a backup alarm now
Maybe for a next project a custom rat rod cub cadet.
now a roller so you can pack down the gravel....👌👌
Only other item I would put on the blade is some corner float shoes so not to wear the cutting blade corners.
Where do you park your car? Just curious. Do you have more garages on your property or use a car port or just your driveway?
Quite amazing that you build yourself a bulldozer that works well enough to ruin your driveway. 😂 Thankfully you also build a grader to fix it. 🤣
I’m insisting you build a mars rover next. 🤨
Great work!
That is one outstanding project and I'm betting you had a good time doing it, but unless you had the steel or otherwise got it for nothing to say nothing of the hydraulics, I'm betting you could have gotten and old beat up Terimite or even a Case or maybe even a Bobcat, redid it, and then dixie it up with your own ideas for the same or even less money......And good as the Cadet is it will never run with an industrial machine,,,,,,But still,,,,,That is one top of the line project. Great job.
Look out Chris Guin. Franks looking to the top of the pile.
Now you need some cutting edges put on the blade mold board so you don't wear it out
It has a cutting edge bolted on already.
Its gotta have a ripper
And next.... The Cub Cadet Excavator
Time to build an excavator or a loader backhoe
You were experiancing the same effect as every other dozer operator experianced when first starting out. Your modification gave the efect of a cable operated dozer with a floating blade while being a hydraulic operated dozer, without the cable drum behind the seat. There is a reason for getting away from the cable actuated blade , mainly not being able to force the blade down with more than the weight of the blade. In soil that may work , but in caliche rock, the hydraulic works better when backing up, with the ripper teeth breaking up the rock, for the next pass.
It does have positive press down, bottom out in the float slots
You can get an ATV with a plow with the same results
But much less fun.
could submit the ideas to the company and get paid
What NO RIPPER in the back? Its NOT a Dozer without a RIPPER
Lets Dig 68
would you take 10,000 cash for it
Jesus loves y'all personally
People running gps and grade control on dozers think they can run a dozer, lol. Driving a dozer takes more skill than most realize. They see flat ground and think it's easy. It doesn't take long to turn a road into a dirt bike track if you're not paying attention abs know how to fix what you're doing before it gets progressively worse, hahaha!
Got my interest with the dozer. Lost me soon as you put in wood working projects
It is Wood and Metal Shop Time...
I do away with that front lift cylinder you don't need it raise it up and down off the two side cylinders
Ditto
You love the fast forward too much thumbs down 👎
Do you want to sell it?
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