Yeah it's very hard to cut anything compacted over a .005 otherwise you just spin out and ruin the grade behind you. When I get along pass and finish, I turn off the automatics and raise the blade, then I drive on top of the pile I was pushing and make my turn on it, then back off in reverse on the rough grade. A new cutting edge is definitely a plus for the fine trimming and a laser that's adjustable. What do I mean adjustable? Well if you use the gun site on the axis of the top of the laser you'll see the X/Y axisses. Whenever I had a flat grade I would use the gun sight to line it up properly nice and straight from like a stake to another stake on the opposite side of the site. Line it all up properly, and then I would park my machine so that the laser receiver on the dozer blade was exactly 20 ft away from the laser. If I had to put front to back slope I would use it to adjust the laser with the controller provided with it. So if I have a pad that's 100 ft long and requires flat side to side with a half a percent slope front to back, this is what I would do. Drive up so you're on the axis and your receiver is exactly so many feet away from the laser, for example: 20' from laser to receiver, benchmark the blade and make sure it's level, once benchmarked make the calculation. A half a percent in 20 ft is; 20×0.005=0.1 Now with my blade benchmarked and level I turn off the automatics and adjust the receivers up 0.1 of a foot. With this adjustment complete I now take the remote provided with the laser and tap the manual button and adjust the laser until it strikes the dead band of my receiver and it strikes my 0.1 adjustment perfectly. Now wherever you go on the grade you receivers will be properly adjusted as well as your laser system. And if you run out of dirt and need to make more cut you simply adjust the receivers up for more cut and down for fill. It's a lot easier using a dual mast system than a single mast.
No. I was using trimble grade system run blade. I have since learned how to tune the valves to do a much better job. Also learned where to set the blade pitch to help the dozer out a little also.
Yeah it's very hard to cut anything compacted over a .005 otherwise you just spin out and ruin the grade behind you.
When I get along pass and finish, I turn off the automatics and raise the blade, then I drive on top of the pile I was pushing and make my turn on it, then back off in reverse on the rough grade.
A new cutting edge is definitely a plus for the fine trimming and a laser that's adjustable. What do I mean adjustable?
Well if you use the gun site on the axis of the top of the laser you'll see the X/Y axisses. Whenever I had a flat grade I would use the gun sight to line it up properly nice and straight from like a stake to another stake on the opposite side of the site. Line it all up properly, and then I would park my machine so that the laser receiver on the dozer blade was exactly 20 ft away from the laser. If I had to put front to back slope I would use it to adjust the laser with the controller provided with it.
So if I have a pad that's 100 ft long and requires flat side to side with a half a percent slope front to back, this is what I would do.
Drive up so you're on the axis and your receiver is exactly so many feet away from the laser, for example:
20' from laser to receiver, benchmark the blade and make sure it's level, once benchmarked make the calculation. A half a percent in 20 ft is; 20×0.005=0.1
Now with my blade benchmarked and level I turn off the automatics and adjust the receivers up 0.1 of a foot. With this adjustment complete I now take the remote provided with the laser and tap the manual button and adjust the laser until it strikes the dead band of my receiver and it strikes my 0.1 adjustment perfectly. Now wherever you go on the grade you receivers will be properly adjusted as well as your laser system. And if you run out of dirt and need to make more cut you simply adjust the receivers up for more cut and down for fill.
It's a lot easier using a dual mast system than a single mast.
what is a tenth in mm s ????
I believe it would be 33 mm.
30.5 mm
@@keithprater750 thanks
Are you manually operating the blade?
No. I was using trimble grade system run blade. I have since learned how to tune the valves to do a much better job. Also learned where to set the blade pitch to help the dozer out a little also.
Wow