Do any of you have a rough idea on what a 13' U-blade from a D8 would weigh? Dozer arms included. Thanks.
The Cat book lists shipping weight of 11,800#, and that includes the arms as well as the cylinders.
Thanks for the advice. We made it home safely today after a 4 hour round trip plus 1.5 hrs to cut and load. The loader operator told me 5 ton after we had cut some parts off so it all came home on my trailer. I'm guessing it was a bit more but not by much. I'm struggling with pics but I'll post them ASAP because we all like them.
The arms were a bit over height and we needed some extra blocking so we made due. The dozer arms were going to get cut about there anyway so win-win.
Looks like a blade for a D-8H, or a real early K What are you going to use it for that the arms need shortened?
I'm going to put large flotation tires on the back of the arms and a hitch on the front making a heavy duty box blade for behind my 4wd tractor. I do a lot of agricultural ditching and this will work well for blending in terraces and such. Operating costs are less than my dozers and I can put almost anyone in the seat with little training where it takes much more time to train a good dozer operator. I bought it for just over scrap price and is is in pretty nice shape yet. I'll see if my plan works. I do need to source a corner bit as one is missing. The company sold an D8K last year so this could have been on that machine at one time.
That is interesting. Please share the progress when you put it together. I like people that think outside the box.
Thanks for the interest. I have an old JD 6601 pull-type combine that has bolt-on spindles. That will be the donor for hubs and tires. I want to make it 4-way (tilt) and am back and forth on leaving each arm independent or to lock them together and build a tilting axle on the back. I believe the latter will have better control so that is my intention right now. I'm hoping to get it done this summer. It would be a better winter shop project but I don't have a forklift big enough to lift it so I'll be doing this one outside. I'm not good at remembering to take pics but I'll try when the time comes. A local farmer has a factory built one that is 16' I believe and pulls it with a 500hp Quad Track. He loves it. This blade will be all my 280hp Steiger can handle but I'm going to build it heavy enough that I can hook anything to it without worries.
Very cool project and I'm gonna follow this one along.
I finally got a machine home yesterday to unload my recently acquired chunk of iron. This might take a while as I'll do it outside and between construction projects.
Here's a similar project: http://www.thecombineforum.com/forums/64-fabrication-diy-repair/247521-winter-shop-project.html Andrew
I love these kinds of projects. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
Here's some pics I saved of one someone was selling on kijiji. Andrew