Cub Cadet bulldozer - video

**oi789** · Feb 16, 2022, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by Jon

S2E6. By Wood and Metal Shop Time. 34:06 video:

Any thoughts on what attachments you might build for the dozer? Dozer blade, loader, ripper, trencher, mower deck,????

**wizard69** · Feb 19, 2022, 01:23 PM

That is a really nice project.

I might suggest one thing though, build yourself some fenders as those tracks are awfully close to your thighs. By the way the fenders are not for mud, that would reduce the fun, but rather protection in case you throw the track and it comes off towards the inside instead of falling off to the outside. If they where to ever do that your leg and thigh would get torn up real fast.

AS for the practicality you might be surprise how useful a mini dozier can be. I'm not sure if there are plans for implements but a box blade that can be lifted a bit can be very useful as can be a complete bucket. On a small estate simply being able to pull timber with a chain can be very useful too. Hopefully we will seem more posts as the machine is finalized.

**Frank S** · Feb 19, 2022, 01:55 PM

In Frank's last video he mentioned the next step was to raise the seat, build fenders, foot well guards, and grousers for the tracks
I probably only actually watch about 2 minutes of each of his videos, but I usually catch the more important aspects of the build.
I do hope the foot well guards are the highest on his priority lists, as I saw the tracks try to snag his britches a couple of times. Raising the seat will help and fenders would be a must once he adds attachments to it and tries to put it to work.
I have to wonder why he opted to raggedly mount the track groups to the frame instead of fabricating a wishbone sub frame like a real dozer would have. It seems to me that this would have been a must for a well-functioning dozer, but to do that he would have had to place both track drives at the same end which ultimately he had room to do by simply removing one axle side from each. Since he had to add huge spacers to the hubs to make it the way he did to get the width anyway.
There are many aspects of his build that I am sure by now he wishes he had gone in another direction but that is the nature of building an idea out of something never designed to be what you are making,
I find myself making many changes to some of the builds I am currently prototyping, when if I had just stepped back and told my customer let's do more planning before building so we have to make fewer changes along the way.
We can't always see how tall a tree is while staring at the roots