Remote-controlled mini dozer - GIF

**Altair** · Apr 23, 2022, 08:13 PM

Remote-controlled mini dozer.

Previously:

RC truck and dozer - video
500lb capacity RC wheel loader - video
RC front end loader lifting an adult - GIF
Bulldozer blade contour gauge - photo
Euclid TC12 dual-engine dozer - video

**BuffaloJohn** · Apr 24, 2022, 01:28 PM

looks like a loader, not a dozer

**Frank S** · Apr 24, 2022, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by BuffaloJohn

looks like a loader, not a dozer

I often call my track machines dozers instead of loaders. People have a tendency to understand dozers are generally tracked while to some a loader is something used just to pick up and deposit in a truck.
The big difference is dozers can't remove materials they can only push rip or drag.
What ever we want to call it, it is a nice little machine and great for cleaning out square culverts

**BuffaloJohn** · Apr 24, 2022, 07:12 PM

Well, tracked or wheeled, if it is a bucket, it is a loader and if it is a blade, it is a dozer...

One does have to wonder, did the culvert or the loader come first? - a real life chicken and egg...

**Frank S** · Apr 24, 2022, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by BuffaloJohn

Well, tracked or wheeled, if it is a bucket, it is a loader and if it is a blade, it is a dozer...

One does have to wonder, did the culvert or the loader come first? - a real life chicken and egg...

Yep but you can doze with a loader you can't load with a dozer. I guess you could load with a dozer if the truck was parked next to the pay pile and the dozer pushed the pay of the top of the pile onto the truck but probably would burry the truck in the process.
As far as did the culvert or the loader come first goes. I would imagine the invention of the mole loader was the result of years of hand digging out culverts until someone who had probably worked in an underground mine thought of reducing the size of a loader used down there

**nova_robotics** · Apr 25, 2022, 05:58 PM

Looks like it would be good for UXO (un-exploded ordnance).

**hemmjo** · Apr 25, 2022, 06:05 PM

All the guys I have worked with call it a wheel loader or just plain loader if it has wheels and an bucket.

If it has tracks it is a dozer, even if it has a bucket and can load. But many times the bucket on a tracked machine will be a 4 in 1. SO it can doze, load, pick-up big rocks, pull tree stumps, etc.

If it has wheels and skids, to steer, it is a skid loader. Even though it could have a simple bucket, a 4 in 1 bucket, grapple for clearing brush, a sweeper, a rock hound, a trencher, or auger for big hole.

Just the way it is around here, your mileage may differ.

**baja** · Apr 26, 2022, 08:37 AM

And it has a trailer ball! Multi purpose.

**Floradawg** · Apr 26, 2022, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

All the guys I have worked with call it a wheel loader or just plain loader if it has wheels and an bucket.

If it has tracks it is a dozer, even if it has a bucket and can load. But many times the bucket on a tracked machine will be a 4 in 1. SO it can doze, load, pick-up big rocks, pull tree stumps, etc.

If it has wheels and skids, to steer, it is a skid loader. Even though it could have a simple bucket, a 4 in 1 bucket, grapple for clearing brush, a sweeper, a rock hound, a trencher, or auger for big hole.

Just the way it is around here, your mileage may differ.

Gotta get that terminology right.

**Elizabeth Greene** · Apr 27, 2022, 06:13 PM

We should send a smaller one of these or a mini excavator to mars. Being able to dig a trench and photograph it with a rover would teach us a lot about the planet.