kenny thomas
Well-known member
The sideways kinda makes you pucker but when it stops sliding is the bad spot if its real steep. It will stop sliding and turn over. Done that a couple of times and seen it done a couple more. Uprooting a big pine tree and getting the root under the blade as the tree falls has the same ending.Margonme":g7jz3l9n said:Have you ever had a Dozer sliding sideways down a slope? I was clearing trees, nothing big. Biggest was 6 inch diameter so was doing it while it was wet in the spring. I was pushing perpendicular to the slope. Piling the brush in a ravine that ran up and down the slope. The ground was muddy in one spot. I looked down at the ground and the tracks were moving forward but the dozer was going down slope sideways at a faster speed than it was going forward. The cleats were acting like runners.
Have been stuck in dozers several times so deep I had to crawl down to get in the seat. Worst was in a guys yard where he had an illegal septic tank. When the turds started coming to the top I knew I was in trouble. Took a 3 rear axle wrecker to pull it out and the front of it was chained to a tree.