About 2.5 hours drive from the pickup point, is a sawmill with scales, they have always been good about letting me use their scale to weigh trucks.
Its mostly gravel logging roads, with about 50 minutes of narrow secondary paved road to it, no major road until about 4 minutes before the mill. The road up to the landing is steep as hell, narrow, and nasty. I used to haul logs up there when I was a young lad. I plan to take my favorite W900, tandem jeep, and tri axle low bed, run it extra far forward to get the weight on the jeep and drivers. I have hauled many a D8 in my time, just usually logging companies use a smaller dozer on their logging shows. This spring I hauled a lot of D5 dozers with extra wide shoes for lower ground pressure. Took them out to logging shows. Too steep for wheel skidders, they often use dozers. Those little D5 dozers are so easy to move, its actually a lot of fun.
Looking for D8T weight and width blade angled
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I haven't seen an 8 with power angle, but angle dozers on 8s are really rare in these parts. Would enjoy seeing photos.
If it is the typical c-frame with trunnion arms that are pulled out and re-inserted in other holes to angle the blade I would guess that the dozer would be lighter than a full U or SU.
Edit to add: Cat Performance Handbook shows an angle dozer for a D8T @ 16'7". I suspect that the dozer on your machine is narrower because of logging application.Last edited: Jul 7, 2019
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I think they weigh just shy of 80 with the blade removed. I know a d6 or d7 come in at about 12’3” with a standard blade angled back.
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I believe that the narrow blade is because they use it to build skid trails.
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Yeah just load it up and swing it by the nearby Flying J with Cat scales! They don’t realize where you are is pretty far from civilization and mega-fleet truck stops. That being said, I never use Ritchie specs because they’re usually just wrong. If you can get a specalog for that model off the Cat website, it is much better. But even that might not help with the specialized arch and blade. Good luck! Wish I could go help you; that’s beautiful country in that part of the world.
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Also I like to be legal, scales or no scales.Nothereoften, Cat sdp, snowman_w900 and 4 others Thank this. -
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Technically 11'9.75" because in metric that is 3.6 meters, but they have always just let me permit up to 12 feet wide, and let me forego pilot cars. But hit 12' 1" and then they will make me run escorts. I hauled an 11'10.5" load today, permit yes, I told them the width, I was also over length and had to permit for that, and heavy on my steers and drives, so permitted them to. My life is generally full of permits to haul anything, and yes 3noses technically you are right 12 feet is too wide for just a permit, but they always just say okay when I call, and let me permit it.
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