D6 Dozer Towing

Anonymous-0

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Hi all,
I'm hoping some of the experts here can give me some thoughts/advice. Found an old D6B at a sale not overly far from our place. I've always thought it'd be really handy to have a dozer around for some of our farm work, forestry work, and the small gravel pit we have. The only issue is this: our land is spread out in several parcels all apart from each other, and to use the dozer all around we'd need to be able to tow it down the road. Only a few miles a few times a year.

We no longer have our dump truck on the road, and never had a float large enough for a dozer. There are a few rather steep and large hills between properties, but thankfully the road is all paved anywhere we'd need to go.

I was wondering if a 70 horse tractor (White 2-70) would sufficiently haul this dozer around, up and down some hills, assuming I eventually found a suitable trailer for the dozer. I'd really appreciate any thoughts anyone has on this.
 
20,000 lbs or so, you will need good braking ability or just hire it done, D6 is not a bad size for moving, but that would be some heavy weight unless that is a real big tractor, at first glance I'd be real wary of that combination if it involves exposure to other unsuspecting motorists.
 
hire a tandem rollback. They will handle 20,000 lbs. on paved roads easily. About $100 to $150 per move. A lot cheaper than an accident.
 
I agree cheaper to hire someone to move it. Pay them well, they will do it for you. It's just a few miles, but they have to pay the insurance etc. It will be money well spent in the long run
 
That 2-70 will pull the crawler okay, but it doesn't have near the brakes you need. Hire it or buy a proper rig.
 
Had a neighbor that used to haul a D8 with cable dozer on a tandem trailer pulled by an old WWII era Power Wagon. No hills to climb, but sure wouldn't want to stand in his way if he had to make a quick stop.
 
Thanks all,

Looking over the dozer I think you guys are right, a little bit of a tall order for that tractor on our steep hills. Not sure I'll be bidding too high on it anyway. a smaller case/JD 450 might be more suited to our purposes.

Thanks again,
Daniel
 
If your trailer that you are going to use has brakes why not put a brake controler on tractor that can be run by hand and that way you could control it going down hills. Also down shift tractor before heading down hills.
 
(quoted from post at 01:02:40 05/19/14) If your trailer that you are going to use has brakes why not put a brake controler on tractor that can be run by hand and that way you could control it going down hills. Also down shift tractor before heading down hills.


I may be wrong, but I don't believe there's a set of electric brakes in the whole world that will stop a D6 on a good hill. And while downshifting is fine, when the trailer picks the butt end of your tractor up enough to push it sideways down the road.......... :shock:
 
Our D6B has a steel canopy with sweeps a angle blade and a towing winch. seems to me It weighs around 26,000 to 28,000lbs each time I cross the scales. Now add about 9,500lbs for the White 2-70 and say 7,000 for a 20,000 lbs tag trailer and now your around 42,000lbs + or - 5%. IMO, with good trailer brakes rigged up, a careful man could do this if the grades are limited to 8% or less. <p>Without good trailer brakes or in the event you were to loose your trailer brakes it is my belief it could quickly become a suicide mission!!!! Indeed one would be putting much faith in an electric brake system that's quite apt to fail you!! <p>If I were to do this, I would mount an air compressor and a couple air valves on the White and go with an air brake system complete with parking brakes(Maxi brakes) on the trailer, and tow with complete confidence. Regards, Chum.
 
Forget it with anything less than a 150 horse powershift FWA. Back east there was some Amish that hauled around a D6 behind a 70 hp JD, and when he climbed hills with it, he clawed his way up, whether it was gravel or pavement. Tore up some blacktop roads that were already not in the greatest of shape.
When they finally caught him, he found out it was cheaper to hire the machine hauled than to run road fuel, license it as a combination, get oversize permits and CDL, and add an air system for the trailer brakes.
They did put a plate on the tractor and continued to use it to move the tile unroller and tile plow between jobs.
 

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