You guys ever rented a Bull Dozer

[HuntForHorns]

Had a second dozer guy flake out on me. I am thinking about renting one and doing some dirt moving myself.

What is the learning curve for driving a dozer. I have driven a tractor and backhoe all my life but never a dozer.

Will I just be spinning my tracks?

[friscopaint]

Lost me at wheels....

[friscopaint]

That being said go for it

[slomo]

Not hard at all to figure out.

[kruppa24]

If you can operate a backhoe it wouldn’t take you long at all to get the hang of a dozer

[roygarcia54]

Dozer is pretty simple similar to skid steer operations. Case dozer operates as follows F-N-R on left joy stick control the speed with a foot pedal and blade is operated with right joystick


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[Smokeater]

Just take it slow on the corners!

[JBJTX81]

Had a second dozer guy flake out on me. I am thinking about renting one and doing some dirt moving myself.

What is the learning curve for driving a dozer. I have driven a tractor and backhoe all my life but never a dozer.

Will I just be spinning my tracks?

What are you trying to do? If you're trying to build a level pad site it's hard for a novice. If you're just wanting to push stuff around...go for it.

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[Horn chaser]

Learning to drive one is not hard at all. Learning how to do the work you want to do correctly on the fly would be the tricky part.

[Pstraw]

When you are able to back up where you just made a push without knocking your teeth out and getting whiplash, you will be on the way to becoming a dozer 'driver'.

[TX CHICKEN]

Just do it!! We rented one to do some work on our deer lease and that thing was fun! Lol


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[Wits_End]

Easy to drive, but it will take you twice as long, if not more, to get the job done. You will enjoy every minute of it and wish it took longer. Your project will expand and you will search out numerous other projects to get more seat time. You will start considering the purchase of one and spend hours upon hours searching heavy equipment trader. Then after buying your first you will search out the addition of other pieces. Your wife will start wondering why you're gone all the time, why you're suddenly missing meals and coming in past dark. Depending on your wife, she will get excited or straight up slap you when you tell her you bought a hoe. Depending on the response you may ask her if she wants to ride the hoe. This is the last page of the story for now.

You better have a good plan and/or big tractors available if you are working around water. Getting a 20 to 30 ton machine unstuck is not fun.

Price of rental is about double to triple what they show online due to required insurance and transportation. It is worth it if you use it nonstop for a week, but more cost effective to hire an experienced operator if you are just able to use on weekends.

[HOOKNBULLET2]

The dozer operator we used in the past would let me operate his. I’ve probably put 10 hours on his dozer over a weeks time. It’s easy to learn how to operate them. But extremely difficult to learn how to master them. Clearing brush no problem, grading a road not so much.

[lil jimmy]

Pm sent


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[Drycreek3189]

As a lifetime operator, I’m LMAO at some of these comments........