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Gunnells, Brad R brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu
Sat May 18 09:07:00 PDT 2019


I'd love to play on that for a while. I could do some major damage in short order!!


Brad

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Here is a couple of  pictures of my new toy.  It doesn't really do it justice.
Cecil


On 5/16/2019 11:54 PM, Phil Auten wrote:

Dozers are really amazing! I had worked on the tank on my place several years ago using a 5' box blade on the back of my Farmall M. I was able to make a little headway getting rid of a ridge that created a shallow end and smoothed it out enough that I was satisfied. Took me two weeks working on it after work till dark.

Enter my neighbor that leased my pasture. The drought had the tank down to a puddle about 20'X8' and maybe a foot deep. He hired a man with a dozer who went to work making the tank deeper and scooping out the shallow end so it matched the deep end. This more than doubled the capacity and also got rid of all the willows that surrounded the tank and sucked up water like a sponge. Took him about 3 hours. I was flabbergasted! George wouldn't tell me how much it cost, but I am guessing it was $2,500. Amazingly, 3 days after the work was finished we got a huge rain and it filled the tank. Talk about luck!

Phil in TX

On 5/16/2019 10:23 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
Took delivery of a Cat D6D yesterday.  My early Father's Day present.  It has a cab, but w/ an air conditioner that is gonna need a lot of work...   My old dozer was a D6 8U series about 1952 model...  This is like the difference between a 4020 and a TO-30!!   Our old red clay is a pain to try to move with anything, but this machine can move a bunch of it.  I have been busy with building crossings over the creeks.  the cows use them more than I do.  It is so wet here that cattle go down to their knees when within 6 feet of the water.   Worked about 5 hours today with the D6D and the 944 loader and built a crossing about 4 ft above the creek and 100 ft long with a 24in pipe.  I dug fill out of a 100 yr old railroad embankment with the dozer and hauled it with the 944...     I love Cat equipment, its the gift that keeps on giving!!!!
Cecil






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