Plowing snow with a TD 6 dozer with wing

This was a job for a customer who has a cabin on a big hill. Normally they have to wait till late spring to get up the hill. I was able to make it to the top driving on the snow and then plow down hill. I set up a quick snow wing blade to get a the snow off the edge. Even going down hill I could only lower the wing partially as the dozer would spin out.

[@DennisStaie-fq4wt]

Good old days

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Thanks for the comment. It sure was. We would plow this driveway every year for the customer to get to there cabin. We looked forward to this job like we were getting to see an old friend. Hopefully by the fall I can get some new footage of the old TD6.

[@oldstudbuck3583]

The good old days when most politicians were loyal Americans first.

[@osagejon8972]

I love me some old iron still getting it done!

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Thanks for the comment. It's hard to tell how steep the driveway is in the video. But there's not a lot of things that would have marched up that hill the way the dozer did.

[@4sl648]

Nice old school video!

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Thanks for the comment. We never realized how far reaching our home videos would be back then. Now I wish I had filmed it all. I have worked that little dozer for hundreds of hours and it just keeps on going.

[@tomjack9632]

Nice, thanks for sharing the video.

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Thanks for your comment. It's been really fun to go back in time and see all this. I hardly ever used the computer. Now I'm hunting through computer files, flash drives, 8mm vhs tapes with the same hunger as a gold prospector. I got the fever lol.

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

I still have a few old nuggets from back in the day. But hopefully I can start getting some better quality videos with all this equipment.

[@wicked.mainah5994]

Old faithful

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Thanks for the comment. I have spent hundreds of hours doing all kinds of jobs over the years with that dozer. It really has be old faithful.

[@teamidris]

It might be an old cable dozer, but that isn’t stopping it from doing some hard work :)

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Everything came together on that day. The ground being frozen, the temperature of the snow. It's difficult to see how steep the driveway really is, plowing down hill really helped.

[@bebo5558]

I guess your just "winging it, right", oops I mean correct!

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

We practically duct taped the wing on but it ended up working perfectly.

[@MegaNailman]

skinny tracks
does ok , i could do that for hrs.

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Thanks for the comment. The snow was just warm enough or compactible for the dozer to ride up on it. If conditions had been different it might not have made it up the hill. It doesn't show how steep some of the sections are.

[@ericvonp]

This in the 1920’s?

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Thanks for the reply. This was filmed in 2002. The Dozer is a 1947 TD6 International

[@pusho_k]

Какой ад😂

[@bebo5558]

I think you need some work on your climate-controled cab, your air conditioning is going to get out!

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

I had the cold air catch flaps open that day.

[@bebo5558]

@@PJTVenturesInc. 😆👍

[@Clyde6frame]

Cable blade looks easy, but it’s not

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Thanks for the comment. To add to the confusion. The cable blade is actually run by a hydraulic cylinder on the roof. The hydraulic system is run by the rear pto, which is live to the transmission. So if your running out of power you best be on the controls getting the blade up otherwise. You have clutch, put the transmission in neutral then engage the clutch, then lift the blade, then disengage the clutch, l then back into gear, then start all over lol. The old fella who built the cab and blade assembly was very clever and by the looks of it had very limited resources. Even with all my irresponsible operating I never broke any of it.

[@Clyde6frame]

@@PJTVenturesInc. not so irresponsible🙃

[@PJTVenturesInc.]

Lol