SOUTHEAST INNever owned a dozer before.have around 900 total acres of field edges..150 being woods... crp...filter strips..waterways etc.All my big fence rows are gone need to maintain saplings 6-12 inches and general clean up.I want 6way blade and hydrostatic for sure..looking at case 650 or 850 k 's.any ideas or suggestions on brands or models ?? TIA
South TexasReally don't think there is a bad small dozer. Deere, Cat, Case, Komatsu. They're all going to be hydro and nice to run. I can say a D5G will burn 50 gals in the same work as a 650J will burn 35 gals.
West Chazy, New YorkI don't think you will want anything smaller than the 850 for what you want to do.
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The DeltaNothing smaller than an 850
rochester INI don't know what u want to do but if your not grading and just doing maitinance you may be better off with nice 4wd backhoe. Unless u already have that. Just a thought small trees can be taken out and pushed in a pile with one machine and you don't have to truck it , we have both and the Dozer only gets used either when it's a decent job or it's wet. Backhoe is warm and dry!!!!
Callao, MissouriConsider a track loader with a 4 in 1 bucket.
Central OhioI wouldn't want one smaller than 90 horse or so. Tiny dozers will make you want to bang your head against a wall unless you've got a lot of patience.
Southwest IllinoisHad a Deere 555G Highlift. We used it but not that much. I think over 6 years we maybe put 400 hours on it and over 100 of that was a year we did some land clearing. We bought a large compact track loader. We put 100 hours on it the first 6 months we owned it. Realized the 555 could go down the road. The steel tracked highlift would still be my preference for burning brush piles, but our Bobcat 320 will do just about everything our 555 did. Plus we have a brush cutter that will make mulch of 6" or smaller trees, we use the pallet forks quite a bit as well as well as a grapple. Just a much more versatile machine. We tried a 4 in 1 bucket for a week and while a bit more useful we went with a toothed bucket and a grapple bucket.
East central Indiana650j series deere. 850 case is a bit small I think.Lookingglass - 9/9/ 18:03
Had a Deere 555G Highlift. We used it but not that much. I think over 6 years we maybe put 400 hours on it and over 100 of that was a year we did some land clearing. We bought a large compact track loader. We put 100 hours on it the first 6 months we owned it. Realized the 555 could go down the road. The steel tracked highlift would still be my preference for burning brush piles, but our Bobcat 320 will do just about everything our 555 did. Plus we have a brush cutter that will make mulch of 6" or smaller trees, we use the pallet forks quite a bit as well as well as a grapple. Just a much more versatile machine. We tried a 4 in 1 bucket for a week and while a bit more useful we went with a toothed bucket and a grapple bucket.
Can you tell me what you have for a brush cutter? Have you used it on cedar trees? How quickly would it take care of a 4 or 5 inch diameter tree?
Southwest IllinoisWe bought a Virnig. We don't cut a ton of big brush but it will take down 4" trees pretty quick, 30 seconds will create a lot of little pieces.
Central Missourihave a jd700h that dose pretty good job
The rapidly vanishing farmland of Boone Co. Ind.Whatever brand, the biggest one you can afford.Ive spent 1/3 of my life on the seat of a dozer old and new ( mainly new ) but my favorite all around dozer is a cat 7e. Kind of big but they are one tough hard pushing mother. Itll push over 30" oaks while rolling dirt overy the blade. At the end of the day you know you did something
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Liberty, MOMy old D6D does a good job for me, cleaning terraces, building terraces , waterways, cleaning fence rows, just all a round farm work. Would hate not having it around.
Wallis, TXMoe Syslak - 9/9/ 20:04 Whatever brand, the biggest one you can afford.
And the biggest you can move.
Personally for me it's either a 20K pound machine (haul on gooseneck ) or a 50K pound machine (haul on a 2 axle 18 wheeler trailer ). I'd even say bigger but it's hard to find someone with a 3 axle trailer to load a D-8 on. When it comes to a tree fight, the bigger the better.
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Lincoln, North DakotaHow about D4 cat
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Eastern IowaIn my experience, a smaller dozer will do most of what a bigger one will do, just take longer. Fuel is usually a wash, with a lean toward the bigger machines if anything. My dad always ran a D7E for years and years until we bought a Deere 750C over the winter. Smaller, but in our case more efficient. I can't believe we put up with clutch steering all those years!ynot
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West Central ILI had a Fiat Allis 21C for a few years and it would push a load, but it was just too big (lb ) for doing smooth dirt work. Downsized to a Deere 850 and really like it for general farm use. I do occasionally miss "Fat Alice" when pushing big trees though, I rarely had to dig around one. The small dozers will do about everything the bigger ones will, but it just takes more time and makes you a better dozer operator.
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Wallis, TXYour 850 Deere is probably 45-50K pounds? I had an 850C and borrowed an 850J couple years ago. It was a lot more machine than the older one and compared real close to my D-6R LGP.
I'll agree you can take out just about any tree with a small dozer, it is just too slow for me to dig out anything bigger than a good sized sapling.
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Pleasant garden ncI am an advocate of buying the biggest/heaviest one you can. I don't have a dozer but do have a old cat 977 loader. Weighs around . Haven't met a tree or fence line yet it won't dig up and push over. It's old and ugly and a little slow. Not a machine you go buy to make a living with but great for on the farm kinda stuff.mb
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Plainview, mnGreat thread. I've been thinking of getting something after grubbing out a pasture this summer with a skidsteer. Seems like there's a good project for a dozer most any yearfarmer
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